Telangana Government Announces Massive Recruitment Drive For Over 11,000 Teachers

A notification was issued by the Telangana government on Thursday to fill up more than 11,000 vacant posts, including secondary grade teachers and school assistants.

According to the new notification, the recruitment drive will be conducted for the posts of School Assistants, Secondary Grade Teachers, Language Pandits, and Physical Education Teachers in the primary level in the category of Secondary Grade Teacher and Special Education Teachers in the upper primary/secondary level in the category of School Assistant under government and local body schools through the District Selection Committee (DSC-2024) system.

Massive Recruitment Drive For Over 11,000 Teachers

A notification had been earlier issued by the government in September 2023 (when BRS was in power) for filling up 5,089 teacher posts through DSC-2023. On February 26, 2024, permission was granted by the Revanth Reddy government to fill up 4,957 Direct Recruitment teacher posts and also to hire 796 Special Education Teachers at the primary level and 220 Special Education Teachers in the upper primary level totalling 11,062 posts for DSC-2024.

In view of this, the DSC-2023 notification was cancelled by the government. Candidates are required to apply online for the positions from March 4, 2023, to April 2, 2024. Those who had applied earlier in response to DSC-2023 need not apply again.

The candidates should be a minimum of 18 years of age and a maximum of 46 years, the notification said. The written test will be conducted online in 11 cities in the state. The date of the examination will be announced soon, it added. The Congress government had promised to fill up two lakh job vacancies within a year. It was recently stated that appointment letters had been handed to 25,000 youth.