Deceit, broken promises and shattered aspirations; It’s a bitter 2024 for unemployed youth in Telangana

The Congress promise in its youth declaration during the Assembly elections generated hope among the unemployed. However, as months passed by, reality dawned for the unemployed youth that the promises were mere bait to garner votes

Hyderabad: Broken promises and shattered aspirations. It has been a bitter ‘Year 2024’ for the unemployed youth of Telangana with the Congress government led by A Revanth Reddy failing to deliver the poll promise of filling up 2 lakh vacancies in a year.

The Congress promise in its youth declaration during the Assembly elections generated hope among the unemployed. However, as months passed by, reality dawned for the unemployed youth that the promises were mere bait to garner votes.

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As part of the youth declaration, the Congress party assured to release the mega district selection committee (DSC) notification for filling up teacher vacancies. However, it had added 5,973 vacancies to the DSC notification, which was already notified with 5,089 posts by the previous BRS government in 2023. This left thousands of teacher job aspirants betrayed.

Further, the State government did not approve a single recruitment to the Telangana Public Service Commission (TGPSC), the largest recruiting body to the government, resulting in no new notification from the Commission this calendar year. The only notification has been of the Group – I for 563 vacancies out of which 503 posts were already notified by the BRS government in 2022.

Of the 2 lakh promised jobs, only 5,000 vacancies in the health department materialized with the majority of vacancies in different departments remaining unfilled.

During the previous BRS government, the TGPSC had alone consistently issued 135 notifications for over 52,500 vacancies in the last one decade. These notifications had become a reliable job calendar for unemployed youth.

Now, lack of job notifications not just dashed hopes of the unemployed youth but has left them with a sense of betrayal. “The Congress promise during assembly elections was nothing but cheating unemployed youth in the name of jobs. As per our estimates there are 2.67 lakh vacancies in government departments yet recruitment were not approved for the same,” lamented A Janardhan, an unemployed youth and Groups job aspirant.

While the Congress government is making claims of filling up 55,143 vacancies in one year, notifications for all these vacancies were issued during the previous BRS government. The present government handed over the appointment letters to candidates selected in the examinations conducted by the previous government.

Further, the Congress government’s job calendar released in the Assembly in August, giving time-line for 14 different job notifications, remained confined to paper.

As per the calendar, the government scheduled Group – I notification in October with the preliminary test in February 2025. However, even after two months the government did not approve Group – I vacancies for recruitment, leave aside Group – I notification. In fact, the current Group – I services recruitment notification has been facing legal hurdles for different issues, including reservation violation.

“The job calendar is another drama by the Congress government, which is delaying the notifications citing SC sub categorisation issue. If the government wants it can issue a GO on the reservation issue and take up new recruitments,” said Indra Nayak, a Group job aspirant.