FUTA demands: Communiques with the MOHE

• The FUTA letter to the MOHE on 30/01/2012 demanding a response on the non-fulfillment of the FUTA demands.
• The response of the MOHE on 06/03/2012. 

Unemployed Graduates accuse govt. of favouritism

March 19, 2012, 11:06 pm

by Dasun Edirisinghe, The Island.

 Unemployed Graduates, who protested in demand for public sector jobs, now claim that the government was providing jobs to certain graduates without calling for applications.

Spokesman of the Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates (CAUG) Dhammika Munasinghe told The Island that the government provided jobs, without calling for applications, to graduates who were their henchmen in the Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Anuradhapura, Kandy and Moneragala Districts.

He said that graduates who passed out several years ago were still waiting for employments while the recently passed out graduates received employment opportunities.

"Most of them worked for the UPFA during the campaign for the recent elections," Munasinghe said adding that they got jobs skipping the waiting list.

The CAUG complained to the Human Right Commission, too, against the provision of jobs without a proper list and asked that the appointments, given through political influence, be cancelled, he said.

The JVP rebels–led unionist said that government politicians forced the unemployed graduates in the Northern and Eastern Provinces to work with the government’s political campaign to obtain employment.

Munasinghe said that there were about 5,000 unemployed graduates in the country when incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over.

Over the past six years, the number of unemployed graduates had since risen to 40,000.

The government completely forgot the issue in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 budgets, he said.