KTR demands filling of 20,000 police vacancies in Telangana

BRS working president KT Rama Rao demanded that the Congress government fill 20,000 police vacancies and enhance the upper age limit for aspirants. He accused the government of failing to honour its election promises and warned of a statewide agitation.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao demanded that the Congress government immediately fill 20,000 police constable and sub-inspector posts, honouring its election promises to unemployed youth. He accused the ruling Congress of betraying unemployed youth by limiting recruitment to just 5,000 vacancies.

He also demanded an enhancement of the upper age limit to 36 years for constables and 37 years for SI aspirants, arguing that four years had elapsed since the last recruitment and many candidates were becoming ineligible. He warned that unless the government issued fresh notifications to fill all vacancies across all departments, the BRS would launch a statewide agitation.

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In an open letter to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on behalf of police job aspirants, Rama Rao said the unemployed youth were struggling in Hyderabad while living in hostels to prepare for recruitment examinations. He urged the government not to shatter the aspirations of the aspirants, who largely hail from poor, middle-class and rural families.

Recalling that “Water, Funds and Jobs” was the slogan of the Telangana statehood movement, the BRS working president said the Congress government had failed to deliver on employment despite acknowledging that around 17,000 police vacancies existed. He said that while the Chief Minister had earlier promised to fill 12,000 posts, a notification was issued only for 5,000 vacancies, disappointing nearly 15 lakh aspirants and triggering protests in Hyderabad.

Drawing a comparison with the previous BRS government, Rama Rao said it had filled around 47,000 police posts through three recruitment drives, besides issuing notifications for 2.32 lakh government jobs and filling over 1.6 lakh vacancies with 95 per cent local reservation.

Accusing the Congress of reneging on its Youth Declaration, he said the promise of filling two lakh government jobs within a year, introducing an annual job calendar and providing a Rs 4,000 unemployment allowance remained unfulfilled. He reminded that the government had filled only 17,000 new jobs in the last two-and-a-half years while claiming credit for appointments initiated during the BRS regime.