Speedy relief for kin of deceased govt staffers after collector steps in

Guntur: Bringing transparency and human touch to recruitments on compassionate grounds, district collector Vivek Yadav has set timelines to clear pending applications. The district administration has provided employment to the kin of 56 deceased government employees in a span of just six months, adhering to the instructions issued by Yadav.
Previously, the kin of employees who had died in service would have to wait several years and in some cases, decades, to get relief, particularly for employment under compassionate grounds.
Soon after taking reins of the district administration, Yadav directed that no applicant seeking employment under compassionate grounds should be kept waiting for a long time. He directed the joint collectors, RDOs and all heads of departments of district wings to process these applications on a war footing basis. “Losing a family member is always a devastating experience. It is not fair on our part to leave the families of our own colleagues in lurch and make them roam around offices to get relief,” Yadav said.
Although it is not possible to compensate for the loss of a family member, providing relief by way of giving employment to those eligible in the family would help the deceased’s kin, Yadav had advised officials at review meetings. He had also referred to chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s instructions on the issue.
The collector’s special focus on the issue set the ball rolling as the departments routed files for granting appointment to 56 members of deceased employees since last February. “Twenty-three candidates have been appointed as junior assistants, 19 posted as typists and 14 as office subordinates in revenue, commercial taxes, police, registration, audit, agriculture, survey and forest departments in the last six months,” said a senior official. Employment is also being provided to the kin of victims in SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act cases.
As many as 21 people were issued appointment orders on Thursday, said joint collector (welfare) K Sridhar Reddy. AP NGOs leader B Srinivasa Rao thanked Vivek Yadav for his humanitarian gesture.