VIJAYAWADA: Job applicants under the dependent of the deceased quota for Food Corporation of India (FCI) staged a protest demanding that the 25,000 vacancies under Class III and IV be filled by giving priority to the dependents of deceased as per the provision.
According to state president for Deceased Employees Welfare Association M Gangadhara Rao, as many as 360 applicants had applied for job under dependent of deceased quota in Andhra Pradesh and around 1,500 applicants in the South Zone, which includes six southern states.
Gangadhar noted that since 1995, the Food Corporation of India has not been filling the vacancies due to which the families of those who died while in service have been suffering. He said the association had taken up the issue with Central Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan and Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatrya.
“The Food Corporation of India had recruited around 25 persons in the last three years and is keeping thousands of posts vacant. They are recruiting persons who had applied during the last two years keeping 15-year-old applications pending,” M Gangadhar said.
Gangadhar also said that they will be launching national level agitation and will march to the FCI headquarters in New Delhi to highlight their demand to provide jobs to the kin of those who died while in service.