AICC Spokesperson Demands for Increasing Age Limit by 10 years of Youth for All Job Notifications in Telangana

 Dr Sravan today dashed out a letter to the Chief Minister in which he urged to consider the rising unemployment in Telangana as a social emergency and appealed to him to constitute a special taskforce to address the sensitive issue with high priority to make sure our youth are protected from the desperate and frustrated conditions.

Dr Sravan stated that the majority of the unemployed youth are in deep distress, unable to face their parents, family and friends, unable to get married and settle in life and leading a miserable life and some of them are finally committing suicides with hopelessness. “It’s so pity that at least 50+ youth have committed suicide in the last seven years and 7 of them died in the last one week itself reflecting the agony and dejected conditions in the state”, he said.

 Dr Sravan pointed out that the government of Telangana had relaxed the upper age ceiling by 10 years through various GOs previously between 2015 and 2017 with which the candidates’ eligibility has gone up from 34 years to 44 years and that rational act certainly benefited some candidates in the past. But due to lack of big recruitments in the last 7 years, the youth got frustrated and left without any option other than to wait for a fresh notification.

 “We must always be cognizant of the contribution made by the students and unemployed graduates to the separate Telangana movement that brought us the freedom and a separate state. We shall not ignore the agenda of the Telangana Statehood movement, i.e., equal share of Water, Funds and Jobs – to all the citizens of our state”, Dr Sravan suggested.

He reiterated that to provide employment is not only an agenda of Telangana movement, but also the constitutional responsibility being the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Telangana. We must seriously recollect and remember the ferocious sacrifices made by our youth and emphatically respond to them and their problems. “Where there is will there is a way. It is high time that we keep all our politics aside and let us collectively figure out a way and a way forward to protect our youth … our own youth who struggled and sacrificed their lives for Telangana”, Dr Sravan asked.