Hyderabad Police take unemployed youths into preventive custody

In Hyderabad, police took several unemployed youths into preventive custody ahead of a ‘Chalo Assembly’ protest over delayed recruitment notifications. They demand 2 lakh promised jobs, a job calendar, and Rs 4,000 monthly financial support

Hyderabad: Several unemployed youths were taken into preventive custody ahead of their ‘Chalo Assembly’, a protest march, over delay in releasing the recruitment notifications by the Telangana Congress government, here on Thursday.

Sensing trouble from the unemployed, police barged into the hostels’ rooms and libraries in the city and detained several youths on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.

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An uneasy calm prevailed at City Central Library in Chikkadpally as a large number of police personnel turned to detain unemployed.  Arguments ensued as police as the latter forcefully picked them up.

One of the youths argued with the police, saying that they were just unemployed youth who had been asking for their rightful jobs and not burglars. He questioned why the police were taking them into custody in the middle of the night as though they were criminals.

The unemployed youth have been demanding the government to honor its promise of notifications for two lakh vacancies. They also demanded the government to roll out a job calendar as assured during the assembly elections. Further, they wanted financial assistance of Rs.4,000 per month, which was promised during the assembly elections, be given to the unemployed until they get jobs.

Meanwhile, the government continued to deceive the unemployed youth with its hollow promises. Only 16,978 posts have been filled by the government in more than two years of its rule as against the promise of filling up two lakh vacancies within one in power.

Since coming into power, the government completed a recruitment process to 67,763 vacancies. Of the total filled, notifications to 50,785 vacancies were issued during the previous BRS government.