There is no freeze on recruitment: CM

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 17. The Chief Minister, Mr. A.K. Antony, told the Assembly today that the Government had not issued any order banning fresh recruitment to the State service.

Responding to a calling attention motion by Mr. M.V. Jayarajan (CPI-M), the Chief Minister said the Government had also not taken any decision on raising the retirement age of Government employees.

The State Planning Board, he said, had found that there were around 60,000 excess staff in Government service and all that the Government had done was to enforce a ban on creation of new posts. In fact, heads of departments have been asked to fill all existing vacancies. Failure to report vacancies and fill existing vacancies would be viewed seriously, he said.

Earlier, Mr. Jayarajan pointed out that the number of educated unemployed in the live rolls of employment exchanges had gone up to 43 lakhs as on August 1, 2001. He also barged into the well of the House to pass on to the Chief Minister proof of what he termed the Government's failure to recruit even those who had been issued advice memo.

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