KCR bonanza for jobless, 80K posts to be filled up

HYDERABAD: In a major bonanza to unemployed youth in Telangana, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday announced a mega recruitment drive to fill 80,039 posts at one go in various departments of the state government with immediate effect. He made a statement to this effect in the Legislative Assembly ending a five-year-long wait of unemployed youth in the state for government job notifications adding that the delay was on account of bringing new zonal system to ensure 95 per cent reservations for locals in jobs following the creation of new districts, zones and multi zones for which the Centre took time to approve. With 95 per cent reservations for locals now, we ensured that only Telangana locals get state government jobs," he said. With the amendment to the Presidential Order cleared by the Centre in August 2021 due to the efforts of the Telangana government, local candidates would get 95 per cent reservation in government employment from the lowest cadre of attendant to the highest cadre of revenue division officer, he told the House claiming that Telangana was the only state in the entire country to achieve this. Stating that Telangana locals suffered huge discrimination in jobs in undivided AP, the Chief Minister said, "The reservations for locals was 60 per cent in undivided AP.