Uttrakhand : Dhami govt focuses on employment, transperant admn

The Uttarakhand government has decided to start a recruitment drive to fill up about 22,000 vacancies in various government departments in the next six months and increasing the monthly remuneration of guest teachers in schools from Rs15,000 to Rs 25,000. Cabinet minister Subodh Uniyal on Monday informed the press about the decision of he first Cabinet meeting which was chaired by the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, on Sunday in Dehradun. The cabinet also decided to form a committee to discuss the grade pay issue of police personnel and a sub-committee to look into the demands raised by UPNL workers to find a solution soon, said Uniyal and addded that the services of the contractual employees, which were stopped in 2018, would be resumed soon. The number of such employees is about 200. 

The minister also informed that the government has also decided to turn the defunct district employment exchange offices in each district into outsourcing agencies to provide employment opportunities to the youth of their respective districts on an outsourcing basis. “Considering the ongoing pandemic, there would be a concession in the age limit of one year for the applicants in the vacancies,” said Uniyal. The Dhami government also passed six resolutions to express their commitment towards the people of Uttarakhand.

“Those six resolutions include a corruption-free government, providing better employment and livelihood opportunities to youth, Dalit empowerment, effective management of Covid-19 pandemic, proper implementation of public welfare programmes and women empowerment,” said Uniyal. The Opposition Congress, however, termed the government decisions as “mere gimmick before the elections.”