Finance Minister Etela Rajender assured that the government would provide jobs to 1 lakh people after the completion of allocation of employees.
Finance Minister Etela Rajender on Monday assured in the Telangana Legislative Assembly that the State Government would provide jobs to one lakh people after the completion of allocation of the employees as per the Andhra Pradesh State Reorganisation Act.
The Finance Minister gave this statement in the House on a notice given by BJP floor leader Dr K Lakshman under Rule 344 on "measures taken to solve the unemployment problem by filling up the vacant posts in government and quasi-government organisations".
"The division of employees of united AP between the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh is still in process. The State Advisory Committee under the chairmanship of K Kamalanathan appointed by the Government of India is currently exercising itself on the subject. Pending final allocation, the Government of India has ordered 415,931 employees to serve the Government of Telangana. As part of this process, 107,744 vacancies have also been shown against the State of Telangana," he said.
However, the minister said that this was only a preliminary indication, as the final number of vacancies could change depending on the final allocation of the employees as per the existence of posts and options given by the employees.
With regard to the filling up of vacancies in quasi-government organisations, 89 companies/corporations were included in the 9th schedule to the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, and allocation of employees and vacancies in these institutions between the two successor States was pending, he said.
Etela said that orders had been issued on September 17 itself according permission to make temporary or ad-hoc appointments to those local, district, zonal and multi-zonal cadre posts which fell entirely in the State of Telangana and which did not come under the purview of the process of allocation of employees between the successor States.
Based on the immediate manpower requirement in certain departments, recruitment to certain categories of posts was being permitted, he said.
The minister also informed that the process to constitute the Telangana Public Service Commission had been initiated, and a notification was also issued on August 8.
He said that the appointment of a Chairman and the members, and the sanctions for other support staff for the TPSC were under examination.
"The government has taken a policy decision to regularise the services of the personnel working on contract in various government departments in Telangana State," he said, adding that a committee had already been set up to formulate a scheme for the same.
He said that certain vacancies allocated to Telangana would be filled up by regularising the services of contract personnel.
Replying to supplementary questions raised by members, Etela accused the then TDP Government of reducing jobs in the State by either closing or privatising the public sector companies like the Nizam's Sugar Factory, the Ramagundem Seed Factory and HMT among others.
He also accused the Centre of deliberately delaying the process of division of employees so as to create problems for the Telangana Government.
He said that the Telangana Government was facing an acute shortage of staff, and on an average one IAS officer was handling five departments.
He urged the unemployed youth and students not to get provoked by the Opposition Parties.
Participating in the debate, Dr Lakshman claimed that more than 11.68 unemployed youth in Telangana had been waiting to get proper jobs. He asked the government to disclose its plan to provide jobs to these unemployed youth in both the private and the public sectors.
He said that despite the announcement of the DSC 2008 results, recruitments had not been not done. Further, many students had spent Rs 50,000 - Rs 2 lakhs in private coaching centres to prepare for Group-I and Group-II posts, but due to the delay in recruitment, several aspirants were on the verge of crossing the age limit.
The BJP MLA said that Telangana was formed due to the struggle of the youth and students. However, the TRS Government was not showing any seriousness in providing them employment. (INN)