PSC stopped recruitments, govt offering backdoor jobs: Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala has alleged that state public service commission has temporarily stopped recruitment process in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. During this time, the government is engaged in backdoor appointments and has thrown open contract appointments to consultancies, he said.
Chennithala said thousands of posts that felt vacant after retirements have not been reported to the PSC. Hundreds of rank lists got expired in the last four to six months. Only a few appointments were made from these rank lists. However, hundreds of contract and backdoor appointments took place during this time, the Congress leader said.
It is strange that PSC chairman has claimed that no contract appointments have taken place in government departments. The appointment of Swapna Suresh (to KSITIL) itself is a proof to the contract appointments being made by the LDF government, he added.
Former chief minister Oommen Chandy alleged that the government is not interested in making placements from the rank lists of the PSC and that was the reason why the government is not even ready to create new rank lists when several of the lists have expired.
During the tenure of the previous UDF government, there was a history of extending the tenure of the rank lists for helping the candidates. However, the LDF government had not shown any interest to support the thousands of the candidates who feature in the rank lists of the PSC. It is most unfortunate that in the last three months at least 200 rank lists have expired, Chandy said.