The State Government on Wednesday gave the nod for the hiring of more than 700 officials on an outsourcing basis by the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Department.
As many as 47 Senior Assistants and 662 Work Inspectors will be hired by the government in the next few days, and they are likely to be assigned the works related to the ambitious Telangana State Drinking Water Grid project.
In a related development, the government has sanctioned the purchase of 26 vehicles for the use of the engineering officials of the RWS&S Department.
However, the Rural Water Supply Department has been asked to purchase only 15 vehicles in the first phase - the remaining vehicles will be purchased after the sanction of new posts which is under examination. (INN)