New Districts Bring No Cheer

Telangana government’s creation of 17 new districts from Dussehra may not benefit employees and job aspirants of promotions and employment. The state government had decided not to give promotions or go for fresh recruitment for the new districts and instructed the district collectors to adjust the existing staff in the new districts.

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The government had proposed promotions to existing staff and addition of 25000 new jobs but then dropped the idea as it would be a heavy financial burden to the state. The collectors will also rationalise staff allocation by merging insignificant departments with significant ones.

The existing 20 departments in collectorates will be downsized to eight through mergers to see that the employees thus relieved can be accommodated in the new districts. However, employees foul cry that this would create administration problems in the districts. But the state government is keen on not taking the burden because the salary bill already crossed 2000 Crore per month.