Sunday 25 August 2013

Andhra Apathy: Jobless engineers join police department as police constables at the lower rungs

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
More and more jobless engineering graduates are joining state police
to work at the lowest rung as constables. State police department is about to reach a
record of one of the few police forces in the country with one lakh men soon with the
trainees joining it. Around 10 per cent of 12,000 constables who are undergoing training
in various Police Training Centres and police colleges are Bachelors of Technology
(B.Tech graduates) indicating desperation for a job.

According to training wing of State police around 50 per cent of the trainee constables
are graduates including 10 per cent of engineers though the minimum qualification is
intermediate.
A senior IPS official said ,”Most of them are B,Tech graduates , post graduates in
various faculties and other graduates who are going to complete their training in October
2013 and will be joining their duties,”
According to Additional DG Law and Order and spokesperson Mr. V S K Kaumudi  around 5900
civil constables, 2125 Armed reserve constables, 3700 APSP battalion Stipendiary cadet
constables are being trained in various centres in the State. Mr. Kaumudi said,”The total
strength of state police is 97,000 now. Apart from 11725 constables 1080 civil Sis and
1053 Reserve Sis and 21 APSPS RSIs are also getting trained,”
Engineering graduates queuing up for constable jobs as they lack skills to take up jobs
in engineering profession observed academicians.
JNTU Hyderabad registrar Mr. N V Ramana Rao says "Every year, nearly 2 lakh engineering
graduates are being churned out from the engineering colleges. But according to Nasscom
survey, only 10 per cent of them are employable. This is because majority of the
engineering colleges are sub-standard and were set up just to secure funds from the
government under fee reimbursement scheme.  They lack engineering skillls and companies
do not offer them any jobs after completion of their course. With this, these engineering
graduates are looking at APPSC and other recruitment board to secure government jobs,"
According to 2012 Crime in AP of CID AP has 122 policemen for every 10,000 population and
the national average is 137. With the new addition it will be improving further.

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