Shillong, August 30: Failure to stipulate the age for the post of State Mission Director for State Resources for Women (SMDSRW) in an advertisement published two months ago has drawn the ire of the Civil Society Women Organisation (CSWO) as it suspects that the department is planning to accommodate the additional director L Jyrwa who retired just after the advertisement was published.
The CSWO has threatened to organize all the “educated unemployed youths” of the state and take them out on to the street to protest against the government’s continued propensity of appointing retired government officials when there are lots of educated unemployed youths hankering for jobs.
The issue of reappointing retired government officials by the government had recently drawn flak from the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) and the Federation of Khasi Jaintia Garo People’s (FKJGP) for reappointing W Kharmalki as State Sports Council chief engineer when he had already retired from government service. Both the ngos locked the office of the chief engineer when the government refused to listen to their demand of removing Kharmalki from the post.
CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing told reporters Thursday that the government’s inclination of accommodating retired government officials to different post is denying the educated unemployed youth of opportunity to be employed. She said the CSWO will not allow such tendency to pervade the job market.
Kharshiing revealed that as per the guidelines from Government of India, the age limit for the said post is 35 years. She, however, claimed that the Social Welfare department principal secretary had written to Delhi to relax the norms on the plea “that there are no suitable candidate for the said post.” She informed this was done just before Jyrwa retired.-By
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