The Hindu : `Government job scene bleak for SCs'

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Sunday, Jan 11, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

`Government job scene bleak for SCs'

HYDERABAD, JAN. 10. A negative employment situation was prevailing in the country regarding Government jobs and the passage was too narrow as far as the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes were concerned despite rule of reservation, according to figures given by the Union Minister of State for Urban Development, B. Dattatreya, and others at the national meeting on `Reservation policy and socio-economic and educational development of SCs' here on Saturday.

Mr. Dattatreya, said 3 per cent of Government staff were retiring every year but recruitment was made only to the extent of 1 per cent. The scenario of the SCs/STs was more distressing because only 2 per cent of them had benefited from reservations while 98 per cent remained far away from the purview. One solution offered by him was applying the reservation policy to the private sector also. The statistics provided by the National Forum for SC/ST Organisations, which organised the meeting, highlighted the `injustice' meted out to the SCs/STs with regard to Government jobs.

The presentation made by different SC leaders, including M. Jagannath, Telugu Desam MP and general secretary of the SC/ST MPs Forum, said benefit accruing to the SCs/STs was not much as was being understood by many.

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