Youth attempts suicide over delayed govt job notifications in Dy CM Bhatti’s Madhira constituency

An unemployed youth from Khammam district attempted suicide by consuming poison, citing delays in Telangana government job notifications and lack of a job calendar. He left a suicide note appealing to the Deputy Chief Minister and other leaders to address the issue.

Khammam: Distressed over delay in government job notifications and lack of job calendar in Telangana, a youth allegedly attempted suicide in Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka’s Madhira constituency.

The youth Gaddam Venu Kumar, an unemployed youth from New Lakshmipuram village in Mudigonda mandal, was engaged in an outsourcing job in Mission Bhagiratha at Mutharam near the village. He reportedly consumed rat poison at his workplace on Saturday to end his life.

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He left a three-page suicide note addressed to the State government. In the letter he asked his friends and relatives to share the letter on social media so that it reaches the Deputy Chief Minister Vikramarka; Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. One of his friends found the letter posted on a local social media group and informed his parents, who shifted him to a private hospital in Khammam. His condition was said to be serious at present.

Venu Kumar in his suicide note stated that he resorted to the extreme step due to the delay in issuing Group exams notification, for which he had been preparing for the past five years, but was able to appear for the exams only once due to lack of a job calendar.

He said the youth in Telangana elected the Congress government as the party promised to issue a job calendar. But it has not happened. The present government filled up jobs for which notifications were issued by the previous government but failed to release a fresh job calendar.

If government job notifications were issued every year like UPSC, the youth need not be under distress like he did and they could appear for any of the tests, Venu Kumar said, adding that the recent police jobs notification failed to address the needs of the unemployed youth.

Venu Kumar said he had aspired to secure a government job since childhood and had prepared for the Groups exams. He further stated that his mother was mentally ill; did not own a house and an Indiramma house was not sanctioned to the family.

He appealed to the government to view the situation with a humanitarian perspective and urged Deputy Chief Minister Vikramarka to intervene in the issue.