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| Monday, 13 September 2004 |
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Nawalapitiya group correspondent A group of unemployed graduates, 21 in number, in the Pasbage Korale Pradeshiya Sabha area in the Nawalapitiya electorate, on their way to Dharmaraja College auditorium to receive their letters of appointment told the Daily News that they all were grateful to the present government for offering them employment opportunities. A 29 year old female graduate said that she had obtained a 2nd class upper division pass at the final test and she was B.A. (Hon.) qualified. Thereafter she read for M.Phil. (Master of Philosophy) and got through it. With both degree certificates she had gone to a Minister in the former govt. with her father who was well-known to the Minister seeking a job. The request was flatly turned down. When she asked for a Peon Post in one of his offices, the said Minister put a horse laugh and turned her away. She is highly appreciative of the steps taken by the present Govt. to provide job opportunities for all unemployed graduates. Another such graduate told this correspondent that he went to meet a Provincial Councillor who was holding a high post in the Plantation Ministry. "I went to meet the PC member with a close friend of his who was also holding a high post in the political field. I was introduced to the PC member by my political friend and he explained my position. After listening to my grievances he asked me to go through the Govt. Gazette every week and send in my applications for suitable vacancies as if I did not know it earlier. He must have thought that I was a graduate who did not know even that much. Later I came to know that he had got through Std. 8 at the school." Another graduate observed that he went to meet a certain Minister in the former Govt. and begged for a clerical post in an office scheduled to be opened by him shortly in his electorate. But the Minister had said that there were no vacancies. Sometime later he had come to know about eight new clerks, some from Badulla, had been recruited. But they were not graduates. They had been in a position to satisfy the middleman by offering a handsome gratification, he alleged. Almost all of them stated that "Tharuna Aruna" and "Rekiya Piyasa" two institutions opened by the former Govt. to find jobs for unemployed graduates were mere frauds. One of them had got registered in June 2003 and up to date he had not received his registration number. On the other hand a few hundred torchbearers of the ministers had got into state banks as clerks while some others had got teaching appointments. But the majority of them were just idling up to date without jobs. Anyway they all agreed that they had a new ray of hope in their lives. Some of them had been seeking jobs for six years after graduating themselves. Innocent parents of some of the girls were carrying their new born children in their laps. Yet they looked highly satisfied with the new job opportunity given to their children. |
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