Hyderabad: The Telangana government has received flak from students over it’s decision to regularise the contract staff. Telangana students, who had taken an active part in the T statehood movement and were hoping for more job opportunities in the new state, feel cheated now.
Osmania University, which had witnessed intense agitations demanding T-state since 2009, has now become the centre for protests against the regularisation of contract staff.
Hundreds of students have been holding rallies on the campus since the Cabinet decision came out on July 16. Moreover, the agitations are slowly spreading to other Telangana varsities, namely Kakatiya, Telangana, Palamuru, Satavahana and Mahatma Gandhi.
There is deep unrest among students as no major recruitment exams have been conducted since July last year, when the UPA government at the Centre had decided in favour of the bifurcation.
At that time, the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission in the undivided state had completely stalled the recruitment process as there was no response from the then Kiran Kumar Reddy government about whether to go ahead with the exams or not.
Thousands of students were hoping to land government jobs and had incurred expenditure towards coaching and exam preparations.
Under such circumstances, the announcement by the Telangana government over regularising contract staff led to panic among students. They fear that they would not get government jobs as the vacancies will be occupied by the contract staff.
