State Government denied having committed any irregularity in the recruitment of lab assistants and technicians in Government colleges held this year as was alleged by the opposition.
In his reply to the call attention motion of Congress member Santosh Bafna during zero hour Monday, state higher education minister Ramvichar Netam told the house that appointment of lab technicians and lab assistants in government colleges was done as per the terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement and also as per the appointment rule of the education department in which total neutrality and transparency were adopted. In these appointments both merit list as well as reservation roster were followed.
According to the minister, advertisement for appointment on the posts of laboratory technicians and lab assistants vacant in government colleges was issued on 14 November 2012 in which it was clearly mentioned that selection for both posts will be done through written test.
Thereafter, on December 12, 2012 by amending the advertisement it was informed that for the districts of Bastar and Surguja regions district wise separate merit lists will be prepared while for the remaining districts an unified state level merit list will be prepared in which applicants of Bastar and Surguja will also be included.
Netam told the House that since the post of lab assistant is of class IV, therefore persons included in the merit list announced by the directorate of higher education were issued appointment order by the respective college principals.
According to departmental appointment rules, appointing authority for lab technicians is regional additional director. Therefore, persons who found a place in the merit list after the written exam were given appointment by additional directors as per the roster and after the due approval of Commissioner, Higher Education Department.
Netam also denied that the exams for these posts were organised by the respective college principals, instead it was organised by the higher education directorate through OMR system at 53 centres spread in all 27 districts of Chhattisgarh on January 13 this year, he informed the House and said that it was not true that there is disappointment among educated unemployed youth of the state.