Will fill vacancies after new zonal policy in force: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

HYDERABAD: The state will take up a full-fledged exercise to fill up vacancies in the government after the exercise on the new zonal policy, district posts and division of employees is completed.
Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, while delivering the Independence Day address on Sunday, said the TRS government was successful in its efforts to get amendments to the Presidential Order to ensure 95% jobs to locals and also get a new zonal system. The state government has already started filling up vacancies, but it would be done comprehensively after the exercise on division of employees in tune with the new zonal policy was completed, he said.
He said lakhs of people got employment with several industrial units being set up in the state after TS-iPASS policy was introduced in November 2015. The state had received investment to the tune of Rs 2.2 lakh crore. “In the last seven years, 16,671 industries have come to the state which have created 15,86,500 jobs,” he said.
The state government has also withstood the negative impact of Covid-19 on the economy and the IT sector. After the formation of the state, 20 prestigious world renowned IT giants have set up their campuses in the state. “In 2013-14, IT exports were to the tune of Rs 57,258 crore in Telangana, and these exports reached Rs 1,45,522 crore (Rs 1.45 lakh crore) in 2020-21. In employment generation too, IT and IT-related sectors have provided jobs to 100 per cent more people compared to the jobs created in 2013-14,” he said. “With the efforts of the Telangana government, the IT sector in the state was now providing three jobs for every 10 new jobs being created in the Indian IT sector,” KCR said.