Telangana cabinet okays annual job calendar

HYDERABAD: Here on, an ‘annual recruitment calendar’ will be prepared to fill up vacancies in various government departments every year. The state cabinet, which met at Pragati Bhavan on Tuesday, directed the officials to prepare the calendar every year after identifying vacant posts in each department.

The cabinet will meet again on Wednesday to finalise the recruitment drive to be taken up in the state. All the departments secretaries have been asked to brief the cabinet with details. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has recently announced that the government would fill up 50,000 vacancies in various government departments. On the request of government employees’ unions, the cabinet also discussed about allocation of posts at the district level and recruitment process.
The cabinet meeting, chaired by the CM, decided to reserve 50% of seats in various government residential schools for students belonging to respective assembly constituencies. KCR directed the local MLA, mandal praja parishad president, ZP chairperson and municipal chairperson to attend the monthly meetings of residential welfare schools in their respective jurisdictions.
During its seven-and-a-half hour meeting, the cabinet also discussed about surge in Covid-19 cases in some districts, preparedness for third wave of the pandemic, Pattana Pragati and Palle Pragati programmes, development of municipalities and enhancement of land values for property registrations.
Last week, the CM had directed the health secretary to visit border districts where Covid-19 cases were on the rise and sought a report. The health secretary submitted the report to the CM.
The cabinet enquired about availability of medicines, oxygen, infrastructure facilities in the hospitals, vaccination and preparedness on the part of officials on a possible third wave. The CM directed the officials to keep medicines and beds ready apart from completing fever survey in the state.
Both panchayat raj and municipal administration departments have submitted reports on Palle and Pattana Pragati programmes that concluded a couple of days ago. KCR directed the officials to complete graveyards in all municipalities and villages within one month.