Zero Week' for Govt Staff from May 25

By VV Balakrishna - HYDERABAD

Published: 05th May 2014 08:53 AM

Last Updated: 05th May 2014 08:58 AM

    For the first time, the administration in Andhra Pradesh will come to a grinding halt for a week from May 25 to May 31. This week is being called by officials as “zero week”. No policy matters will be handled, and no payments, including TA & DA, will be made during this period. The week will be left to the employees to pack up and leave their present offices and move to new office rooms on the same Secretariat premises. Employees will shift their belongings, including furniture, computers, hard discs and files. The staff will take their pay for the month of May on May 24 itself. Employees allocated to Seemandhra will move from their present office rooms to new offices and the Telangana employees will vacate rooms in J, K, L and H blocks and go to A, B, C and D. IAS officers will be allocated to both AP and Telangana by May 28. After the “zero week”, the staff will take a day’s break on June 1 and will work for their respective states from June 2. Meanwhile, the government sought waiver of Central loans up to `17,000 crore released earlier to avoid the problem of distributing them between the two States.