Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has said that, if voted to power in next elections, the Congress government will fill one-lakh vacancies in the public sector and create another one-lakh jobs through self-employment schemes within a year after coming to power.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday along with senior party leaders M. Bhatti Vikramarka, V. Hanmantha Rao and others, he also stated that their government would fill over 20,000 teacher posts by conducting a mega District Selection Committee (DSC) test. He alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao betrayed the unemployed youth by not filling one-lakh vacancies in the government after after making a pre-poll promise and also not filling the vacant teacher posts during the last four-and-a-half years.
Although the TRS government had left the unemployed youth a disappointed lot, it however had ensured jobs for several family members of the Chief Minister. He pointed out that the Chandrasekhar Rao Government could fill only 11,000 out of about 2.5 lakh vacancies existing in the State government, including nearly 300 posts in Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) itself, the agency which conducts the recruitment process.
Besides, a large number of SC, ST backlog posts and thousands of teacher posts remain vacant in spite of repeated pleas of the unemployed youth, Mr. Reddy said, and announced that the Congress government would also provide ₹3,000 monthly allowance to about 10 lakh jobless youth.
He pointed out that Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao had raised questions and expressed doubts over the unemployment allowance in the past but now with the elections round the corner he is trying to deceived the youth again by stating that his government would consider it.
Stating that creation of jobs would be among the top priorities of the Congress government, Mr. Reddy pointed out that in spite of assuring lakhs of jobs with the help of Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR) project from the floor of the Assembly twice in 2014 and 2015, the TRS Government forgot pursuing it with the Centre. It had also failed in realising the State Reorgnisation Act promises of railway coach factory at Kazipet and a steel plant at Bayyaram.
The TPCC felt that instead of helping contractors by taking up projects with huge costs, Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao should have given unemployment allowance to the youth with the high increase of revenue in the State as being claimed by his government.