Unemployed engg stage dharna at Law Min’s house

BHUBANESWAR: Unemployed diploma engineers staged dharna in front of the Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty on Sunday protesting the Government notification of December 29, 2012 which announced that the vacancies of junior engineer posts arising in different departments would henceforth be filled up on the basis of recommendations made by the State Staff Selection Board.

The unemployed engineers requested the Minister to roll back the decision of abolishing the panel which would ruin the job prospects of thousands of meritorious students who have been waiting in the merit list since 1996.     

“We will inform the Chief Minister’s office about the demands of the engineers. A discussion will be held to examine the requests of the engineers to re-establish the panel,” said Minister Mohanty.

More than ten thousand unemployed diploma engineers in the State started agitating against the State Government for the December 29 notification to fill up the junior engineer posts by the State Staff Selection Board on the basis of a merit list prepared by the Board after conducting a written test and considering the career marks. This means that the panel list which till date was the only feeder to these posts since 1970 would be overlooked.