An air of restiveness is sweeping through the universities of Telangana with the government’s protracted silence on contract recruitment and job notification through the Telangana Public Service Commission.
From the time when the TRS took charge of the state, scores of student groups have petitioned the government asking for issuance of recruitment notification, besides demanding that it does not keep its pre-poll vow of regularizing contract employees.
The TRS, which pull out flak from students before elections for its stand on contract employees, is yet to make a step in the matter.
But, with the recent renewal of contracts of contract lecturers in government intermediate and degree colleges, students, who have also knocked the door of justice, say they would take up truncheon against the government if it regularised the contract employees.
A research scholar from Osmania University, Govind Reddy said, “One of the major grouses with the previous governments was not providing Telangana youth with enough job opportunities. With the creation of the new state, the government should address this gap. But it is dillydallying on issuing the notification for direct recruitment through PSC”.
He alleged that the contract recruitment system was being use wrongly and many persons without qualifications were cornering jobs in colleges and universities.
They also trapped KCR when he was passing through Osmania University in the past when he was not elected to power, when KCR reportedly told them he would think about their concerns if elected.
“We have been making repeated representations to the government. We are seeking to meet the chief minister to ask for issuance of recruitment notification. If the government regularises contract employees, we will agitate,” said Venketesh Goud of the state BC research scholar association.
According to Goud, there are more than 10 lakh jobless youth in Telangana who are keenly awaiting government recruitment. “The last notification from the state public service commission was in 2008,” he said.