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Youth Cong. men ransack APPSC office

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD March 5. Youth Congress workers ransacked the office of the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission and gheraoed the Chairman, G. Suryanarayana, on Wednesday to protest against "the failure'' of the Government to provide jobs to youth.

The Youth Congress activists led by the State unit president, T. Venkat Rao, took out a protest rally from Gandhi Bhavan and stormed the APPSC Chairman's office. The Chairman and the staff, who were caught unawares, tried in vain to convince the Youth Congress activists that they were not authorities concerned to give them any assurance.

Mr. Rao said that 32 lakh Government jobs had been lying vacant but no recruitment had been done in the last seven years by the Government.

While no new industrial units had been set up, 5,000 existing units had been closed down. Despite the claims of the Government, no investments were made in the State by the NRIs to generate employment.

The drought made the situation worse and agricultural labour started migrating in search of livelihood.

The Government had utterly failed in generating employment but was giving sanction to thousands of engineering colleges. What was the logic in producing unemployed graduates, he asked. As the Government was not in a position to provide jobs, it should admit so and close down APPSC and employment exchanges instead of spending crores of rupees on them.

The Youth Congress workers also demanded resignation of

APPSC Chairman. Police who came much later, dispersed the mob after they had created enough ruckus and raised slogans against the Chief Minister and the Government.

Later, Mr. Suryanarayana told mediapersons it was for people to decide whether the action of the Youth Congress was justified. He clarified that the Commission had lot of work like general recruitment, junior lecturers recruitment, CAS interviews for degree and senior scale cadre lecturers, departmental examinations held twice in a year with not less than 25,000 candidates appearing and language test for IAS and IPS candidates. In fact, thousands had been recruited in the last two to three years.

A notification for Group-II service was due for issuance in a couple of days. "How could the Commission promise jobs? We are here to recruit good people for the Government,'' he said.

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