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Telangana government to launch massive recruitment drive

Dubai: The Telangana government is undertaking a massive recruitment drive to fill vacancies in various government departments. Chief Minister K Chandrasekher Rao has appointed an young and dynamic academician Prof Ghanta Chakrapani to head the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPCC), a constitutional body which is tasked with the responsibility of filling all vacancies in the government.

Speaking to Khaleej Times from Hyderabad, Prof Chakrapani said there are over 100,000 vacancies in various government departments which the public service commission will start filling in the near future. Till now some recruitments are being undertaken by departments on their own. For example, the police recruitment boards are recruiting constables and sub-inspectors through their own tests and interviews. The same is the case with teacher recruitments. The district collectors had been doing recruitments through the district selection boards for filling teacher vacancies.

Now the government of Telangana is planning to bring all the recruitments under the TSPSC umbrella, the commission chairman said.

Prof Chakrapani, who is an household name in Telangana because of his frequent appearances on TV news channels expressing his views on various local and national issues, says he will put in place a strong and fair recruitment process. Ruling out favouritism and nepotism in recruitments, the professor said he would not entertain recommendations. Asked when the recruitment process would start, the commission chairman said it might take about five to six months as the division of the employees between both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was not yet completed. He also went on to add that aspiring candidates need not do the rounds of the commission offices as all processes would be put on online.

Hailing from a Dalit community, Prof Chakrapani has worked hard to climb up the ladder. Starting off as a journalist in vernacular media, he completed his Masters in journalism and sociology and obtained a doctorate in sociology. Later, he took up teaching assignments in Kakatiya University, Warangal and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University in Hyderabad. He went on to work as registrar and the dean of social sciences in the same university. He authored 13 books and several research papers in national and international journals, apart from penning hundreds of articles in newspapers on Telangana politics, society, arts and culture. He was fellow at India China Institute, New School, New York for two years to understand the impact of globalisation and urbanisation on India and China. He travelled widely across the globe on various assignments.

The young academician is a strong votary of separate Telangana and played an important role in the movement prior to the formation of the new state. Now he hopes to do justice to the unemployed by presiding over the massive recruitment drive.

—sreenivasa@khaleejtimes.com