TRS will provide 1.12 lakh jobs before govt completes term: Etela Rajender

Finance minister Etela Rajender on Tuesday said that the 1.12 lakh posts that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao promised to fill up in the government sector will be done before the TRS government completes its five-year term in office. These jobs will cost the state exchequer an additional financial burden of Rs 3,000 crore per year.

Etela Rajender, irrigation minister Harish Rao and deputy chief minister Kadiyam Srihari sought to assure the unemployed youth in Telangana that the recruitment process through the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) and other departments would gather pace and all 1.12lakh vacancies in the government sector will be filled up before the TRS government completes its term.

Responding to issues raised by BJP, Congress, TDP, MIM and CPM members during a short discussion on ‘filling up of government vacant posts and



unemployment issue’ in the Assembly, Rajender said that despite an adverse impact on the employment opportunities due to demonetisation and GST policies, the TRS government will fill up all vacancies in the government sector.

Also, the TRS government is expecting that its efficient industrial policy that has resulted in 16,000 institutions either having set up or in the process of being set up in the state will generate 2 lakh job opportunities in the private sector.

Charging the opposition parties with supporting people who had gone to the court filing 272 cases regarding most of the 73 job notifications issued by the TSPSC and stalling the recruitment process, the finance minister said that of the total 4.41 lakh government jobs in the state, the recruitment process for 63,152 jobs is on, of which 27,744 had already been filled up.