Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao criticised successive governments for neglecting Palamuru district, citing migration, drought and suicides as persistent issues. He defended the BRS government’s push for the Gollapally reservoir project.
It was on October 17, 2019 that Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, at a high-level meeting on recruitments, took the decision to do away with personal interviews for all recruitments through the AP Public Service Commission.