Andhra cabinet clears 10,060 direct recruitments, big investments

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu chaired a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that approved the direct recruitment of 10,060 vacant posts across state government departments through APPSC, APSLPRB, and DSC. The cabinet also cleared a draft bill to establish private skills universities, set up Centres of Excellence for BC students, and sanctioned multi-crore infrastructure and investment projects.

The cabinet approved investment proposals including Rs 58,743 crore for a 486 MW data centre by Data Centre Holdings India LLP, Rs 85,200 crore for a 1,000 MW facility by ReNew AP Green Data Centre, and Rs 31,387 crore for an AI data centre by AM Intelligence Labs. Other approvals included a Rs 450-crore surveillance plant by AIL Dixon Technologies, a Rs 500-crore lithium battery unit by Munoth Lithium, and Rs 7,469.46 crore for urban development works under the Hybrid Annuity Model. The cabinet also authorised land acquisition for a railway line and Inner Ring Road in Guntur district, and sanctioned revised estimates for the 950 MW Kamalapadu pumped storage hydro project.