Right after the lights of Diwali fade and the day after Bhaubeej wraps up, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that appointment letters will be handed to more than 1,200 selected candidates in the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Department — kicking off what he calls an unbroken chain of job distributions for the state's youth.

The Chief Minister's Office of Uttar Pradesh shared the announcement on Friday, 6 November 2026, with CM Yogi stating: 'The continuous process of giving appointment letters to youth will go on without interruption.' The post lays out a three-stage rollout that touches tens of thousands of candidates across revenue administration, the auxiliary police force, and the regular constabulary.

42,000 Home Guards Next in Line

Immediately after the revenue appointments, the focus shifts to a far larger cohort. The Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board will distribute appointment letters to 42,000 Home Guards — members of the state's auxiliary volunteer force that supports regular police in security and disaster-response duties. This single tranche alone would rank among the largest single-day government hiring events in the state's recent history.

The UP Home Guards have historically been a first point of government employment for rural and semi-urban youth across Uttar Pradesh's 75 districts. Folding them into the formal appointment-letter pipeline signals that this wave of hiring is being treated with the same institutional weight as regular police recruitment.

32,000 Constable and Head Constable Slots Cleared — Verification Underway

The third and largest tranche involves 32,000 constable and head constable positions within the Uttar Pradesh Police. CM Yogi confirmed that the recruitment process for these posts is complete. Document verification is currently in progress, and appointment letters will be issued as soon as that stage concludes.

The recruitment and verification pipeline for constable-level posts is notoriously multi-layered — physical fitness records, educational certificates, and character verification by local police stations all require sign-off. The government's public commitment to issue letters 'immediately after verification is complete' puts a visible clock on the bureaucratic process.

A Diwali-Season Hiring Drive with Deep Political Roots

Since 2017, the Yogi government has conducted successive large-scale recruitment drives across the police and revenue departments, framing vacancy-filling as both administrative strengthening and direct employment delivery to the state's vast young population. Uttar Pradesh, with a population exceeding 240 million, consistently produces one of the country's largest pools of government-job aspirants.

Timing the Revenue Department letter distribution to the day after Bhaubeej — a festival that celebrates sibling bonds and falls the morning after Diwali — carries unmistakable symbolism: the government presents itself as the first institution to act once the festive season closes. The sequence of announcements, from revenue clerks to home guards to constables, is designed to keep that message in circulation for weeks.

With verification for 32,000 constable posts still running and 42,000 Home Guard letters queued for dispatch, Uttar Pradesh's hiring calendar is set to stay crowded well into the winter session of the state legislature — and every letter distributed is a data point the government will want on the record.