The CR Kamalanathan
Committee is likely to seek clarification from the Centre whether to
take the heads of departments notified by the presidential order before
2007 or take all those created later for allocation of state-cadre
employees.
There were 56 heads of departments (HoDs) in the
presidential order. Some more have been created and 109 posts upgraded
as HoDs since 2007, taking the total number of HoDs to 227.
While
distributing the HoDs, if all of them are taken into consideration,
Seemandhra employees are likely to get prime posts in the new Telangana
state.
Its is alleged that some posts were upgraded as HoDs only
to accommodate non-local Andhras in Telangana, a violation of the
presidential order.
Before finalising the guidelines for
allocation of around 56,000 state-cadre employees, the Kamalanathan
Committee is going to seek a clarification on the status of HoDs. “The
central government has to notify the HoDs,” an officer dealing with
allocation of employees told Express.
The original HoDs notified
in the presidential order have cadre management authority. For example,
the post of DGP was a cadre management authority. But several other
HoDs, upgraded after 2007, will not have cadre management authority. For
example, the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police commissioner posts have
been upgraded as HoDs, though only for financial management. The chiefs
of SPF, APSP, Intelligence and others are not HoDs as far as the Centre
is concerned. Once the Centre notifies the HoDs, the Kamalanathan
Committee will finalise the modalities for allocation of employees,
sources said. These modalities are to be approved by the prime minister.
“Once guidelines are ready, the allocation will not take much time,” an
officer said.
The sources also point out that the HoDs upgraded
for release of funds or financial management would be no more relevant.
Because the finance department has prepared a Comprehensive Financial
Management System (CFMS). Once the CFMS is in place, there is no need
for more number of HoDs for financial management in their respective
departments. The money will go online directly to the officer concerned.
The
CFMS is likely to be introduced after Assembly polls on a pilot basis
in Nalognda, Karimnagar, Ranga Reddy, Guntur and Chittoor districts.
AP Secretariat Association secretary A Padma Chary says that the Centre
has to take only those HoDs as notified in the Presidential order.
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