CM delaying promotions, recruitment for SC, ST employees: BSP leader
The delay in providing promotions to SC/STs exposed Siddaramaiah's commitment to the empowerment of Dalits, he told reporters. He said thousands of SC/ST employees working in various departments of the govt, including PWD, education, forest, excise, power, and agriculture, are waiting for their promotions under the roster system.
The state govt has also stopped all recruitments of SC/STs until the ongoing census of the Scheduled Caste population is completed and a report is submitted on the Justice Nagamohan Das Commission of internal reservation for Dalits.
The delay in promotions and recruitments of SC/STs has demoralised them in discharging their duties. This has impacted the administration of the state, he charged.
Even though the then chairman of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Committee of the State Legislative Council, PM Narendra Swamy, recommended the state govt extend promotions to over 80 lecturers belonging to SC/STs as principals of state PU colleges in 2016, the successive govt withheld the promotions to 80 SC/ST lecturers in the pre-university education department from 2016, he accused.
Even promotions of over 500 assistant executive engineers were withheld in the power department headed by energy minister KJ George, who is one of the close confidantes of Siddaramaiah, Krishnamurthy contended.
He criticised the SC/ST ministers in the Siddaramaiah cabinet, mainly HC Mahadevappa, KH Muniyappa, Satish Jharkiholi, KN Rajanna, and Priyank Kharge, for not raising their voices against their govt over the issue of providing promotions to SC/ST govt employees.
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