Govt to review works done under President’s Rule

Vijay Deo Jha | RANCHI | Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Jharkhand Government on Friday said that it did not agree with all the decisions taken by the State administration during the President's Rule. The Government would review those decisions, said Deputy Chief Minister Raghuwar Das in a reply to JVM leader Pradeep Yadav's question.

"No work, actually, took place during 11 months of the President's Rule in Jharkhand and the State Government will review the decisions taken during this period," Das said.

Yadav, during the Question Hour, had raised the issue of the 'Technical Employment Exchange' in Jharkhand which he said "has failed to cater employment for the people who enrolled themselves with the exchange."

From 2002 to till now, around 9,352 people with technical qualifications had enrolled themselves with the exchange. In 2009, the State Government published only eight vacancies of the technical posts despite of the fact that a lot of technical posts are lying vacant.

Seeking action against the officials concerned, the JVM leader said that only two candidates were selected out of 237 eligible.

Das rose to defend his Cabinet colleague Umakant Rajak, who holds the portfolio of Labour and Employment, and shifted the blame of the failure of the department on the previous Government. He said that the State Government was not in agreement with the decisions taken by the then Government.

Das was challenged by Yadav, who wanted to know whether the State Government gave clean chit to the previous Government. "No, we cannot give clean chit to the President's Rule and want review," Das said.

In his reply Rajak informed the Assembly that the department was going to hold a two-days long job fair starting from March 27.

The Opposition also raised the issue of the para-medicals in Jharkhand who have resorted to hunger strike from the past four days. Congress MLA KN Tripathy wanted to know whether the State Government has any plan to regularise their service. Tripathy claimed that around 4000 post of the para-medics have been lying vacant in Jharkhand from the past eight years and the State Government has enrolled only 1,513 para-medics on the contractual basis.

In his reply, Health Minister Vaidyanath Ram expressed the willingness of the State Government to regularise their service. "The State Government is in the process to form a Para-Medical Council and file has been put before the Law department to obtain its view. Once the council is formed the state government will hold examination…to kick start the process of appointment," he said.

JVM MLA Nizamuddin Ansari and Vinod Singh of the CPI (ML) jointly raised the issue of the primary health-care centre of Balhata block under Giridih district which has been running without doctor and medical staff from the past couple of years. Speaker CP Singh intervened in the matter and asked the Government to seek status report from Giridih DC.