Jagan launches Job-Calendar for 2021-22, to fill 10,143 posts

Vijayawada/Visakhapatnam Fulfilling yet another poll promise made in the election manifesto of ruling YSR Congress Party, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday released the job calendar for 2021-22 with an announcement that 10,143 vacant government posts will be filled during the year.

Describing it as a significant decision taken for the first time in the State, Reddy now the unemployed would know the exact month of the job notification release and the number of posts that are vacant. He said that the entire process will be done in a transparent way without corruption or discrimination or the involvement of middlemen.

The recruitment will be based on the marks obtained in the written test conducted by the government without any interview process. Affirming that youngsters are looking for jobs, the Chief Minister stated that the government had brought the job calendar to boost the confidence among the youth.

Recalling the two year governance, Reddy said almost over one lakh jobs were created within four months of forming the government and had filled a total 6,03,756 jobs in the last two years, which included 1.22 lakh permanent jobs in the village and ward secretariats. He said that the volunteer system was brought in to increase the sense of service among the unemployed youth, and thus recruited 2.50 lakh youngsters as volunteers. Of the total 6.03 lakh jobs created, 1,84,264 were on a regular basis, 3,99,791 were outsourced and 19,701 on contract basis.

He said the government had hiked the salaries for 7,02,656 jobs who were paid a meagre amount during the TDP government.

Unlike the previous government, where brokers were more involved in outsourcing appointments, the YSRCP government had brought APCOS to keep transparency in the recruitments and payments, and gave no scope for middlemen or corruption. In spite of having a Rs 3500-crore burden, APSRTC has been merged with the State Government , where the lives of 51,387 RTC employees have been secured.

He said that the job market will be expanded with the decentralisation and more jobs will be created at the village level itself.

On this occasion, the Chief Minister slammed the previous government for not keeping the election promise of providing a job to each household and leaving the unemployed youth in lurch by not paying the promised unemployment allowance. He said that Chandrababu Naidu promised to fill 1.4 lakh vacant posts listed in the election manifesto, but in reality the manifesto itself was dumped in a trash bin.

Deputy Chief Minister Alla Kali Krishnasrinivas, Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh, DGP Gautam Sawang, Higher Education Special Chief Secretary Satish Chandra, Housing Special Chief Secretary Ajay Jain, Chief Secretary for Finance (Human Resources) Sasibhushan Kumar, Medical and Health Chief Secretary Anil Kumar Singhal, Tribal Welfare Secretary Kantilal Dande, I&PR Commissioner T Vijaykumar Reddy, APPSC Secretary PSR Anjaneyalu, AP State Level Police Recruitment Board Chairman Harish Kumar Gupta, and other officials were present on the occasion.