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Student organisations threaten stir

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD May 29. Youth and student organisations of Left parties on Thursday threatened to launch an agitation if the State Government fails to modify the "anti-unemployed'' provisions of the proposed State Development Service (SDS).

The leaders of these organisations told presspersons that the SDS was a gimmick aimed at misleading the unemployed youth and diverting their attention from the deep frustration they find themselves in with growing unemployment. Instead of filling up the 2.50 lakh vacancies, the Government is coming up with such proposals to cause confusion among the unemployed. The SDS appears to be a ruse to reduce the number of jobs in Government departments, on instructions from the World Bank.

The leaders who addressed the press conference included, S. Balamallesh of State All India Youth Federation, P. V. Srinivas of Democratic Youth Federation of India, N. Nageswara Rao of Progressive Youth League, L. Shravan Kumar of AISF and M. Srinivas of PDSU. Before launching the date for agitation, they decided to submit memoranda to the Governor, S.S. Barnala, and the Finance Minister, Y. Ramakrishnudu.

They said the SDS would only help in aggravating unemployment, with the upper age limit reduced to 28, raising of the basic qualification to post-graduation and insistence on having an additional technical qualification. Even premier civil services like IAS and IPS did not have such stringent conditions, they added. They demanded that the upper age limit be kept on a par with the AP Public Service Commission's Group I examination and include SDS in the same notification. They said of the 33 lakhs on the Government's employment register, 18.5 lakhs did not have any technical qualifications. How can the Government then insist on all candidates having such qualifications?

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