State of play
In the second week of March, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government has decided to initiate a massive recruitment drive for filling up 80,039 vacant government posts in 27 departments. The exercise will require ₹7,300 crore annually. He also said that the government will henceforth identify vacancies in advance and publish an annual calendar for recruitment. He promised that the entire process will be done in a transparent manner.
Other than recruitment for uniformed services like the police, Mr. Rao raised the upper limit by 10 years for all direct recruitment. With this, the upper age limit will be 44 years for Open Categories, 49 years for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes, and 54 years for the physically challenged. The huge direct recruitment drive will be accompanied by regularisation of the services of 11,103 contract workers who are already employed in existing vacancies, he said.
