ORDER:

Employees are the most important assets of the Government and skilled and qualified human resources are essential for effective public service delivery. It is the stated policy of the Government to take up recruitment in a structured and phased manner through an Annual Job Calendar. The main policy priorities of the Government are infrastructure creation, revenue mobilisation, education, welfare, law and order etc., Considering these policy priorities, the Group of Ministers entrusted with employment generation examined the suitability and necessity of posts to be filled and recommended rationalisation and prioritisation of the posts with reference to functional requirement, criticality of Departments, public service delivery and the objectives of Swarnandhra@2047.

2. Accordingly, the Job Calendar 2026 was finalised in consultation with the concerned Departments. The Job Calendar comprises 10,060 Direct Recruitment vacancies to be notified in four phases. Phase-I vacancies of 1,523 posts have already been notified by the Higher Education Department. The remaining vacancies will be notified in the subsequent three phases as mentioned below:

3. Government, accordingly, hereby accord permission to the concerned Recruiting Agencies, namely APPSC, APSLPRB, DSC etc., to fill up 10,060 vacancies in various Departments through Direct Recruitment. The details of the 10,060 vacancies, phase wise are given in Annexures appended to this order.

4. All Administrative Departments and Heads of Departments concerned shall furnish/confirm the vacancy particulars, roster points, qualifications and other such required details for the posts mentioned in the annexures to the respective Recruiting Agencies sufficiently in advance.

5. The concerned Departments and Recruiting Agencies shall ensure that recruitment is undertaken strictly in accordance with the Presidential Order, 2025, reservation policy, relevant service rules, roster requirements and other applicable statutory/Government instructions.

6. The G.O. is available on internet and can be accessed at http://goir.ap.gov.in/