Telangana youth protest district reorganisation, demand immediate job notifications

Unemployed youth in Telangana have criticised the Congress government’s district reorganisation plan, calling it a delay tactic for recruitment. They demand immediate release of job notifications, warning that the reorganisation may affect zonal reservations and delay filling two lakh vacancies.

Hyderabad: The unemployed youth and government job aspirants strongly criticised the Telangana Congress government’s plans on district reorganisation and termed it a move to further delay the job notifications.

They were of the view that instead of honouring its election promise of filling up two lakh vacancies, the Congress government has now come up with the district re-organisation to escape from its assurance on jobs.

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Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday announced that a commission, headed by a retired Supreme Court or High Court judge, would be constituted to take up the re-organisation exercise. A few officers from Revenue and other departments would be part of the commission, which would seek opinions from all sections.

After meeting people in all areas and recording their demands for about six months, the Commission would submit its report. Initially, mandals would be rationalised, he had said.

This announcement did not go down well with the unemployed youth, who have been staunchly protesting against the government for the last several days, demanding release of the job calendar and recruitment notifications. They are now planning to stage a massive protest in Hyderabad after the Sankranti festival.

An unemployed youth leader, Indra Nayak, said the district reorganisation plan is nothing but delaying recruitment notifications. “The Central government had asked the States to send proposals for creating new districts, if any, on or before December 31, 2025. Why didn’t the State government respond back then and now come up with the plan of district reorganisation? We will take up massive protests in Hyderabad,” he said.

Earlier, after the formation of new districts, the State was split into multi-zone I and II, comprising a total of seven, with four zones falling under the multi-zone I and three under multi-zone II, for local reservation for direct recruitments. The State government now wants to reorganise these 33 districts, which will ultimately affect the multi-zones and zones and reservations.

The unemployed youth are of the view that changes in the districts, whether increasing or reducing their number, will automatically lead to scrapping of the existing zonal system that affects the local reservations.

After reorganisation, the Central government and President’s assent are required, which takes time, thereby delaying recruitment notifications.

“This is a deliberate attempt by the government to escape from its assurances given to the unemployed youth in the election manifesto, which promised to fill up two lakh vacancies within one year. But, even before the exercise is taken up, we demand the government to release recruitment notifications, which can be subject to the outcome of the district re-organisation,” said A Janardhan, an unemployed youth leader.