Telangana government has decided to appoint 9,200 new village panchayat secretaries to enable all villages make all-around progress, in a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday.
The recruitment, which will start within a week, will be completed within two months. He announced that one panchayat secretary would be appointed to each of the 9,200 villages.
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Once recruited they will be on probation for three years and will be regularised later based on their performance only, and non-performers will not be continued further. The recruitment will be through the panchayat raj department and the secretaries will be of district cadre.
The state has 12,751 village panchayats as per the new Panchayat Act. The older 3,562 village panchayats have regular secretaries as of now.
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