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Saturday 12 April 2014

Panel Split on Staff Allocation Norms

Published: 12th April 2014 09:13 AM
Last Updated: 12th April 2014 09:13 AM
Differences of opinion have cropped at the state advisory committee meeting in finalising the guidelines on allocation of state-cadre employees between Telangana and Seemandhra states.
The meeting, chaired by committee chairman CR Kamalanathan, was held at the Secretariat on Friday and was attended by  joint secretary in the department of personnel & training Archana Varma, chief secretary PK Mohanty and three other members.
A majority of the members proposed allocation of Telangana employees to Telangana and Seemandhra employees to AP state on provisional basis, basing on their places of birth. The options from employees could be taken after the Appointed Day.
Of the 56,000-odd state-cadre employees, around 30,000 belong to Telangana and 26,000 to Seemandhra.
With the representations by various Telangana employee unions to the chief secretary recently that no Seemandhra employee should work in the Telangana secretariat, a majority members of the  advisory committee felt that employees born in Telangana should be allocated to Telangana and those born in Seemandhra to  AP provisionally. The option facility should be given to employees only after the Appointed Day. The members who supported this idea referred to provisions 76 (1) and (2) of the AP Reorganisation Act.
However, some members argued in support of Seemandhra and opposed the allocation on the basis of birth place. They felt that if the options were given after the Appointed Day, there would be two chief ministers and the employees may face problems from moving one state to other state.
Though it was its fourth meeting, the committee could not take any decision. “There is no progress at this meeting,” said an officer.
“We want to make a provisional allocation of employees. The final allocation can take place after the Appointed Day,” an officer who considered the representations from Telangana employees argued at the meeting.

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