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West Bengal to open up recruitment

Kolkata: Barely six months before the Assembly elections in West Bengal, veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Wednesday said the State Government would start fresh recruitment.

"About 80,000 posts are lying vacant following the retirement of State Government employees. Two or three days back I was informed that the State Government has lifted the ban and will make fresh recruitment, including teachers," Mr. Basu told a public meeting on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the State co-ordination committee of State Government employees' organisations.

He said, "We have been in power for about 30 years and our Government could not implement its programmes without the help of its employees. The coordination committee has given the Left Front Government full support since 1977 when it came to power."

Mr. Basu said the Left Front Government had also given the State Government employees the right to strike and told them not to part with this right under any circumstances.

He said that since the time of the fifth Left Front, the State Government was facing an acute financial crisis, though it was not because of its fault.

The veteran leader exhorted his partymen to go to the people and listen to criticism. "Those who voted against us are not our enemy. There are many poor people also. If we have failed to fulfil all our promises, we have to say why it was not possible."

On the State's industrial scenario, Mr. Basu said West Bengal had lagged behind due to the Centre's policy of freight equalisation and license raj. — PTI

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