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Hundreds of unemployed youths, nether the aegis of Akhila Karnataka State Students Association (AKSSA), staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau present connected Friday raising superior interest implicit rising unemployment and irregularities successful the recruitment process.
AKSSA president Kantakumar urged the State authorities to instantly capable the 2.84 lakh vacant posts crossed assorted departments. He stated that the hold shows negligence astatine a clip erstwhile unemployment among educated younker is rising.
Mr. Kantakumar said that determination is simply a deficiency of transparency successful recruitment conducted done the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC). He urged that the caller appointments beryllium handed implicit for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe to guarantee fairness and accountability.
The protestors besides raised interest implicit the mediocre information of the precocious inaugurated Prabuddha Academy - a grooming centre established astatine a outgo of ₹30 crore to supply competitory exam coaching to unemployed students successful Kalaburagi.
Within months of its launch, parts of the cement extortion of the gathering collapsed and the parking shed besides caved successful showing gross negligence and substandard operation practices, they said.
The agitators powerfully criticised the State authorities for its “tokenism and mediocre execution” saying that alternatively of genuinely addressing unemployment, funds are being mismanaged successful poorly planned projects.
They besides demanded that the State authorities supply scholarships to students undergoing competitory exam grooming and guarantee transparent and merit-based recruitment.
Their request included establishing industries successful Kalaburagi to make sustainable employment.
They warned that if the State authorities fails to statesman the recruitment process immediately, AKSSA members volition intensify their protests State-wide.
