In Telangana, 95 per cent govt jobs for locals

Naveen S Garewal

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, April 20

Telangana has got a go-ahead for its policy to recruit 95 per cent locals for government jobs. The state government announced the approval by the Union Government of its new zonal system for the recruitment of staff for state government services.

The new zonal system will favour locals to get 95% of all opportunities in state-level recruitments. As per a notification, two ‘multi-Zones’, which include seven zones, were created for all departments except the police department.

Sources said the Police Department had been organised into two separate multi-zones, with its own list of seven zones, which include all police commissionerates and district police headquarters.

The Ministry of Home Affairs released a gazette notification, which said that the Telangana Public Employment (Organisation of Local Cadre and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) 2018 had been amended and would be called Telangana Public Employment (Organisation of Local Cadre and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Amendment Order, 2021.