KCR takes a bold decision ahead of the elections and completely abolished the VRA system. CM KCR after a review meet on the VRA system said “We have scrapped the VRA system as it is a symbol of feudalism,” CM KCR directed Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari to issue a GO allocating VRAs in various departments on Monday.
Speaking to the media after his decision, KCR said "Keeping in mind the circumstances and social transmission, the government must take hard decisions to ensure job security to state government employees. It is towards this that the government has decided to regularise thousands of VRAs as government employees,"
This implies that approximately 20,555 VRAs would get government jobs. Among the VRAs are illiterates, those who have studied till Class VII, Class X, Intermediate, graduates and postgraduates.
The Chief Minister also decided to provide government jobs to the kin of VRAs, who are above 61 years, under compassionate appointments. He also announced that government jobs would be given to one of the family members of VRAs who died while performing duties after June 2, 2014.
VRA JAC leaders later met CM KCR and thanked him for his decision and providing government jobs and also regularising their jobs with the pay scale.
