Yogi Adityanath government is strategizing a substantial effort to give youths government jobs around the state, before the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. In the upcoming 2026 election year, the state hopes to provide some two lakh youths with government jobs. In this recruitment drive, both those positions that will be posted in 2025 and those ones that will be posted in the next few months will be advertised.
The decision follows the experiences of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where unemployment was one of the main issues highlighted by voters, particularly the young generation. To deal with this problem, the state government has increased preparation to accelerate recruitment by using different recruiting organizations.
These are the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission, the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission, the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission and the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board. They said the new jobs will be predominantly in the police and education departments.
Recently, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath conducted a high level review meeting on government recruitments. In the meeting, he instructed all the departments to forward the details of vacant posts to the relevant recruitment boards and commissions immediately.
During the first assessment round it was established that advertisement of an approximate of 1.5 lakh new posts are set to be given shortly. Besides this, there are over 20,000 pending recruitment processes, which will be attended to in the next few months.
According to the state government, in the previous eight and a half years, approximately 8.5 lakh young people have already received government employment. It is planned to offer jobs to 1.5 lakh more young people within the first one to one-and-a-quarter years.
By meeting this target, the government is assured of providing 10 lakh jobs in the state government in the past ten years, which the government boasts that no other government has done in Uttar Pradesh.
According to official records, education and police departments are the leading most appointed departments under the current government. In these two sectors alone, approximately 2.19 lakh vacancies have been occupied to date.
After the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, unemployment has turned into a very delicate political matter. People were worried about unemployment and the purported leaks in exams, and most people feel that youth discontent influenced the BJP performance.
Political analysts affirm that unemployment is one of the issues that cross cut across caste, community, and region that bring young voters together. Consequently, the issue of job creation is no longer considered as a governance matter, but an electoral concern to the ruling party.
The chief minister himself is keeping check of the performance of the chief recruitment organs such as the Public Service Commission, Subordinate Services Selection Commission, Education Service Selection Commission and the Police Recruitment Board.
The emphasis is on ensuring that all the pending recruitments are done by June 2026 and that new applications are also processed in an expedited manner to demonstrate that government hiring is in progress.
The government can also take a chance of announcing other recruitments after examining the political environment after the 2026 panchayat elections and evaluating the general mood before the Assembly polls.
In the meantime, the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission has been changing and it is not doing well as it is supposed to do. Recently, the government did accept the resignation of its chairperson, Dr Kirti Pandey, and made former Director General of Police Prashant Kumar to be its new chairman.
It is also proposed to recruit 41,424 home guards in 2026. The deadline to apply to such posts was December 17, and the recruitment process should be finished by July 2026.
This recruitment effort was further boosted when the Subordinate Services Selection Commission announced that it was recruiting 7,994 lekhpal positions.
But this has brought about a political debate on the calculation of the reservations with the Samajwadi Party claiming that OBC candidates were allotted less number of posts than the quota they deserved. After the argument, various departments have begun to look at reservation details when recruiting.
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Regardless of the ambitious plan, officials acknowledge some challenges. These involve filling vacancies in good time, holding examinations without leaks, cheating, carrying out interviews promptly and not being tied up by a protracted legal battle in a higher court making the recruitment processes take longer than expected.
