TS to fill govt. vacancies in 4 to 5 months: CM

Announces relaxation of five years in the age limit of unemployed qualified youth. He blamed the previous governments for incomplete teachers’ recruitment dating back to DSC 1985 and said people knew who was responsible for it and who had introduced the contract system of employment.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced in the Assembly on Monday that the government would initiate the process for filling 1,07,744 vacancies in various departments in the next 4-5 months. The Telangana State Public Service Commission will also be in place by that time, he said.

He also announced relaxation of five years in the age limit of the unemployed qualified youth, in lieu of their contribution to the movement for separate statehood. The exercise would, however, be taken up subject to the completion of division of State-cadre employees by the Kamalanathan Committee.

Otherwise, there will be no clarity on the exact number of vacancies in various departments, the Chief Minister said, adding that rationalisation of staff was also required in several departments. The exercise could reduce staff in some departments while it could be increased in some others, he noted.

Intervening in the discussion on the issue of unemployment raised under Rule 344 by BJP members K. Laxman and four others, Mr. Rao said there was lack of clarity in case of corporations/entities mentioned in Schedule IX of the A.P. Reorganisation Act as the Sheila Bhide Committee was in the process of dividing them.

Reiterating that the State government was committed to regularising the service of eligible contract employees as promised before the elections, the Chief Minister said a committee led by the Chief Secretary was formulating guidelines for the purpose. He stated that in the case of absorbing contract employees, numbering about 25,000 in Telangana, the roster and reservation system would be followed.

Mr. Rao said the Chief Secretary-led committee was examining the grounds on which the contract employees were recruited and clarity had emerged on over 19,000 staff already. In all, about 21,000 of them could be regularised, he told the House. Regarding the staff in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, anganwadi workers and others, he said they were programme-specific staff and their employment would go when schemes were closed.

He blamed the previous governments for incomplete teachers’ recruitment dating back to DSC 1985 and said people knew who was responsible for it and who had introduced the contract system of employment. “Giving jobs to all and regularising the staff of all schemes is not possible even if Mr. Laxman becomes the Chief Minister,” Mr. Rao said.