Telangana Budget: Congress skips job notifications, unemployment allowance again

The Telangana Budget 2026-27 makes no mention of fresh job notifications or unemployment allowance, drawing criticism from youth groups. Promises of a job calendar and financial aid remain unfulfilled, raising concerns over employment generation and support for unemployed youth

Hyderabad: Assurances of job calendar, recruitment notifications and unemployment allowance for youth continue to remain hollow as the Telangana Congress government yet again omitted fresh job notifications and financial assistance in the Budget presented on Friday.

During the last Assembly elections, the Congress party had promised to fill 2 lakh vacancies, with a job calendar, within one year of coming to power. However, even after two years, the Congress government continued the same pattern, with no mention of new jobs in the Budget.

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Presenting the Budget, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu claimed the government issued job appointment letters to 67,763 persons, so far. In fact, the majority of these jobs had been notified during the previous BRS government. In addition, the Deputy Chief Minister failed to announce how many new job notifications will be issued and filled in the next financial year.

Further, the government has to allocate budget for paying salaries for the newly recruited persons. However, there is no mention of such allocations in the Budget. In fact, the State is already struggling to pay monthly salaries to its existing employees, who are paid in the first or second week of every month as against the assurance on the first day of the month.

“During the previous BRS government, former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had allocated Rs 100 crore towards salaries for new recruits and announced recruitment for 70,000 vacancies in 2022. As there are no allocations for salaries towards new recruits in the upcoming financial year, it is understood that the Congress government will not release the job notifications this year as well and continue to deceive the unemployed youth,” said A Janardhan, an unemployed youth leader.

Further, an unemployed allowance of Rs 4,000 per month as assured in Hyderabad Youth Declaration released by Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi during Assembly election has also been omitted in this year’s Budget. As per estimates, there are nearly 35 lakh unemployed in the State.

“In the last couple of months, some unemployed youth died by suicide due to financial pressure and no new job notifications from the government. We demand the government first issue notifications or honour its promise of providing financial assistance to the unemployed,” he added.