Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced Tuesday that the notification for the recruitment of 25,000 government positions will be issued in July.
Addressing state formation day celebrations here, he said the unemployed were waiting for employment for years. He said that despite the post-bifurcation problems were still to be resolved, the government has decided to initiate the recruitment process.
He also announced that a scheme of two-bedroom house for the poor will be launched this year. Each house will be built at a cost of Rs500,000 (Dh28,753). The government plans to build 50,000 homes this year at a cost of Rs25 million.
Listing the achievements of the government Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in the first year, the premier said that the welfare of the people was the goal of the government.
“The government is spending Rs28,000 crore [Rs280 million] per year in various welfare programs and Telangana is the only state to spend such a large amount on welfare,” he said in his speech at the main official celebrations Parade Grounds.
KCR, as it is known the Prime Minister said there was a disinformation campaign by some that the new state will sink into the darkness, but the government proved them wrong by overcoming the shortage of electricity within six months.
Promising 24 hours of uninterrupted power supply to all sectors by 2017, the head of TRS said they are taking steps to make a state of Telangana surplus electricity. “If necessary we will supply another state.”
KCR said the government had achieved financial closure for energy projects involving an investment of Rs910 billion and work on three projects that had already started.
He said the government had drawn up plans to build roads at a cost of Rs200 billion.
He spoke about Mission Kakatiya, the ambitious government project to revive 46,000 irrigation tanks in the state in five years.
The Prime Minister announced that the first stone was placed shortly for lift irrigation project at a cost Palamuru billion RS350 to solve the problem of fluoride in Nalgonda district.
The foundation stone for another project began this month to provide water for drinking and irrigation in drought-prone northern Telangana at a cost of Rs.300 million.
Saying his government was in favor of employees, KCR said that it had increased the salaries of civil servants by 43 percent.
Salaries for Road Transport Corporation (RTC) employees were also revised by 44 percent.
He said that the services of all employees hired in government departments will be regularized from next month.
He said a mass planting campaign will be addressed through the state. The government plans to plant three billion saplings. He said that everyone from a student to an IAS officer should participate in the ‘Harithaharam’ program to be launched next month.
The government also took the modernization of the police force at a cost of Rs4 billion, he added.
