Jobs for all is Chandrasekhar Rao's gift to Telangana for 2016

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced a New Year’s gift on Thursday, ordering the recruitment of up to 20,000 teachers, regularisation of services of 25,000 contract staff and increasing the salaries of 50,000 outsourcing staff.

He also asked the police to issue the notification to fill 9,000 vacancies in the police and fire departments soon. Mr Rao directed officials to finalise the modalities and put them up for ratification at a Cabinet meeting that he has scheduled on January 2. The CM also announced a sop for small property holders in Hyderabad ahead of GHMC polls.

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Earlier, Mr Rao held a high-level meeting in Secretariat on Thursday with top ministers and officials to finalise the sops.

The Chief Minister also handed over to officials, thousands of applications and representations which he had received from people while touring the districts during the Telangana statehood agitation from 2001 to 2014 and as CM from June 2014 till date.

They were categorised department-wise. He asked officials to computerise all the applications and try to resolve the issues and submit action-taken reports to the CMO every week.

Mr Rao reminded them about his promise to regularise contract staff during the Telangana statehood agitation days and before the 2014 general elections and said the time had come to fulfil the promise.

“Our policy is not to have contract staff in Telangana state. Everyone should be full-time regular government employees. Once the existing contract staff are regularised, there should be no contract staff system in the state in future,” he said.

Mr Rao had recently announced waiving Rs 423 crore power, water tariff arrears for the poor in the GHMC limits, which is expected to benefit 9 lakh people.