Assam Job Mela: 2 Employment Exchange Officers Placed Under Suspension
The Assam government has placed two officers of Employment Exchange of Kamrup (M) under suspension as per the direction of Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary. The officers have been placed under suspension for mismanagement of job fairs held in various districts of Assam on December 23.
T. Doungel, Joint Director, Employment and Lipika Datta, Assistant Director of Employment, District Employment Exchange, Guwahati have been placed under suspension for improper planning, mismanagement and gross negligence of duty.
The job mela has been held across districts in Assam under the aegis of the skill, employment and entrepreneurship department. It is scheduled to conclude on December 28.
Reacting to questions posed by media persons, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma informed that he asked the state skill, employment and entrepreneurship minister that advertisements should have been placed in newspapers informing aspirants that the jobs were relating to private companies and not in government departments.
"The job mela could have been held in virtual mode. Such mismanagement and improper planning is certainly uncalled for and unfair to the several job aspirants who had come to the employment exchange. I have directed the minister to take requisite action against the officials who were responsible for such mismanagement," Sarma said.
According to reports, many "government job" aspirants had come to the district employment exchange campus at Rehabari on Thursday only to return disappointed after finding out that the posts were related to private companies.
