Vijayawada :Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officials to prepare an action plan on recruitment of posts, which were specified in the job calendar and not yet filled.
The Chief Minister held a review meeting on implementation of the job calendar at the camp office here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said 39,654 posts were filled in the year 2021-22 and reminded that 1.26 lakh permanent jobs were created in the village and ward secretariats after coming to power. He said another 50,000 people were taken into the government by merging RTC.
The Chief Minister directed the officials to fill vacancies in the medical and health department by the end of June, associate professor posts in higher education departments by September and APPSC posts by March and said to prepare an action plan in this regard.
He said the state government is spending a lot of money on the health and education sectors and there won’t be much benefit if posts are not filled in these sectors. He said the recruitment of teaching posts in higher education departments including regular and contract jobs should be transparent and effective and directed the officials to prepare plans in this regard.
The Chief Minister instructed the officials to prepare an action plan for recruitment of Police posts and said recruitment should be done regularly as per the plan. The officials informed the Chief Minister that 39,654 posts were filled in the year 2021-22 of which 39,310 posts were in the medical and health department.
The officials told the Chief Minister that 47,465 posts were notified of which 83.5 percent were filled in one year. They said 16.5 percent posts, which were about 8 thousand posts, are yet to be filled of which 1,198 posts are in the medical and health department.
DGP K V Rajendranath Reddy, Finance Special Chief Secretary S S Rawat and Women and Child Welfare Principal Secretary A R Anuradha were among those who attended.