Job wait for 12 years in KBK!!!

Tathya.in, Nov 13, 2008
Bhawanipatna:13/November/2008

Every body from top to bottom is shedding crocodile tears for KBK.

But when it comes to fulfill basic needs, no body bothers.

KBK is the most backward area of the state and at least 50,000 of posts are lying vacant in these districts.

But for years together these vacancies are not filled up, thanks to the whims and fancies of bureaucracy,which play havoc on the lives of common men.

Sample the case.

In the year 1996,the Kalahandi District Administration notified for recruitment of Junior Clerks to be filled up.

More than 1000 young aspirants applied for 60 posts notified.

However process was delayed and for 3 years it was not taken up.

However in 1999,Satyabrat Sahu, the then Collector of Kalahandi found that there is large scale vacancies and those are needs to be filled up.

Mr. Sahu, known for his honesty and sincerity organized the recruitment process in most transparent manner.

Honest IAS officers like present Director Agriculture Arabinda Padhi, who was then the Sub Collector and Director Mission Sakti Usha Padhi, the then APD was given charge of recruitment process.

After the written tests, successful candidates were invited for type test.

Entire process was transparent and done in totally clean manner, said a senior IAS officer involved in the process.

The list was finalized and all on a sudden it was alleged that there are irregularities in the recruitment.

The then RDC, Jagadananda Panda asked the Kalahandi District Administration to stop the recruitment process until further orders.

Without verifying details Mr.Panda issued sweeping orders and never bothered to visit the district to find out the real cause of the allegations.

He allegedly issued the orders on the complaints of a frustrated Congress leader.

There after no body bothered about the tribal boys and girls, who with high expectations wait for a job in the government.

Till date the RDC order stands as it is and the recruitment process yet to be finalized

The recruitment process is still kept in abeyance, revealed a case record.

In absence of a green signal from the authorities they are not opening the files and all the doucments are left sealed in Treasury, said the source.

How ever in 2000 with the blanket ban order on recruitment by the State Government the fate was sealed for the young candidates.

A petitioner has filed a case in the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) and the Court has issued notice to the Kalahandi District Administration over the issue.

This is how mandarins are playing with the lives of innocent people of KBK, said the advocate, who is fighting the case.