Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy claims his government created 6 lakh employment in three years

Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy says his govt created over 6 lakh jobs in just three years. The YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh, Friday said it has fulfilled yet another election promise and increased the number of recruitments in government jobs and in just three years, over 6,16,323 jobs have been created since June 2019.

A statement from Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s office said that the government has created 2,06,638 permanent jobs, 37,908 contract jobs and 3,71,777 outsourced jobs in the state. Out of 3,85,977, 1,25,110 persons were recruited as regular employees while 2,60,867 are working on contractual basis. This is the single largest recruitment in the state, officials said. The state government has done recruitment in 21 departments apart from recruitment of village and ward secretariat volunteers and APSRTC.

CMO officials said that the highlight of the recruitment was giving jobs to candidates who cleared the District Selection Committee (DSC) exam in 1998 and 2008 to qualify as teachers in public schools. CM Jagan also said that the investments in the state have been growing, and noted that Andhra Pradesh has competed with 17 states to get the Bulk Drugs Park at Kakinada, which is expected to provide jobs to around 35,000 people.

He said that Andhra Pradesh has been rapidly growing in the industrial sector and achieved a growth rate of 11.74%, apart from generating employment and encouraging self-employment. He said that in the past three years, 99 industries have picked up steam in the state with an investment of Rs 46,280 crore, providing jobs to 62,541 people.

agan said around 40,000 more jobs would be generated through four Union government Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) that would soon be coming up. The state has been doing well in Ease of Doing Business (EoDB), Jagan said. “