TRS Slams Opposition, Says 63,000 Recruitments Soon

The winter session of the Telangana Assembly today saw some heated arguments between the treasury and the opposition benches on the issue of providing jobs to the youth.

During the short debate on the jobs issue, Finance Minister Etela Rajender raged against the opposition for constantly trying to vilify the government on the issue of providing government jobs to the unemployed. He said that there were 4,41,995 posts and 1,08,132 vacancies in the state, and that no government could provide jobs to all when the vacancies were just 2% of the job-seeking population. He said that the TRS government was however committed to filling up all 1.08 lakh posts as promised, and that the process for the filling up of 63,152 posts was already on, with the government allotting Rs 1500 crores for the exercise. Another 27,774 vacancies in various departments had already been filled, he claimed.

The minister slammed the opposition for resorting to making obfuscating comments and misleading the people on the issue despite all this actual work on employment happening. The previous governments were not able to give jobs to the youth, and were unable to accept the TRS government being far more successful than them, he claimed.

The minister said that several companies in the region had closed down due to the negligence and lopsided policies of the previous governments, but the new industrial policy of the TRS government had lured many companies of international repute to set up operations in Hyderabad and offer employment to locals, including behemoths like Apple which was setting up its software development centre in Hyderabad instead of in Bengaluru.

Also, despite court orders to regularize the contract and outsourcing staff appointed before 1996, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had brought in a unique policy to provide equal salary for equal work, he said. The credit for hiking salaries for 2.20 lakh staff working on contract and outsourcing basis went to KCR, he said.