Its raining jobs in Andhra Pradesh

HYDERABAD: It hasn’t exactly been a cloudburst of jobs, as promised by the Kiran Kumar Reddy government, but it is raining jobs. In the last two months, the state government has issued notifications for 50,000 government jobs in various departments. It had promised 1.16 lakh job notifications by December 31.The home department has been leading recruiter, issuing notifications for 23,964 posts including constables, sub-inspectors and positions in the prisons department.The APPSC has done its bit with 38 notifications for 8,961 posts including 34 in just the past four days. These posts notified by APPSC include Group I, Group II, Group IV, degree lecturers, junior stenographers and assistant executive engineers and many others.  Next in line, the revenue department has announced recruitment for 7,235 posts including those of village revenue assistants and village revenue officers.Power utilities APTransco and APGenco and the four  have also invited applications for 6,263 posts including junior linemen, junior assistants, sub-engineers and assistant engineers.The state transporter APSRTC is recruiting for 2,737 posts of shramiks, junior assistants, constables, traffic supervisor trainees and mechanical supervisor trainees. But chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has a long way to go to keep his promise of filling 1.16 lakh government jobs.The government has more notifications in the pipeline: 50,000 teacher jobs including 7,000 posts in model schools, 5,500 posts of junior lecturers, excise constables, extension officers in the agriculture department and a few other departments. Round the state, campuses are abuzz with talk of job opportunities. Coaching institutes at Ashok Nagar and Dilsukh Nagar in Hyderabad are milling with aspirants wanting to be prepped for the recruitment.OU student G Srinivas said he is having a go at five jobs and his entire day is taken up by preparation for recruitment tests. “I can’t afford to let this opportunity slip,” he said.