The much hyped job calendar for the year 2024-2025 that was released by the Revanth Reddy government on Friday in the Legislative Assembly failed to create any enthusiasm among youth, who are waiting for jobs. It turned out to be in sharp contrast to what was promised, with no number of vacancies specified and with just dates of recruitment tests.
Deputy Chief Minister Bhattu Vikramarka released the job calendar in the Assembly on Friday detailing the ‘schedule’ for filling job vacancies. However, he did not mention the specific number of jobs to be filled.
This has triggered a strong protest from the main opposition BRS MLAs. They accused that the government of cheating the unemployed youth of Telangana. The BRS demanded a discussion on the subject, which the Speaker refused to entertain, again triggering protests from the Opposition benches.
Then BRS working president K T Rama Rao led his party MLAs in a walk out and staged a protest in front of the Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial at Gun Park opposite the Assembly. But even there, the police swooped down on them, forcibly bringing the protest to a stop and packing them off in vehicles.
KTR lamented that the Congress government for misleading the youth with the job calendar. He deplored that he was not given at least two minutes time to speak on Job Calender in the assembly. He ridiculed that a job calendar is like that of writing on two papers and called it a job calendar.
“Let even one unemployed person say that the Congress government gave at least one job in these eight months. All the BRS MLAs will resign then and there,” he said, also criticizing the government for playing a drama by presenting appointment letters for over 30,000 jobs, for which the procedures were actually completed by the previous BRS government.
Pointing out that employment for youth was a major demand during the Telangana Statehood agitation, he said the Congress had presented a ‘bogus’ job calendar to mislead the youth.
“Nine months after Rahul Gandhi promised two lakh jobs, not a single notification has been issued nor has any exam been conducted,” he said, calling the government’s assurances a betrayal.