BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Scheduled Caste-Scheduled Tribe Youth and Students Council at a Press meet here on Sunday alleged that the SC and ST assistant engineers working in different departments of the State Government are being neglected by some vested officers of Water Resource Department. They decided to file criminal case against WR officials for violating reservation law.
The members of the SC-ST youth council said the engineers recruited through OPSC on regular mode since 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 were not enlisted in the cadre list of Assistant Engineers with ill-intention. The officials taking bribe from general category validated engineers intentionally to debar the SC and STs from their genuine claim of promotion since long, they added.
President of the council Haldhar Sethy alleged that the officials of WR Department by changing the SC/ST officials from establishment wing intentionally held up the process of fresh recruitment of contractual engineers for remaining backlog vacancies out of the select list so prepared in the year 2009, even after the order of the Chief Minister.
The council condemned that the anti - SC/ST attitude of the officials of WR Department who are regularly violating the reservation law as well as the service law meant for Odisha. The council has also drawn the attention of the National Commission for SC/ST who has responded the cause proposing state review meeting in the 1st week of March this year.
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