Spare our officers : CS to EC

Express News Service
Hyderabad, March 5:

Chief Secretary PK Mohanty requested the Election Commission India (ECI) to spare the IAS officers from the state from the election related work. Normally, the IAS officers from one state will go to another state as election observers during general elections.
  But, this time the State was in a peculiar situation. Almost all IAS officers were busy with the State's division work and bifurcating their respective departments into two. The bifurcation work is a hectic one and they have to complete the entire division work, including photo copying or digitalising files in all the departments before June 2, the day on officially two states will form.
 However, for the general elections, the ECI wanted the State administration to allot at least 100 IAS officers for election work. Initially, the State administration agreed to send around 50 IAS officers. But, with the heavy work of division on hand and deadline is fast approaching, the Chief Secretary reportedly informed the ECI that Andhra Pradesh could not even spare even 25 IAS officers.
According to sources, the Chief Secretary informed the ECI that they could not utilise the services of officers below the cadre of Secretary level.

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