crucial meet on division on March 13

Express News Service
Hyderabad, March 11:
      A crucial meeting on allocation of around 56,000 State-cadre employees will be held by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in Delhi on March 13. Apart from the officials of DoPT, CR Kamalanathan and Chief Secretary PK Mohanty will attend the meeting.
 This meeting will broadly frame guideline on how to allocate the State government employees between Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh.
 Kamalanathan called on Chief Secretary at Secretariat on Tuesday and discussed the issues relating to the employees' allocation. This issues will be placed before the DoPT meeting on March 13, official sources said.
 The AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 gave options to the State-cadre employees to chose either Telangana or Andhra Pradesh. This option was not given for the employees during the division of three states earlier. Keeping the special situations in the state like, zonal system, 371(D) and open category issue, the option itself was given in the Act to the state government employees.
 The committee to allocate government officers was constituted only after the appointed day in the three other states. It took almost three to four years to allocate the employees in three states Chaattisgarh, Jarkhand and Uttarakhand. But, allocating employees in Andhra Pradesh was constituted well before the appointed day. "The idea is to allocate on or before the appointed day. There were court cases in allocating the employees in three states. The Centre is intended to avoid court cases and complications in allocation of employees in Andhra Pradesh," an official said after the meeting with Kamalnathan on Tuesday.
 What will be the structure of each government department and how to allocate employees and to close or merger of certain departments like Oilfed, Oil Seeds Corporation were broadly discussed on Tuesday. "We will give inputs to the Central government, which ultimately take a final decision. The Kamalnathan Committee is likely to consult the employees associations and take their suggestions," said an officer. There were 37 departments in Secretariat and there were 57 AIS officers.
POLICE: Meanwhile, Home Department principal secretary TP Das held a meeting with top officials of Police, Prisons, APSP, Fire and others on how to share the police force. Das also held a separate meeting with officials concerned on setting up of training centres in residuary AP for OCTOPUS and Greyhounds. Das reportedly directed the officials to prepare estimates for setting up of training centres in residuary AP. "The location of training centres is not yet decided," an official told Express.
 According to sources there were currently 17 APSP Battalions in the state. "We need more battalions for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. We will also place requisition for more battalions and personnel. There is no proposal to wind up SPF wing," an officer said. Police were part of the 56,000 state-cadre officers to be allocated between two states. Above DySP rank comes under state cadre and the CIs comes under zonal category.

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