AGARTALA, July 17 (TIWN): While there is rampant unemployment in Tripura it has been shockingly revealed that almost twenty two thousand government posts are lying pending in the state. This is also the reason that education department is in a dysfunctional condition, because close to fifteen thousand posts are lying vacant in this crucial sector.

It is however a different matter that thousands of teachers in the state have failed to ensure good quality education in government schools. The situation is the same in almost all the departments of the state. Whether it is a technical organizations or a civil departments almost all are facing shortfall of manpower which is also affecting the public service.

Despite the shortfall in manpower, ruling CPI (M) government has failed to hire people, and recruit the staffs while they have been singing paens about skill development, creating job, self-employment and entrepreneurship.

This is despite the fact that all the vacant posts are already budgeted, and accounted for, and there would no need for getting additional funds or permissions to fill them. The worst part is that due to non-recruitment thousands of posts are lying vacant in remote and hilly areas of the state. There has been migration to Agartala  because there are no enough good education, and professional facilities available in tribal areas. The technical posts in several departments are vacant, and essential services in many cases are suffering across the state.

Not only this, unemployed youths in the state are suffering badly because of the lack of the opportunities, and they are being forced to seek jobs outside the state in metro cities.