The Hindu : JAC to agitate against bifurcation of Employment & Training dept.

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Tuesday, Jun 18, 2002

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

JAC to agitate against bifurcation of Employment & Training dept.

By Our Special Correspondent

Hyderabad June 17. The staff working in the Employment and Training department have strongly opposed the Government order issued on June 1 providing for bifurcation of the department, and announced an action programme for its immediate repeal.

The action programme which was announced at a press conference here on Monday by none other than a deputy director for Employment, M. Madan Mohan Rao, who is now elected chairman of the Joint Action Committee formed by seven service organisations for launching an agitation.

The programme would start with "protest telegrams'' to be sent on June 19 to the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, and the Chief Secretary, K. Swaminathan. The staff would follow this up with "wearing black badges'' while attending offices from June 21 and dharnas and submission of memoranda at Collectorates on June 25. If there was no response, they would intensify the stir, Mr. Rao said. The seven constituent organisations of the JAC are the Employment Wing of the Gazetted Officers' Association, the Training Wing of the Gazetted Officers' Association, AP ITI Employees' Association, TNGOs' Central Forum, Directorate Employees' Association, Rayalaseema Central Forum and Diploma Engineers' Association. N. Rajaiah, K. V. Chandrasekhar, N. Yugandhar, K. Ramamohana Rao, H. Lal Prakash and M. K. Rayudu were present at the press conference, representing these organisations. The GO separated the department into two entities as "Employment with Employment Exchanges at district level'' to be kept under the control of the Commissioner for Women Employment and Self-Employment heading the Employment Generation Mission and Training with industrial training institutes (ITIs) to kept with the Directorate of Technical Education.

The leaders feared that the GO might be the beginning of a programme to wind up the system of employment exchanges and put out several justification for continuing the two entities under one umbrella as was now, especially in the light of the fact that all such entities in all other States are working uniformly under the single Central policy of the Director-General of Employment and Training.

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