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EACH DISTRICT has 30 to 40 mandals, as against 60 to 70 earlier. In the three-tier system, zonal cadre staff could be transferred to 250 to 300 mandals, that number now comes down.
ACCORDING TO Telangana state employees’ associations, there are about 3 lakh employees of whom half are teachers and about 50,000 are in zonal cadre.