Telangana Chief Minister Says Over 91,000 Government Jobs Being Notified

Jobs for locals, especially government jobs, was one of the major demands put forth during the Telangana struggle and was promised by KCR's party.

In a major outreach to the youth, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced in the state assembly today that 91,142 government jobs were being notified immediately. This would cost Rs 7,000 crore annually.

"After division of employees following bifurcation, 91,142 jobs are vacant. Today itself we will issue notifications for all of them. Before the statement, I need to clarify our earlier move to regularise 11,103 contract employees. They are ageing and waiting for too long. Now the court has given orders. So we are now going to regularise all of them. There are legislature jobs too. Different departments will issue notifications today itself including 20-30,000 in education department. We will see that no job stays vacant," KCR said.

Telangana will become the first state to have 95 per cent reservation for locals in government jobs, even senior positions under Group I services, as opposed to 60-80 per cent earlier, that too only for junior positions.

Jobs for locals, especially government jobs, was one of the major demands put forth during the Telangana struggle and was promised by KCR's party, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS. In the last seven-and-a-half years, the KCR government has been sharply criticised by all Opposition parties, who have said the TRS had failed to deliver on that count.