Women welfare secretaries not ready to wear khaki

 

Lokesh urges Govt to scrap GO 59

Women welfare secretaries not ready to wear khaki

Govt should respect job notification and job chart

Tughlaq decisions giving problems to all sections

AMARAVATI (prajaamaravati): TDP National General Secretary and MLC Nara Lokesh has demanded that the YSRCP Government immediately withdraw the GO No 59 and stop changing the women welfare secretaries of Grama and Ward Sachivalayas into women police constables.

Mr. Lokesh urged the Government not to play with the lives of the women welfare secretaries who were not at all interested to wear khaki dress at this juncture. They were assigned women welfare activities in their official job chart but now they were being asked to take up policing duties as well.

In a statement here on Sunday, Mr. Nara Lokesh advised the Chief Minister not to cause any embarrassment or harm to the women welfare secretaries with his 'Tughlaq decisions'. The GO No 59 issued on June 23 was totally thoughtless and it should be scrapped. The women secretaries have strongly objected to this in front of the superiors and top officers who were not trying to provide any solution till now.

Mr. Lokesh said that the women welfare secretaries had written to him, seeking their party support for starting an agitation against GO 59 on their behalf. The Government should favourably consider their demand for bringing their services under the women and child welfare department. The demand of the women welfare secretaries was justifiable since they were recruited for the purpose of women and child welfare activities only.

Strongly objecting to GO 59, Mr. Nara Lokesh said that the same examination was conducted to recruit women welfare secretaries under category-1 along with panchayat secretary, ward administrative secretary and education secretary. In the job chart, the women welfare secretaries were given duties of women development and empowerment. But now, GO 59 was brought to bring them under the home department.

Mr. Lokesh said that based on the options, over 15,000 were appointed as women welfare secretaries. Women aged above 42 years and differently abled women had joined these posts in the hope of no complications in future based on their job chart. It was unwise and illogical on the part of the Government to put them on policing duties now.

Mr. Nara Lokesh asserted that the YSRCP Government should make the women welfare secretaries an integral part of the women welfare department and accordingly they should be spared from the policing duties. The GO 59 should be scrapped as it was in violation of the job notification based on which the recruitment was taken up and completed.

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