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(Dr Daljit S Cheema says even though people were blockading govt offices, no action was being taken to fill vacancies, leave alone create new jobs for youth)
Chandigarh, August 4 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann to immediately announce a massive recruitment drive to fill all vacant posts in the health and education sector on a priority basis besides filling vacancies in other departments also to ensure provision of efficient services to the people. It said the youth were looking towards its promise to create more government jobs, but the AAP government was not even filling vacant posts and in some cases had even abolished vacant posts.
Expressing shock at the manner in which health and education departments had been effected due to mass exodus of senior doctors as well as huge backlog of vacancies in government schools, senior SAD leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said “today’s blockade of the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in Lehragaga is also reflective to the deep angst amongst the people at the government’s failure to run government schools efficiently”. He said the blockade of the SDM office was preceded by a four day long dharna demanding transfer of a teacher to a village school which fell on deaf ears, forcing people to block the SDM’s office today.
Dr Daljit Cheema said while the government had failed to fill up vacant posts and provide jobs to youth as promised, AAP ministers and legislators were raiding hospitals and schools to garner cheap publicity which had upset the chain of command and was even leading to the collapse of the health and education sector. He said chief minister Bhagwant Mann had also failed to take remedial steps and had not taken any action against health minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra for misbehaving with Baba Farid University vice chancellor Dr Raj Bahadur. Dr Cheema also rubbished the chief minister’s recent plea to legislators not to confront government officers, saying it would not have any effect until and unless an example was set by sacking health minister Chetan Jauramajra.
Asking the chief minister to give a unilateral assurance to doctors and teachers assuring them that they would not be harassed by AAP legislators while performing their official duties, Dr Cheema also asked the chief minister to release adequate funds to the health and education department immediately. “Patients have been regularly complaining about lack of medicines and even facilities for medical tests in government hospitals besides lack of teachers and even textbooks in government schools. The AAP government had come to power with the promise to radically improve the health and education department but failed abysmally in this task”. EOM
