Job potential created in TS has no parallel in the country
Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao
The Pioneer (31-12-2020)
It’s ridiculous to argue, as few have
been doing in the recent past, that the Telangana Government has not provided
enough of jobs. The last six and half years in the newly born Telangana State
the employment potential that has been created is of the order of a whooping
over 20 lakhs! These include jobs in the Government departments, Public Sector
Undertakings, Governmental organizations like Universities as well as huge
employment opportunities created in Information Technology and Industrial Units
established as part of TS-I Pass. The KCR Government at the same time is
equally a great employee friendly!
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao,
who spearheaded the separate hood movement with job opportunities as Tagline, from
the day one he assumed charge, as CM defined, designed and delivered his vision
and action plan to provide job opportunities. Today Telangana is ahead of all
the states in providing job opportunities to its unemployed youth through
varied sources going beyond the Government jobs.
Unfortunately, many have a wrong
notion that jobs means only jobs in the government. Undoubtedly jobs and job
opportunities provided by the Telangana Public Service Commission, in Public
Sector Undertakings like the RTC, Singareni, Police, Medical and Health,
Universities, several Corporations, Societies, Industries, IT sector, all would
also fall under this category. Hence it is imperative to note that employment
generated in the government departments as well as other than the government
departments directly or indirectly and the job creation thus happened should be
treated as the appointments.
Though the KCR government is
successful in creating jobs in the government, quasi government, private,
private and public sectors, a false campaign is unleashed on the actual data on
the job creation and employment generation that the government actually did.
Hence there is a need to clarify this and set the records straight. Necessity
has also arisen to state the policy decisions taken by the government and the measures
that it is taking as on date.
The newly formed Telangana State in
the past six and half years has employed more than 1.25 Lakh jobs in the government, State-owned public Sector
undertakings, non- government sector, either through TSPSC or directly in departments
like the Electricity, in Singareni collieries, Police department, Panchayat Raj
(Secretaries), teachers in the Residential Schools, in the universities,
Corporations and Societies and in Medical and Health etc.
A whopping 5.82 Lakhs jobs were given
in the IT sector thanks to the proper initiatives and polices taken by the
Telangana State government. Moreover, with the innovative TS-I Pass policy of
the government, more than 14,000 industries came up in the State. In these
industries direct and indirect employment is to the tune of 14.96 Lakh. If we
put all these together, about 21.50 Lakh unemployed in the state have been
gainfully employed or in the process of being employed. Telangana State thus
became a unique state, which created employment to such an extent in the
government and private sectors in the country. This is a record of sorts!
In the same process, with the
instructions from the CM, the official machinery is gearing up to recruit
50,000 more in the government. It is no exaggeration that the Telangana state
is only the state in the country which created largescale employment in all the
sectors, gave job security to the employees already working in the State and is
generating employment on a regular basis.
The state government is according high
priority to eradicate unemployment in the state and to fill up all the
vacancies in the government departments. The government has exclusively set up
Telangana State Public Service Commission. The government has appointed
academic scholar and an able administrator Prof Ghanta Chakrapani as the first
TSPSC Chairman and later appointed Sri D Krishna Reddy as the temporary
Chairman. The TSPSC gave notification to recruit 36665 posts by the end of
2020. As on date, 31072 posts were
filled up. Filling up of other vacancies are at different stages of
recruitment. Similarly, 3643 Residential School teachers’ posts were filled up.
The salaries of Special Officers
working in Kastur Ba Girls schools, CRTs have been increased. The government
issued orders to recruit 840 teaching and 588 non-teaching employees. The
government gave permission to recruit 377 employees in the urban residential
schools at all the district headquarters in all the 33 districts. Of this, 174
teaching and 203 non-teaching employees will be appointed.
10,477 dependent jobs for those
families working in the Singareni Collieries Company and 3148 external
recruitees in total 13625 jobs were created. Above all this, regular Bonus is
paid and increments are given. The government has taken up several programs for
the job security in the company. The government has decided to regularize 758
teachers working as contract teachers in the residential schools for the past
nine years and 18 teachers working on Adhoc basis. It was also decided to
upgrade 2488 Language Pandits, 1047 PETs as the School Assistants. In the
electricity department, it was decided to recruit 11,869 employees directly (in
Genco, Transco). Of this, 9289 (Genco, Transco) were recruited and 2552 jobs in
Transco were being considered.
As far as employee’s security is
concerned, the government has hiked the salaries of GHMC Sanitary workers,
drivers. At the time of formation of the State, municipal workers salary was
hiked. Anganwadi salaries were hiked twice by the state government. The CM
announced that salaries would be hiked for the helper representatives.
For the government employees, who
played a key role in the separate state hood movement, the government has
announced the PRC. Fitment to the tune of 43 percent of the basic salary was
given. The state government has also given a special increment to them for
making the then Sakala Janula Samme a grand success.
Salaries of the Indira Kranti Scheme
(IKS) employees and staff, Salaries of those working in SERP and national
employment guarantee schemes were also increased. The state government has
increased the salaried of 1703 employees working with 108 Ambulance service.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao,
as a new year’s gift, has decided to increase the salaries of all the
government employees, increase the age of superannuation and to recruit
employees in all the government departments. The CM announced that the salary
hike would benefit government employees, Grant-in Aid employees, work charged
employees, daily wages employees, fulltime contingent employees, part time
Contingent employees, Home Guards, Anganwadi workers, Contract employees, Out-sourcing
employees, Asha workers, Vidya Volunteers, SERP employees, people receiving the
honorariums, pensioners. All category of employees put together would be 9,36,976 and
the salary hike would be extended for all these employees, the CM said. All
this means that the job potential created in TS has no parallel in the country.
