V. V. Balakrishna Journalist: June 2014

Tuesday 10 June 2014

Telangana to Adapt 600 Acts of United AP

HYDERABAD: The Telangana State has to adapt as many as 600 Acts of Andhra Pradesh for regular functioning of the administration. Without these Acts, the government could not function. The Law Department has initiated measures to adapt the Acts. However, the Acts need not be referred to the Telangana Assembly for two years. The AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, provides an opportunity to Telangana Chief Minister to adapt the Acts with the consent of the Governor. The executive process is sufficient in this direction. If the Telangana government wanted to amend a particular Act, then the government may refer it the State Assembly. “It will take a lot of time, if all the 600 Acts are referred to the Assembly,” sources in the Law Department told Express. The Reorganisation Act gave leverage to the Chief Minister for two years. The officials also issued an internal circular to this effect to all the district collectors and senior officials about the position of the existing Acts and laws for the new states. Section 101 of the Reorganisation Act stated that: “For the purpose of facilitating the application in relation to the State of Andhra Pradesh or the State of Telangana of any law made before the appointed day, the appropriate Government may, before the expiration of two years from that day, by order, make such adaptations and modifications of the law, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or expedient, and thereupon every such law shall have effect subject to the adaptations and modifications so made until altered, repealed or amended by a competent Legislature or other competent authority.” The Law Department officials are also looking into the past judgments given by the Supreme Court. “In the State of Punjab and others Vs Balbir Singh and others case, the Supreme Court inter alia held that when there is no change of sovereignty and it is merely an adjustment of territories by reorganisation of a particular State, the administrative orders made by the Governor of erstwhile State continue to be in force and effective and binding on the successor States until and unless they are modified, changed or repudiated by the Governments of the successor States. It has also been observed that no other view is possible to be taken, as that will merely bring about chaos in the administration of new States,” the officials recalled in this connection. “The Supreme Court, while interpreting sections 84 and 85 of the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, held that the sections provide that the laws which were applicable to the undivided Bihar would continue to apply to the new States created by the Act.” In view of these two cases and sections 100, 101 and 101 of the AP Reorganisation Act, officials clarified: “All the laws applicable to the undivided AP will continue to apply to the new States of Telangana and AP. To facilitate their application in respect of Telangana and AP States, the appropriate government may, before the expiration of two years from June 2, by order, make such adaptations and modifications of the law, whether by way of repeal or amendment, and thereupon. Every such law adapted or modified will continue till it is altered, repealed or amended by Legislature or other competent authority, in the respective States.

Points to ponder
■ If the Telangana government wants to amend a particular Act, then the government may refer it the State Assembly. ■ The Reorganisation Act gave leverage to the Chief Minister for two years

Monday 2 June 2014

Transition Process to Take Another Week

Hyderabad: The transition process to divide work between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states is expected to be completed by June 9. "Most of the transition will be completed by June 9. The Transition Committee is to review on a daily basis and sort out any issues and submit a daily progress report to the chief secretaries of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh till June 9," an order issued by the government said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Transition Committee will first organise the office space allocated to them. As most of the floors in the Secretariat are allotted to more than one department, the senior-most secretary will be responsible to allocate office space on a particular floor to the staff. A clear layout plan, allocating rooms and workspaces to staff should be prepared by June 2.
This floor plan should indicate rooms for secretaries, for other senior staff and workspaces for sections. It should also indicate the location of record room and see that phones, faxes, computers, printers should also be made fully functional.
All secretaries and heads of departments are required to allocate subjects amongst the employees ordered to serve the state of Telangana and the remaining employees of Andhra Pradesh. As both the successor states would have less number of employees, the subjects are to be allotted by clubbing similar topics. This exercise is to be completed by June 3.
Employees ordered to serve the state of Telangana are to be relieved on June 2. However, they will be responsible to hand over all the files, movable assets and all other items under their custody to their identified counterpart in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The handing of files should be completed by June 9.
Each employee of Andhra Pradesh should have a counterpart (s) in Telangana state and vice versa.
In the Secretariat, certain departments are allocated the same office space that they are currently occupying. In such cases, the committee should make sure that space is created for incoming staff and new departments allotted to that floor. The movement of files and other movable assets can take place once such space is earmarked.
No Due Certificate: All handing over and taking over is to be done under proper certification by each employee who is handing over and his /her counterpart taking over from the other state.
Only after complete hand-over, a 'No Due' certificate may be issued by the officer in charge of OP section. The production of 'No Due' certificate is mandatory for drawing salary for the month of June.

Sunday 1 June 2014

State Govt Guarantees, PPP Projects Also Apportioned

HYDERABAD: The state government divided the outstanding government guarantees given to various departments including Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board and others for obtaining loans. As part of the division of the state, the government also apportioned the outstanding guarantees between two states. The guarantees were given by the government to 21 institutions, of which, the AP state amount is around 14,000 crore and the Telangana amount is around Rs 17,000 crore. The guarantee given to AP Transco, the principal amount apportioned is Rs 3,960 crore to AP and Rs 5,594 crore to Telangana state. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is located in Telangana, the entire counter guarantee amount goes to T-state. Meanwhile, the state government also decided to write off outstanding loans and advances sanctioned earlier to AP State Road Development Corporation and others
PPP PROJECTS:
The government also apportioned the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects between AP and Telangana. A separate PPP Cell was created to Telangana state. The new URL for AP is www.ppp. ap.gov.in and the new URL for Telangana state is www. ppp.tg.gov.in. The summary of PPP projects in AP as on May 31: The total projects 31, initiating amount Rs 22,799.35 crore and bidding amount Rs 8,265.13 crore. Under operation or completed projects are 101 and the amount is Rs 24,663.97 crore. The total PPP projects in combined state are 180 involving a total amount of Rs 75,882.73 crore. The successor State governments may update wherever necessary the content, including state logo, state name, information on the State officials, information on PPP projects in their respective websites. They may also delete the information which is not pertaining to their respective statee and may start using the new websites after comprehensively validating the data in websites. Orders to this effect were issued on Saturday by Finance Departments.

Rousing Reception Awaits First T CM

HYDERABAD: Rousing reception awaits first chief minster of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao at the Secretariat on Monday. Immediately after the swearingin ceremony on June 2, Rao will go to the Secretariat in a bullet-proof vehicle. He will step down from his vehicle at Nalla Pochamma temple, a few yards away from the C Block. He will have darshan of Nalla Pochamma, where a large number of Telangana Secretariat staff will give him a rousing reception. Rao will leave his car at the temple and walk up to CBlock along with Telangana employees. Top police officials on Saturday discussed the security measures to be taken to protect the ‘VIP’ as he will be walking from Pochamnma temple to C Block. After assuming charge as Chief Minister, Rao will address the Telangana employees from a specially arranged dais. The workers are busy on Saturday to erect a huge dais with iron grills in front of C Block. Rao will address the T-employees, whose role in Telangana movement is unforgettable. Meanwhile, all the four blocks allotted to Telangana state in Secretariat are decked up with serial bulbs. The C Block, from where Telangana chief minster will function, will be decorated with flowers. Especially, the fifth and sixth floors of C Block, which houses the chief minister’s office and other peshis, will be decked up.

Transition Plan Devised for Smooth Division of Staff and Assets

HYDERABAD: The state government has devised a plan for the smooth implementation of allocation of staff, assets, buildings between AP and Telangana states. The Transition Plan (TP) will be executed under the supervision of the chief secretary until the Appointed Day and, thereafter, under the joint supervision of the chief secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states. Compliance reports shall be furnished to the respective chief secretaries and the State Reorganisation Cell with copy marked to Governor’s Office on a weekly basis. The principal objectives of the Transition Plan are to: ensure smooth reorganisation of the existing state of Andhra Pradesh in accordance with the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act provisions, to establish functioning Secretariat and head of department offices/corporations/ societies/training institutions, etc. to serve the governments of Telangana and AP and address issues likely to arise in both states, especially during the period of one to three months after the Appointed Day and undertake preparatory/remedial measures. Transition Committees are set up at Secretariat, HoDs and corporations/ companies level. The committees will take possession of the office space allocated to the respective departments of both the states. The secretaries of the new states shall ensure that appropriate organograms are prepared for Secretariat and HOD offices, allocating work to officers. The committees also ensure management of files, movable assets, legal matters, contracts, personnel, management of schemes and programmes. Management of corporations, societies and institutions is also the task of transition committees. The government established an apex committee to provide strategic and operational guidance and support to the state reorganisation process until the Appointed Day. However, several issues relating to the state reorganisation would linger for a long while after the Appointed Day and several other matters would require close collaboration and coordination between the two States.
APEX COMMITTEE:
An Apex Coordination Committee (ACC) on State Reorganisation matters is established with the following: Chief secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, cochairpersons, planning secretary/state development commissioners of AP and Telangana, home, finance, irrigation, energy, higher education, industry and public enterprises secretaries and others dealing with state reorganisation or those specially nominated by the chief secretary of AP will be the members-secretary of the committee. The Apex Coordination Committee will meet every week on a designated day/ periodically to review all issues relating to state reorganisation, with specific reference to allocation of staff, assets and liabilities, files, etc. Its main responsibility will be to ensure close coordination and collaboration between the two States on all matters relating to governance and resolution of contentious issues, if any, amicably.
SRC:
On the advice of the central government, a State Reorganisation Cell (SRC) was established to provide effective support to the Advisory Committee for allocation of state cadre employees. Since the principal responsibility for final allocation of state cadre employees will devolve to the residual State of Andhra Pradesh with the committee chaired by CR Kamalanathan being housed in the Andhra Pradesh Government, the State Reorganisation Cell may have the chief secretaries of the two state governments, replacing the chief secretary of the combined state. The new government of Andhra Pradesh will nominate the member-secretary of the cell/committee secretary dealing with state reorganisation or a specially-designated secretary. Similarly, the state of Telangana shall nominate a department and secretary for State Reorganisation which shall coordinate with the AP State reorganisation Committee and the State Advisory Committee.
GRIEVANCE REDRESS:
All the grievances of employees issued with provisional ‘order to serve’ by the Central government and other aspects of state reorganisation will be received by the principal secretary/Secretary in charge of the concerned department who will refer the same to State Reorganisation Cell in the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh. Thereafter, they will be referred to the Apex Coordination Committees for redress - through the secretary in charge of State Reorganisation. The Apex Coordination Committee shall liaise with the State Reorganisation Departments of both states. The state of Telanagna may also constitute a state reorganisation unit which will examine/ analyse the issues that need to be put up to the Apex Coordination Committee for consideration.

Technology Hastens, Smoothens Division

HYDERABAD: Around five youths, who are IT professionals at the Centre for Good Governance (CGG), helped the state government in the division process. The latest IT software came in handy for the division of the state. Unlike bifurcation of other states, there has been a vast improvement in technology at the time of bifurcation of AP. Most other states like Punjab and MP did the work manually. But, around five youths working as IT professionals at CGG developed an exclusive software for the division work. “Five persons supported by another five youths prepared the entire software at CGG. Normally, preparing such a software will take at least three years and costs government around Rs 3 crore. But, the CGG youths prepared the software in a short span of time with much less amount,” Principal secretary (Finance) PV Ramesh told reporters. An exclusive software was necessary for the government to collect around 12.5 lakh government employees data through online. After the HoDs uploaded the data, the officials simply gave certain commands as per the Central government’s guidelines. Then, the software automatically allocated the employees for Telangana and AP. The software will also be useful for the officials for the final allocation of statecadre employees between AP and T. Without the help of IT, the gigantic task would take much more time to do it manually. “Today is the end of journey. It is a very challenging task. The most interesting work I have done in my career,” Finance secretary PV Ramesh told reporters on Saturday. The Finance Department is a nodal agency, which has to give clearance for sanctioning of any post in any department. That was why the role of Finance department is crucial in allocation of employees between two states. The CR Kamalanathan committee will start work from June 2 for final allocation. The provisional allocation work was done by the State government officials. The Kamalanathan committee in consultation with chief ministers of AP and T will frame the guidelines. Finally, the Prime Minister has to ratify the final allocations. The work will starting with identification of posts to personnel, calling for objections and allocating the staff will take three to six months time.
No Promotions to State Staff
Till the final allocation is made, there will be no promotions to state-cadre employees. But, the employees in local to multi-zonal posts may get promotions.

Telangana Given Over 9,800 Staff of State Cadre

Express News Service
Hyderabad, May 31:
As many 9,893 state-cadre employees are allocated to Telangana state on provisional basis on Saturday. The "order to serve" are being issued to individual employees on Sunday. Of the total allocated,
8,601 for Telangana Heads of Departments, 1,164 for Telangana Secretariat and 128 for Telangana Assembly.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) approved the allocation and sent the department-wise allocation lists to the State government officials on Saturday. The officials served the orders to some employees, available on Saturday and the remaining will be issued on Sunday. All the employees allocated to Telangana should report to duty on Monday, on the formation of Telangana state.
Of the 9,893 employees most of them belong to Telangana state. Around 300 employees belong to Seemandhra, official sources said.
The DoPT issued two different orders on Saturday. The first one brief order allocating all the local, district, zonal and mutli-zonal posts to be allocated to the respective states, where they are currently working.
The second order issued for the state-cadre employees. The order contained the names of state-cadre employees with department-wise lists.
"A grievance cell will be set up with Chief Secretaries of both AP and Telangana. Every department will have a grievance cell. If any employee have any doubt, the Central government will provide solution. If, necessary, the Centre may even revise the order of "order to serve. The State Reorganisation Cell secretary will monitor the entire process," Principal Secretary (Finance) PV Ramesh said. He added that the entire process of final allocation will be completed from three to six months time.
T-SURPLUS: As per the information, in the combined state, Telangana employees are 600 more than the sanctioned post, where as Seemandhra people are 67 more than the sanctioned strength. In HoDs, the Telangana people are around 4,000 surplus thant the actual posts and the Seemandhra employees are 2,600 less than the actual strength.

GRAPHIC
Total employees in combined state - 12.5 lakh
Secretariat employees - 4,046
State cadre employees - 65,000
Multi-zonal employees - 6,600
Zonal cadre employees - 1.43 lakh
District level employees - 10.32 lakh
Vacancies - 2.57 lakh

DIVISIBLE STATE-CADRE FORCE:
Total staff - 65,000
Vacancies - 18,000
Net divisible staff - 47,000

PROVISIONAL ALLOCATION TO T-STATE
Heads of Departments - 8,601
Secretariat - 1,164
T-Assembly 128
Total 9,893

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Rajiv Sharma may be Telangana cs

Express News Service
Hyderabad, May 30:
Rajiv Sharma, a 1982 batch IAS officer, is likely to be the chief secretary of Telanagana state.

Sharma, who is on central deputation, has been repatriated to his parent AP cadre to facilitate his posting.

Till now he was on central deputation. After his repatriation, he has been provisionally allotted to Telangana state. He acted as a liaison officer between the centre and the state on bifurcation.

The DoPT approved the proposal for his premature repatriation and issued an order to this effect on Friday.

44 IAS officers allocated to Telangana state

Express News Service
Hyderabad, May 30:

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) provisionally allocated 44 IAS officers to Telangana state on Friday.

In its orders the DoPT joint secretary PK Das stated that 44 IAS officers borne on the undivided cadre of AP to Telangana cadre with effect from June 2, till further orders.

The officers provisionally allocated to Telangana state are:

D Lakshmi Parthasaraty Bhaskar, AK Parida, Rajiv Sharma, K Pradeep Chandra, Shyam Kumar Sinha, Vinod Kumar Agrawal, Bibhu Prasad Acharya, T Radha, V Nagi Reddy, J Remond Peter, SK Joshi, Ajay Mishra, Suresh Chanda, Heera Lal Samariya, S Narsingh Rao, N Aravinda Reddy, Bhambal Ram Meena, Poonam Malakondiah, Vijay Kumar, Sunil Sharma, K Ramakrishna Rao, Harpreet Singh, Jayesh Ranjan, Vikas Raj, Busani Venkateswara Rao, N Siva Sankar, M Jagadeeswar, B Kishore, C Parthasarathi, VN Vishnu, RV Chandravadan, Sabyasachi Ghose, GD Aruna, B Venkatesham, V Anil Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Benhur Mahesh Dutt Ekka, B Janardhanreddy, L Shasidhar, Lav Aggarwal, Shailaja Ramaiyer, N Sridhar, A Ashok and Ahmed Nadeem.

IAS officers working in the jurisdiction of Telangana and working in the jurisdiction will for the respective states. IAS officers posted in offices having state-wide jurisdiction of united AP, except the officers allocated to Telangana, to the successor state of AP till further orders.
This provisional allocation shall not confer any right on any officer so allocated for being allocated to either of the successor sttes durin their final allocation in accordance with the provisions of the Reorganisation Act.

Govt Makes Provisional Allocation of Buildings

The office space for both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments is allocated in the Secretariat. The blocks were allocated department-wise for both the state. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister will function from L Block 8th floor, while Telangana Chief Minister will function from C Block. A, B, C and D Blocks allocated to Telangana and H, J, K and L Blocks are allocated to AP governmet. Chief Secretary PK Mohanty issued orders to this effect on Friday. The allocation is as follows:
The orders said that the government allocated provisinally the A, B, C and D Blocks in the existing Secretariat premises for the Secretariat of the State of Telangana; and J, K, L, H(South) and H(North) Blocks, for the Secretariat of the State of Andhra Pradesh, for the purpose of locating the respective Secretariats.
All Secretariat Departments will take necessary action and arrangements as per this transition plan.

TELENGANA SECRETARIAT - Allocation of Departments
A-Block
1st Floor: Environment, Forests, Science and Technology Department

2nd Floor: Information Technology and Communications Dept

3rd Floor: Law Dept

4th Floor: Home Dept

5th Floor: Transport, Roads and Buildings Dept

B-Block

1st Floor: General Administration (Elections) Dept

2nd Floor : General Administration Dept

3rd Floor: Youth Advancement, Tourism and Culture Dept

4th Floor : Irrigation and Command Area Development Dept

5th Floor : Irrigation and Command Area Development Dept

6th Floor : Irrigation and Command Area Development Dept

C-Block

1st Floor: General Administration Dept / Press Secretary to Chief Minister

2nd Floor: General Administration Dept

3rd Floor: Office of the Chief Secretary to Government / Cabinet Hall

4th Floor: Chief Minister’s Office, GAD, Conference Hall

5th Floor: Chief Minister’s Office and GAD.

6th Floor: Chief Minister’s Office

D-Block
1st Floor: Tribal Welfare, Social Welfare, Backward Classes Welfare, Minorities Welfare, Women, Children, Disabled and Senior Citizens Dept, School Education Dept and Higher Education Dept

2nd Floor: Agriculture and Cooperation Dept, Consumer Affairs, Food and Civil Supplies Dept, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Dept, Industries and Commerce Dept, Infrastructure and Investment Dept, Public Enterprises Dept, Labour, Employment, Training and Factories Dept, Energy Dept, Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Dept

3rd Floor : Municipal Administration and Urban Development Dept, Housing, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development,
Rural Water Supply, Health and Medical and Family Welfare Dept.

4th Floor : Finance, Revenue and Planning:

Andhra Pradesh Secretariat _ Provisional Allotment of space to Departments:

L - Block
1st Floor Municipal Administration and Urban Development and Housing

2nd Floor: Energy, Environment, Forests, Science and Technology and Youth Advancement, Tourism and Culture

3rd Floor: Health, Medical and Family Welfare and Women, Children, Disabled and Senior Citizens

4th Floor: Information Technology, Electronics and Communications, Industries and Commerce and Infrastructure and Investment, Public Enterprises, Labour, Employment, Training and Factories Department

5th Floor: Planning Department / Cabinet Hall

6th Floor: General Administration Department

7th Floor: Chief Secretary's Office, Video Conference Hall and other Secretaries of General
Administration Department

8th Floor: Chief Minister's Chamber, Chief Minister's Secretaries and other officers

J - Block
1st Floor: Law Library; and General Administration (SB) Department

2nd Floor: Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Dept, Agriculture and Cooperation Dept, Consumer Affairs, Food and Civil Supplies Dept

3rd Floor: School Education and Higher Education Dept,

4th Floor: Social Welfare, Tribal Welfare, Backward Classes Welfare and Minorities Welfare

5th Floor: Home Department, Transport, Roads and Buildings

6th Floor: Irrigation and Command Area Development and Irrigation and Command Area Development (Projects)

7th Floor: Panchayat Raj and Rural Development

8th Floor: Ministers' Chambers

North-H Block
1st Floor: General Administration (CRB), General Administration (Vigilance), Housing Society; Andhra Pradesh Technology Services, AP Secretariat Association

2nd Floor: Finance Department, Andhra Pradesh Vigilance Commission

3rd Floor: Finance

4th Floor: Revenue

South-H Block

1st Floor: Central Secretariat Library / Commissioner of Inquiries

2nd Floor: Ministers’ Chambers

3rd Floor: Ministers’ Chambers

K-Block

1st Floor: State Bank of Hyderabad, Telecom Office, Post office, Hospital and Service Associations

2nd Floor: Andhra Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer's Office, Ministers' Chambers, Service Associations, Mee Seva,
Unani and Ayurvedic Hospitals

3rd Floor: Law Department, Deputy Pay and Accounts Officer's Office, Co-operative Credit Society

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T, AP Staff of Secretariat Clash over Union’s Assets

HYDERABAD: Tension prevailed in the Secretariat here on Friday as Telangana employees insisted on bifurcation of assets of Secretariat Employees Association between AP and T employees. Secretariat Employees Association president U Murali Krishna and secretary A Padma Chary, along with the Seemandhra and Telangana employees, entered into a heated argument in their association hall.
The Secretariat has only one recognised union, of which both Telangana and Seemandhra employees are members. But, during the Telangana movement, Seemandhra employees and Telangana employees floated different organisations. For service matters like PRC and others, the Telangana and Seemandhra employees worked jointly in the recognised union. Now, with the state being divided, Telangana employees led by Padma Chary wanted division of the union too. The present room of the association is located in H-Block which has been allocated to the residuary state of AP.
Padma Chary, along with other Telangana employees, put up a board on Friday stating that the office room belonged to the Telangana Secretariat Employees Association, to which Association president Murali Krishna objected. Soon, Telangana and AP employees entered into a heated argument and police had to intervene to pacify the two groups.
Padma Chary said that Murali Krishna was not conducting general body meetings of the association, which promoted them to swing into action. He said that apart from membership fee amount, the gym and other assets had to be distributed between Telangana and AP employees. The matter was taken up with the chief secretary later.
Union Room
* Telangana employees wanted gym and other assets also to be distributed between the two states
* The matter was referred to the chief secretary

9k Telangana Employees to Get 'Order to Serve' Today

HYDERABAD: “No employee should feel aggrieved. The families of employees should not feel unhappy. This is our endeavour,” chief secretary P K Mohanty has told the Telangana and Seemandhra employees. The message has left a positive feeling among employees of both the regions.
Finally, the message is that Telangana employees will work for T and Seemandhra employees for residuary AP. After the message, the employees of both the regions, who attended a meeting with the chief secretary at the Secretariat on Friday were seen satisfied.
Any minor issues or mistakes in the allocation of employees could be resolved within three months, that is final allocation of staff, the employees felt. Though, officials expected fireworks at the meeting, it ended on a positive note.
Now, the “order to serve” will be issued by the DoPT by Saturday night and the state government will serve the orders to around 9,000 employees, all of them are from Telangana, to serve the T-state. The individual orders will be issued on Sunday.
The officials reportedly explained to the employee unions of Seemandhra and Telangana that both the chief ministers-designate of T and AP are in favour of allocation of state-cadre employees based on their nativity. The Telangana government will create supernumerary posts to absorb all the T-native staff.
“When new states are formed, there should be a positive atmosphere. The focus should be on development and constructive activities. Employees should not feel aggrieved, which may reduce the work efficiency,” the officials felt.
The final allocation will start on June 9. There will be a meeting every 15 days. If any employee has any problem, it can be resolved.
After the meeting, Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee (TEJAC) leader G Devi Prasad said that they could not blame state government officials for minor issues and the fault lay with the central government. “We doubt that some Seemandhra employees produced fake nativity certificates. We will decide on such issues after the provisional allocation is made,” he said and added that all the Telangana employees would work for the Telangana state.
Another leader C Vithal said that the chief secretary had assured him that his case would be resolved. Vithal was ordered to serve Seemandhra, which was opposed by T-employees. APNGOs president P Ashok Babu said that the allocation should be made based on the guidelines issued by the central government.
Secretariat to Work on Sunday?
Officials are contemplating declaring Sunday as a working day for the Secretariat for smooth transition and also finish the balance work of division. The official orders declaring Sunday as a working day have to be issued

Separate Links for MeeSeva Portals

HYDERABAD: In view of division, MeeSeva too will cater to the needs of both the successor states.
Bifurcation plans have been prepared for providing the services of MeeSeva across the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The meeseva.gov.in portal will be common to both the states and separate links for Andhra Pradesh (http://ap.meeseva.gov.in) and for Telangana state (http://tg.meeseva.gov.in) are being created, so that the services can be rendered seamlessly from the appointed day.
The maintenance of meeseva.gov.in portal has been entrusted to APOnline till 31st March 2015. After the appointed day, the expenses can be met by the two states in the ratio (AP:Telangana is 58:42).

TG Genco, Transco Created, to be Functional from June 2

HYDERABAD: Transco and Genco are created for the Telangana state on Thursday and they will start functioning from June. Accordingly, the assets, liablities, staff and coal blocks are allocated to TG Transco and TG Genco.
Orders to this effect were issued on Thursday. Effective date for Transfer of functions, assets, liability, posts and staff: is June 2. All the functions presently being carried out by AP TRANSCO in the area of Telangana State shall stand transferred to TG TRANSCO. For Telangana state, separate power purchase committee will also be set up.
Likewise, all the functions presently being carried out by APGENCO in the area of Telangana State shall stand transferred to TG GENCO from June 2.

ALLOTMENT OF COAL BLOCKS: The allotment has been done after taking into account end
use projects.

Name of coal block - Mineable Reserves - End use proejcts - AP - T
Suliyari Belwar - 150 - 1X800 MW Unit at Dr. NTTPS, 1X800 MW unit at KTPS - 75 - 75

Tadicherla-I - 45 - 1X600 MW unit at Kakatiya Thermal Power Project - Nil - 45

SARPALNAUPARA - 280 - 1X800 MW unit at Srikakulam and 1X800 MW unit at Kakatiya Thermal
Power Project, Stage-III - 140 - 140
Of the total 475 million tonnes of 215 tonnes will be reserved for AP and 260 million tonnes will be allotted to Telangana.

Nuagon Telishhi: Mineable Reserves are 450 million tonnes and end use projects are identified as 3x800 MW Units at Srikakulam and 5x800 MW Units at Vodarevu at the time of allocation. The said units are not yet grounded and hence, the mineable reserves may be allocated to both the States as per the ratio 58.32:41.68 to APGENCO & TG GENCO to both the States and necessary request may be made to the Ministry of Coal for change of end use projects by the successor entities, said the orders issued on Thursday by spepcial chief secretary (Energy) SK Joshi
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4 IAS, 13 CCS Officers on Deputation to Stay

HYDERABAD: The state government on Thursday decided to continue the services of four IAS officers and 13 central civil service officers of different services working with the state government on deputation.
The services of these officers are to be placed between the two successor states of AP and T after June 1 till the state governments decide on their further continuance in the respective states. Their services will be continued till June 30.
IAS OFFICERS: E Ramesh Kumar (VC & MD, GCC Ltd, Visakhapatnam AP), Cholleti Prabhakar (Spl Secretary PR&RD Dept, Telangana), A Srinivasa (VC & MD APDDC Ltd, Telangana) and P Ramesh (JMD, APTransco Hyderabad, Telangana).
CCS OFFICERS: SR Venkateswara Reddy (IRS, additional commissioner enforcement, commercial taxes, Telangana), G Srinivasa Rao (IRS accountant, member, APSSTAT Hyderabad, Telangana), P Hari Prasad (IRAS, director (finance), APEPDCL, Visakhapatnam, AP), B Jayaraj, IRTS, VC & MD., APSCCFC Ltd, Hyd, Telangana), M Papi Reddy (IRTS, commissioner of horticulture. AP), C Srinivasa Rao (IRAS, director (finance), APCPDCL, Hyderabad, Telangana), G Ratna Kumar (ITS, VC&MD,
APSIDC, Telangana), Bhadru Maloth (ITS, commissioner, sugarcane, Telangana), G Gouri Sankar (ITS, VC & MD, APCO, AP) and Sumitha Ayodya(IPoS, deputy director-general, MCRHRD, Telangana).
The officers concerned will apply to the state governments giving their preference for acceptance of deputation, failing which they will be repatriated to the parent cadre, chief secretary PK Mohanty said in the orders issued on Thursday.

At Last, Consensus on ‘Nativity’ of Govt Staff

HYDERABAD: Here is good news to Telangana employees. A broad consensus has emerged on allocation of Telangana employees to Telangana and Seemandhra employees to the residuary AP in the provisional as well as final allocation.
The consensus emerged after representations from Telangana employees and recent meetings of senior officials with the chief ministers- designate K Chandrasekhar Rao (Telangana) and N Chandrababu Naidu (AP). Both the leaders have agreed to the proposal to allocate the employees as per their nativity.
In such a case, all the vacant posts in Telangana will be filled with entirely by T-employees. So that all the T-employees will be allocated to their state of choice. The Telangana government has to create supernumerary posts, to which the TRS, the ruling party in Telangana, has agreed.
But, even after all Seemandhra staff are allocated to residuary AP, then there will still be some vacancies in residuary AP. But, the senior officials refused to give the exact number of supernumerary posts to be created in Telangana and the vacancies in AP.
The broad consensus to allocate T-employees to T and Seemandhra employees to AP is to ensure that both the new States should not start with tensions. “The people should feel happy in the new states, there should not be any tensions,” an officer said.
Telangana employees’ unions wanted creation of supernumerary posts before the government issued “order to serve” letters to them for provisional allocation. “As officials, we can not create supernumerary posts right now, as there is no elected government,” an official added.
Officials submitted a report to the Centre on Wednesday that around 9,500 employees were to be allocated provisionally to Telangana, which include 300 to 400 Seemandhra employees. On Thursday, the officials, considering the demands of T-employees positively, decided not to allocate these 400 employees to Telangana in the provisional allocation. So, they made last-minute exercise on Thursday. That is why the department of personnel and training (DoPT) decided to allocate the state-cadre employees on Friday.
The officials stated that one year after the Appointed Day, the central government would hold control over the staff. So, the employees need not worry over the provisional allocation. However, the officials assured that the entire exercise of final allocation would be completed in three months after the appointed day.
But, there is discontent among some Telangana union leaders as very few Telangana employees are working in Seemandhra. The decision to bring the Telangana staff in Seemandhra back to Telangana should be taken after the appointed day in due consultations with the two chief ministers and the Kamalanathan Committee.

'Finishing State Division Work in 3 Months is a Record'

HYDERABAD: Outgoing chief secretary PK Mohanty, who is retiring on June 1, is not interested in taking up a ‘paid post’ in the government but in teaching or working as an adviser to the government. He says he is satisfied that he has completed the state’s bifurcation work in a record span of three months. He admits that 10 to 20 per cent mistakes are possible in the division work but adds that they can be rectified in future. In an interview with
VV Balakrishna, the last chief secretary of the combined state speaks on a host of issues including the state’s bifurcation work.
Excerpts:
How is the bifurcation work progressing?
State’s division took seven years in UP, and one year and three months in MP. We have completed it in AP in just three months. This is because of the good work done by 21 sectoral committees. Despite elections and some unrest we have completed the work in such a short span of time. The reports of around 14 committees have been finalised. Some more will be finalised after the Appointed Day (June 2).
How is the cooperation from officers?
All the civil service officers have worked in a transparent manner. The State Reorganisation Cell too has worked in the best way. I thank all the officers.
How is the cooperation from employees?
All the employees have cooperated till now. And they should extend the same for one more month. There may be 10 to 20 per cent mistakes in the work but these can be rectified in future.
There are apprehensions among some state-cadre employees over allocation.
Some employees may have doubts. But, the allocation is not even provisional basis. We will issue only “order to serve”. The final allocation will take place only after June 2. Employees need not worry.
What steps are you taking to address their fears?
I am holding a meeting with all major unions of employees from AP and T regions at the Secretariat on May 29. I request the employees to take their table, chair and file. This is only an order to serve. Later, the two chief secretaries and the grievance cell will hear their problems, if any.
You are the last chief secretary of the United AP. How is your experience?
The bifurcation work is a Herculean task. But, we have completed it, which normally takes at least a year, in three months. I thank God for it. I underwent a lot of stress. Immediately after retirement, I will go to the Jagannath temple at Puri to thank God for the successful completion of the division work.
What are your plans for post-retirement life?
I will not take any paid post. I am interested in teaching or will continue as an adviser to government without taking money. I will try to establish a national institution of urban management (NIMU) in Hyderabad. I have authored some books on urban planning.

About 400 Seemandhra Staff to Serve Telangana State

HYDERABAD: Around 9,500 state-cadre employees will be allocated to Telangana government on provisional basis to work for the T-state form June 2. Among them, there are around 300 to 400 Seemandhra employees.
According to sources, the State government officials submitted a report to this effect to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in Delhi on Wednesday. The related file may go to the Prime Minister on Thursday and the allocation of state-cadre employees will be done on Friday.
According to sources, the State government identified around 65,000 state-cadre employees to be allocated between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states.
They include around 28,000 field level officers. There are some vacant posts too. After deleting the field-level posts and vacant posts, the actual number of personnel is arrived at.
After all these calculations, the State government officials informed the Centre that around 9,500 state-cadre employees will be allocated to Telangana on provisional basis. Of the 9,500 employees, around 300 to 400 belong to Seemandhra. But, the total number of Telangana employees to be allocated will be known only after Friday.
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary PK Mohanty will conduct a meeting with the Telangana and the Seemandhra employees’ unions at the Secretariat on Thursday to clear their doubts on the allocation of state-cadre employees.

Different colours for EALs on liquor bottles for AP and T

Express News Service
Hyderabad, May 27:

The Excise Adhesive Labels (EALS) in Telangana state will be in pink colour. The present labels with same colours will continue for the residuary AP state. But, the colours of labels on liquor bottles will be changed for Telangana state.
Light Pink for manufacture within the T-State, light orange for the exports labels, light red for the imports labels and light black for CSD labels. For Telangana EALs for local consumption instead of “light green colour’ “pink colour” will be used used. Regarding Central State logo, Telangana State Logo will replace the existing one in due course of time after it is created.
For the State of Telangana, wherever “Government of Andhra Pradesh Prohibition & Excise” is printed, it shall be replaced by “Government of Telangana Prohibition & Excise”.
The colours to be continued for residual AP: Light green for manufacture within the State, light yellow for the exports labels, light yellow for the imports labels and light brown for CSD labels.

BEVERAGES CORP: A new Corporation under the name "Telangana Beverages Corporation Limited" under the Companies Act 1956 was created. The resolution of the APBCL Board of Directors meeting held on May 12 was approved by the government. The area of operations,
assets and liabilities, share capital, sanctioned posts and the staff working between both the corporations i.e., Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation Limited and Telangana Beverages Corporation Limited were also approved by the government.
CYCLONE WING TO BE SHIFTED TO AP: State Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) which is
functioning to implement the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) funded by the World Bank for an amount of Rs 771.50 crore will be shifted to residuary AP.
This project is a Centrally Sponsored Project with 75 per cent contribution
by the Central government, as Grant-in-Aid and matching 25 per cent contribution by the State government. The task of the SPIU is to reduce the vulnerability of coastal states, through creation of appropriate infrastructure which can help mitigate the adverse impacts of cyclones.
The project is working in nine coastal districts - Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore.
In view of the bifurcation of AP, the proposals for restructuring of Revenue (DM) department was furnished to the government. The unit will be allocated to residuary AP, since the NCRMP works are situated in 9 coastal districts of AP. Around 50 sanctioned posts in the unit will also go to residuary AP.

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Allocation of AIS Officers to Two States May be Delayed

HYDERABAD: As expected, the allocation of All India Service (AIS) officers between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will be delayed, due to change of government at the Centre. However, the requisite number of AIS officers will be allocated between AP and Telangana on an ad hoc basis. The final allocation will take place only 15 to 30 days from the Appointed Day of June 2.
The file pertaining to the allocation of AIS officers was not placed before the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. While Narendra Modi took charge as the new PM on Monday, the signing of the file pertaining to the final allocations by Modi will take time due to the cumbersome procedure involved.
“The Pratyusha Sinha committee-prepared draft list has to be first okayed by the Prime Minister. Once he approves it, the list will be placed on the website. Then, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) will invite suggestions / or objections from AIS officers. After incorporating the same, the DoPT will prepare the final list of AIS officers to be allocated to AP and Telangana. The list will again go to the Prime Minister for his approval. The entire process will take at least one month,’’ top sources in the Secretariat told Express.
So, the DoPT will allocate 42 of the 600 AIS officers on an ad hoc basis. These will be officers holding key posts such as chief secretaries, DGPs, Intelligence Heads, Law and Order Heads, Principal Conservators of Forest (PCCFs), etc.
“The idea is to see that the ‘peshis’ of AP and Telangana chief ministers should function from June 2,” the sources said and added that all the officers allocated on an ad hoc basis would be deemed to be under AP cadre till the final allocation took place in 15 days to one month time.
Till then, the Principal Secretary of each department would serve the respective department in both the states. Only 42 officers will be given ‘orders to serve’, they added.

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