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Govt blinks, cancels SI recruitment tests

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Govt blinks, cancels SI recruitment tests
Govt blinks, cancels SI recruitment tests

The stand-off between the state government and the students protesting against decision to conduct recruitment tests for the posts of Sub-Inspectors of police across the state ended on Friday with the government being forced to listen to the voice of sanity and postponing the examination scheduled for December 18 and 19.

The postponement announced by the government comes as a breather to the agitating students and to the people across Telangana region who were kept on tenterhooks by the equally adamant attitude of both the players involved.

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Chief Minister K Rosaiah had announced on Thursday that the government will go ahead and conduct the test across the state barring Hyderabad, the bone of contention in the Free Zone Issue.

Addressing a crowded media meeting at the Secretariat on Friday, Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy said that, “keeping so many aspects in view as also the interests of the unemployed aspirants, the government has decided that the much awaited SI test be postponed.”

Though it was obvious that the government had bowed to the demands from the opposition and the striking students and postponed the said exam, Ms Indra Reddy demurred from answering whether the government had succumbed to the 'pressures' applied by the agitating students.

The Minister of course appealed to all sections to cooperate with the government. She said that the government had watched the situation and the issue from all the angles for over a week and took into account all the aspects and contemplated to postpone the 'SI test'.

The Home Minister also admitted that the SI exam should be held in a good atmosphere and ambience and that the government was not adamant in this regard. Further, she said that she tried to clarify any doubts raised regarding the deletion of Clause 14 F from the Presidential Order.

The Chief Minister is also understood to have spoken to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram for over half an hour emphasising the need to dispose off the Clause 14 F deletion 'file'. The Home Minister revealed that Mr Rosaiah also dashed off a letter to the Central government on this point.

To further follow it up further, an officer has been deputed to New Delhi for getting the 'file' cleared, she informed.

Besides, the Chief Minister himself will go to New Delhi for personally clarifying any queries raised by the Central Government, she said.