Stage “million march” in front of PM’s residence: Harish tells Bandi

Kothagudem: Health and Finance Minister T Harish Rao tore into BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and told the latter to stop spreading lies against the State government. The minister challenged the BJP leader to stage the proposed ‘Million March’ in New Delhi but not in Hyderabad. The BJP should issue a ‘Whitepaper’ with details […]

Kothagudem: Health and Finance Minister T Harish Rao tore into BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and told the latter to stop spreading lies against the State government. The minister challenged the BJP leader to stage the proposed ‘Million March’ in New Delhi but not in Hyderabad. The BJP should issue a ‘Whitepaper’ 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-bedded 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 and that its leaders should present the accounts for 14 crore jobs offered in the last seven years. Railway Recruitment Board gave notification for 1,03,769 posts on February 23, 2019 and nearly one crore unemployed youth applied and the Centre had not completed the test even after three years. Harish Rao alleged that the BJP government was playing havoc with the lives of the unemployed youth and making the country ‘Nirudyoga Bharat’. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) recently estimated that 5.3 crore people were out of work as of last December.

The CMIE has made it clear that India needs to create an additional 18.75 crore jobs if it wants to meet the global employment rate standards. The national unemployment was 7.91 percent while in Telangana it was only 2.2 percent. Telangana ranks fourth among the five states with the lowest unemployment rate. According to the Centre’s calculations, there were 15. 62 lakh vacancies in Central departments. Two lakhs posts in Army and three lakhs in Railways were vacant. There were around 41,177 vacancies in public sector banks, Harish Rao said while challenging 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 Chandrashekha Rao, The salaries of government employees in Telangana were higher than in many other states. The Centre has already flagged the sale of several public sector companies to the private sector making thousands of employees jobless. The BJP leaders should answer to the fact that nearly 2.5 lakh people had lost their jobs due to the sale of state-owned enterprises by the Centre.

Telangana government has highest priority to job creation and filling up vacant posts. As many as 1.32 lakh jobs were offered to graduates through TSPSC, police, health, medical and electricity departments and in SCCL. The government had filled up around 30,594 posts through the TSPSC alone and 31,972 posts 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, 1571 by DCCBs, 8792 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. The new zonal system was introduced to ensure 95 jobs to locals and issuing the 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 said.

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