The Jagan government released a job calendar yesterday, which was very much awaited by the youth of Andhra Pradesh. However, the job calendar resulted in a major backlash from the youth of the state, who were upset with the calendar.
Before Jagan came to power in 2019, he promised the people of Andhra Pradesh that a job calendar would be published by his government in January every year. However, the YSRCP government failed to do that in January 2020 and 2021. This upset the youth of the state greatly. Apart from that, the youth of AP is also not satisfied with the fact that most of the job notifications posted by the governments were honorarium jobs, of which 90% of jobs were given to those who were affiliated with the YSRCP government. There hasn’t been much cope for the creation of private sector or IT jobs in AP either, especially after the state lost Hyderabad.
The very first job calendar was also released by the YSRCP after YSRCP rebel MP Raghu Ramakrishna Raju wrote a letter to the CM, stating out the promises that the party had made, but not implemented. Following the release of this year’s calendar, the youth of the state were shocked to see the government’s large print and electronic advertisements stating that over 6 lakh job opportunities were created in the state. The youth pointed out that there were only 36 jobs available in Group 1 and 2 combined together. They stated that this was the first time that there was such a less number of jobs in those categories. They also pointed out that this forced them to prepare for other exams like Banking Staff Selection Commission. There was also outrage that the Jagan government did not include posts related to DSC and Police Constable jobs.
The AP government has received severe backlash to the job calendar that it released, which has now put them in a damage control mode. Hardcore fans of the YSRCP have also started to troll the party on social media platforms, and are creating memes on the government. As a result, the government is now said to be planning to release a new calendar with 25,000 teacher posts and 6,000 police posts as well. Experts say that the government has the potential to create as many as 40,000 real jobs. It is now to be seen how well the government will succeed in satisfying its youth this time around.