Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is betting on drones, electric vehicles, and overseas jobs to rewrite the employment story for the state's youth — and on Friday, July 31, 2026, he turned that bet into a set of concrete directives at a high-level review of the Skill Department.

Research Centre at Young India Skill University

At the top of the Chief Minister's agenda: a state-of-the-art research centre at the Young India Skill University. Revanth Reddy directed officials to establish the facility, pairing it with a mandate that students at government engineering colleges receive real industry internship opportunities. The logic is direct — classroom credentials mean little without factory-floor exposure.

Minister Vivek Venkataswamy, who holds the Skill portfolio, sat alongside senior departmental officers as the CM worked through the agenda point by point.

EV Servicing and Drone Tech Enter the Curriculum

Revanth Reddy specifically called out EV servicing and drone technology as courses that must be introduced at Advanced Training Centres (ATCs) across the state. These are not speculative future sectors — they are industries already hiring at scale, and Telangana's training infrastructure has lagged behind. The instruction to the department was unambiguous: catch up now.

The move fits a pattern the current Congress-led government has pursued since taking charge in December 2023 — aligning public institutions with the actual shape of the job market rather than the shape of legacy syllabi.

TOMCOM Gets a Bigger Mandate

Perhaps the most expansive directive of the review concerned TOMCOM — the Telangana Overseas Manpower Company. The CM ordered that the agency be strengthened into a one-stop system: foreign language training, passport facilitation, and direct placement in overseas companies, all under one roof. 'Videsheeka bhashala shikshana nundi passport sadupayalu, videsheeka companies lo udyogala varaku' — from foreign language training to jobs abroad — the CM framed TOMCOM's new scope in full.

For a state with a large diaspora and a young population hungry for global opportunities, a well-functioning TOMCOM is not a bureaucratic nicety. It is a pipeline.

Nursing Colleges and the Demand-Driven Approach

The review also addressed the healthcare training sector. The government indicated it will grant approvals to nursing colleges in line with actual industry demand — a signal that expansion in this sector will be calibrated rather than unchecked. Skill development, the CM stated, is the vehicle through which Telangana's youth will be prepared for the global job market.

Telangana's skill ecosystem has been a work in progress since the state's formation in 2014, with successive governments layering new institutions and schemes onto the base. What the current administration is attempting is integration — connecting the research centre, the ATCs, the engineering colleges, and TOMCOM into a coherent pipeline from classroom to career, domestic or international.

The directives are set. The test now is whether the departments can execute at the pace the CM's review room demanded.