BJP making country ‘Nirudyoga Bharat’: Harish Rao
Kothagudem: Telangana Health and Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday said that the BJP government was playing havoc with the lives of the unemployed youth and making the country ‘Nirudyoga Bharat’. He launched a scathing attack on BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and urged the latter to stop spreading lies against the State […]
Kothagudem: Telangana Health and Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday said that the BJP government was playing havoc with the lives of the unemployed youth and making the country ‘Nirudyoga Bharat’. He launched a scathing attack on BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and urged the latter to stop spreading lies against the State government.
Harish Rao challenged the BJP leader to stage the proposed ‘Million March’ in New Delhi but not in Hyderabad and added that the BJP should issue a ‘white paper’ with details on the jobs filled up by the Centre in the country. Harish Rao, along with Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar and MP Nama Nageswara Rao, inaugurated a 100-bed Maternal and Child Health Care Centre and inspected the works of Medical and Nursing College here on Saturday.
Speaking to the media, he noted that BJP promised to create two crore jobs a year if voted to power at the Centre in 2014 and demanded the party leaders to present the accounts of 14 crore jobs to the public.
Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) gave notification for 1,03,769 posts on February 23, 2019 and nearly one crore people applied for these posts but the Centre has not completed the test even after three years, he alleged and pointed to a report by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) which estimated that 5.3 crore people were out of work as of last December. While the national unemployment rate was 7.91 per cent, in Telangana it is only 2.2 per cent, he said and added that Telangana ranks fourth among the five States with the lowest unemployment rate.
According to the Centre’s calculations, there are 15.62 lakh vacancies in Central departments apart from two lakhs posts in Army and three lakhs in Railways. There are around 41,177 vacancies in public sector banks, he said and challenged the BJP leaders to stage a dharna in front of the house of Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding him to fill up the vacant posts.
BJP leaders were not able to digest the rapid development Telangana was witnessing under the rule of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The salaries of government employees in Telangana were higher than many other States, he said.
Telangana government has accorded highest priority to job creation and filling up of vacant posts. As many as 1.32 lakh jobs were offered to graduates through TSPSC, police, health, medical and electricity departments and in SCCL, he said and added that around 30,594 posts were filled up through TSPSC. He said 31,972 posts were filled by the Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board besides filling up 9,355 junior panchayat secretaries posts. As many as 12,500 jobs were offered by Singareni Calories Company Limited, 6,648 by power companies, 1,571 by DCCBs, 8,792 by Teacher Recruitment Test (TRT) and 87,500 jobs in Gurukuls, the Finance Minister explained.
Steps were being taken to fill up 50 to 60 thousand vacant posts soon, he said. The new zonal system was introduced to ensure 95 jobs to locals and issuing GO 317 was part of such an effort. The government was ready to identify vacant posts and issue job notifications after the reorganisation of local cadres was over, Harish Rao added.
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