AP cabinet decides to fill several vacancies

Vijayawada: The AP Cabinet meeting on Wednesday took several important decisions including the grant of an assistance of ₹ 50,000 and an additional ₹ 1 lakh under the Jagananna Civil Services Protsaham (intensive) to candidates who clear the UPSC prelims and mains respectively.

The Cabinet also decided to offer house plot to every landless government employee by the time he or she retires. The other decisions are to implement the IB (International Baccalaureate) syllabus in AP’s educational institutions and provide a 50 per cent reservation of seats to tribals in Kurupam engineering college etc.

Addressing the media, minister S.V. Krishna said the Cabinet approved bills relating to the Guaranteed Pension Scheme for the government employees and regularisation of contract employees besides the amendment bills of the AP Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, Endowments, PoT of assigned lands, private universities, APSSG, APGST and Bhoodan Acts.

This apart, the fee reimbursement and Aarogyasri schemes would, from now on, be made applicable to the children of retired employees too.

The Cabinet has also approved the Jagananna Aarogya Suraksha programme that will run for 45 days from September 30.

The Cabinet has approved the signing of an MoU with the American educational agency International Baccalaureate (IB).

Another decision was to introduce Jagananna Civil Services Incentive Programme and allot 50 per cent of the seats to tribal youths in the Kurupam Engineering College.

The Cabinet decided to make all university recruitments through APPSC.

Under the Jagananna Civil Services Incentive Programme, the government will award incentives of ₹ 50,000 to prelims passed candidate and an additional '1 lakh to the candidates who pass the Mains examinations.

The amendment to the Private Universities Act will make it compulsory for all private universities to have a tie-up with top 100 foreign universities to provide joint certification to the students. It will also help bring 35 per cent seats under convener quota in all private colleges, which will turn into universities.

The Cabinet has also decided to allot 10 cents of house site to tennis player Jaffrin Syed and give her deputy registrar job in the cooperative department.

The Cabinet approved the zero vacancy policy and decided to fill up 353 vacancies in cancer units of government hospitals at Visakhapatnam, Guntur and Kadapa and 34 teaching and 10 non-teaching posts in Adoni Government College.

The Cabinet approved proposals to fill up one assistant director post in sericulture department, 13 special deputy registrar posts, 6 deputy registrar posts, 2 engineer posts in electricity department, 40 office subordinate posts and 28 driver posts in the AP High Court, 168 posts in the Nursing Colleges at Vijayawada, Ongole and Eluru, 99 posts in 11 government hospitals and medical colleges, 10 posts in coastal zone management authority, 5 posts in the hazardous activities tribunal and also fill the existing vacancies in the chief electoral office.

By another decision, the bulk drugs factory would be shifted from Kakinada to Nakkapall. An acre of land would be allotted to the SBI for setting up a rural self-employment training centre at China Mushidivada in Visakhapatnam, 7 acres and 45 cents to Guntur-based Viswa Manava Samaikyatha Sansad for the construction of a mother and child hospital and 5 acres for the tourism department to construct a convention centre.

Another decision was to approve the release of nine life convicts from prison on the occasion of the Azadi ki Amrut Mahotsav.