Jobless wait as state units dither

Departments do not give data in time to jobs panel

Government jobs have been eluding youth and unemployed even though the state has approved recruitment to fill 49,000 vacancies in the past three years. Only 15,000 vacancies have been filled through recruitment exams.

The government’s delay in taking decisions on crucial eligibility norms especially with regard to educational qualifications, syllabus and local-non local issues has slowed the recruitment process.

During his recent Independence Day speech, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had promised to fill over 86,000 vacancies this year, taking the total number of jobs to 1.12 lakh.

Mr Rao said that during the statehood agitation, the TRS had promised to provide one lakh jobs if the state was bifurcated; the government was now providing an additional 12,000 jobs.

Despite the slow progress in hiring people has created some amount of unrest among students and youth, who have spent huge sums on coaching for recruitment tests.

As per official estimates, over 25 lakh jobseekers are taking coaching for recruitment exams in the city.

After Mr Rao’s I-Day speech, Deputy Chief Minister and education minister Kadiam Srihari held a meeting with officials from the TS Public Service Commission (TSPSC), finance and education departments to draw up the roadmap to meet the recruitment target within a year.

Mr Srihari wondered why even 20,000 vacancies were not be filled when the government had approved nearly 50,000 jobs in three years.

Officials informed that though the government was approving new jobs the departments concerned were not placing the job indent with TSPSC to go ahead with recruitment drive for months. Even if the indent was placed, the departments were not providing eligibility norms and syllabus to the TSPSC in time.

Some departments were taking unilateral decisions on eligibility norms and syllabus based on which the TSPSC issues notifications. These notifications were being challenged in courts.

“CM has given us the task of filling up 1.12 lakh vacancies within a year. We have to rush to meet this target. We need to gear up all the departments and work in coordination with the TSPSC,” he said.

A coodination committee is being set up to oversee these issues and resolve the things on a war footing.