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Government urged to fill SC, ST backlog posts

Staff Reporter

Only Government can help these sections, says former MLC

Bangalore:L. Hanumanthappa, writer and former MLC, has urged the State Government to fill the SC, ST backlog posts in all departments, pending for the past several years.

He was speaking at the Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations at the KSTDC auditorium at Khanija Bhavan here on Wednesday. As many as 17,000 backlog posts have been created in various departments in the past five years.

However, only 14,000 posts have been filled. Despite repeated requests, the governments had not taken measures to fill the posts, he added.

Posts should be filled on priority and promotion should be given to those belonging to SC, ST communities. In the past five years, the State Government had created only five lakh jobs and the private sector 15 lakh.

Jobs for SC, STs and policies to uplift the deprived sections of society could not be expected from the private sector. Only the Government could that, Mr. Hanumanthappa said.

He suggested that SC, ST unions adopt children of these communities. SC, ST associations should look after the education to the deprived children.

Minister for Social Welfare D. Sudhakar andMinister for Women and Child Development P.M. Narendra Swamy spoke.

KSTDC SC, ST Employees Welfare Association and KSTDC Employees' Union had organised the function.

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