The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Notification for filling over 10,000 posts shortly

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Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Notification for filling over 10,000 posts shortly

The APPSC will notify recruitments for a majority of posts

Departments will recruit for posts that do not fall under APPSC’s purview
Move follows the clearance given by the State Cabinet on July 13

HYDERABAD: The State Government will issue a notification for recruitment of over 10,000 persons in various posts in different departments within the next couple of weeks.

The process of notifying fresh recruitments to regular posts in health, home, excise and other departments has reached the final stages. While the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission will notify recruitments for a majority of posts, the departments concerned will recruit candidates for posts that do not fall under the Commission’s purview.

This follows the clearance given by the State Cabinet on July 13. Given the lapse of time since the last recruitment was made in 2004, several youth gave representations seeking age relaxation to provide an opportunity to those who crossed the upper age limit to take the examinations.

Anxious time

Aspiring youth spent anxious weeks as the process remained sluggish even though it was announced that the APPSC and the departments concerned would be intimated about the Cabinet’s decision within a week.

Coupled with this was the existing norm of fixing July 1 as the cutoff date for any notification issued during the course of the year that led to further apprehensions whether the recruitment would take place at all.

According to official sources, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy approved the proposal to provide age relaxation as in 1998 and 2004 when a senior Minister brought the issue to his notice.

“The matter is in the final stages and the departments will be asked to kickstart the recruitment process within a week or two,” a Finance Department official said.

Admitting that there was delay in expediting the process, he said that the department had to consider various aspects, including the implementation of Government Order 610 in the recruitments, in tune with the Government’s promise to strictly follow the Presidential Order in future recruitments.

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