G.O. Ms. No. 81 puts 10,060 direct-recruitment posts on a four-phase calendar. The gazette is a permission, not an admit card.

Ten thousand and sixty is the headcount. Four phases is the clock. A government order is the paper.

On Saturday, 22 August 2026, the Andhra Pradesh government issued G.O. Ms. No. 81. It permits the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission, the State-Level Police Recruitment Board, District Selection Committees and other recruiting agencies to fill 10,060 vacancies by direct recruitment under Job Calendar-2026. Permit is the verb. Fill is the aim. An admit card is a later paper. This desk will not print one from Saturday’s gazette.

Phase-I is 1,523 posts already notified by the Higher Education Department on 15 May 2026. Already notified means the calendar is catching a list that left the gate in May. Phase-II is 3,231 posts, notification dated 15 September 2026. Phase-III is 2,311 and Phase-IV is 2,995, both notifications on 15 October 2026. Add them: 1,523 plus 3,231 plus 2,311 plus 2,995 is 10,060. The arithmetic matches the headcount. This desk will keep the phases labelled and will not move a September notification into May.

The government order says recruitment is phased through an Annual Job Calendar. Policy priorities listed are infrastructure creation, revenue mobilisation, education, welfare, and law and order. A Group of Ministers on employment generation recommended rationalisation against functional need, department criticality, public service delivery and Swarnandhra-2047. Recommendation is not a vacancy list. Swarnandhra-2047 is a horizon named on the order, not a hiring date.

Departments and heads of department were told to confirm vacancies, roster points and qualifications to recruiting bodies in advance. Recruitment is to follow the Presidential Order, 2025, reservation policy, service rules, rosters and other statutory instructions. Presidential Order, 2025, is the localisation lock named on this card. This desk will not invent a zone-wise percentage that is not written here.

The vacancy split on the public card is agency-and-group, not post-title. Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission Group-I: 149. Other than Group-I: 3,082. Group-II: 673. Engineering and Other Departments: 1,638. School Education: 2,995. Those five lines are the only split this desk will print. It will not invent deputy-collector counts, deputy-superintendent-of-police counts, or teacher-cadre sub-totals that are not on this filing. A reader who wants a post-wise schedule will have to wait for the recruiting agency’s own notification.

Vijayawada is the dateline. NTR district holds it. The recruiting bodies named are the Commission, the police board and the District Selection Committees. Member names of the Group of Ministers are not on this card. This desk will not supply them.

What Saturday was not is an examination. It was not a leak inquiry. It was not a cancelled paper. Those stories live, if they live, on other cuttings. This filing is a gazetted calendar. A calendar can be published and still leave every candidate waiting for a notification date that belongs to Phase-II, Phase-III or Phase-IV. Phase-I’s 1,523 are the only posts this card marks as already notified, and that notification is the Higher Education list of 15 May.

The honest picture is G.O. Ms. No. 81 dated 22 August 2026, 10,060 direct-recruitment vacancies, Phase-I 1,523 already notified on 15 May, Phase-II 3,231 on 15 September, Phase-III 2,311 and Phase-IV 2,995 on 15 October, a split of 149 Group-I, 3,082 other than Group-I, 673 Group-II, 1,638 Engineering and Other, and 2,995 School Education, and a Presidential Order, 2025, instruction to follow. Until an agency issues the next notification, the Job Calendar is a permission with dates. It is not a hall ticket.