Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
The recruitment process for Scheduled Tribe will be done in a time-bound manner in order to ensure justice to the tribal community, said Cabinet Minister Deepak Kesarkar. He also said that the government employees recruited under Scheduled Tribe reservation but failed to submit caste validity certificates were not dismissed from the service.
He was replying to a Calling Attention Motion moved by Shiv Sena (UBT) Legislature Amshya Padvi. Padvi demanded immediate recruitment of the tribal candidates on vacant posts of State government.
There are 3,898 government employees in the State who failed to submit caste validity certificates. These employees are adjusted to ad-hoc posts. The recruitment process of the Scheduled Tribe category will be implemented as per the service entry rules by designing a time-bound programme, he assured.
The process of recruitment of the posts under Maharashtra Public Service Commission in the currently vacant posts will be completed by December 31, 2023 and the process of filling the posts in Group C and Group D will be completed by July 31, 2023, the minister informed.
Kesarkar said that it has been decided to give service related and retirement benefits to the ad-hoc employees. However, they will not get the benefit of promotion and job on compassionate ground policy.
The minister also informed that government officials and employees working in ad-hoc class would be given one day technical break after a period of 11 months till their retirement.
MLCs Sachin Ahir, Mahadev Jankar, Ramesh Patil, Jayant Patil, Gopichand Padalkar, Abhijeet Wanjari, Praveen Datke also took part in the discussion.
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