No Info on Employee Birth Place

By VV Balakrishna - HYDERABAD

Published: 14th May 2014 12:37 PM

Last Updated: 14th May 2014 12:37 PM

How to ascertain the nativity of State cadre employees while allocating them to successor states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana?
This is a worry before officials as well as CR Kamalnathan Committee, which has to allocate state-cadre employees between AP and Telangana. The information pertaining to the birth place of employees was not recorded, in most cases, in the Service Record (SR) sheets.
If Kamalanathan Committee wanted to allocate the employees based on their nativity, there is no information of the birth places of the employees. Telangana employees, while participating in the T-movement, raised this point several times. Their worst fears have now come true.
It may be recalled that Girglani Commission also suggested to the State government in the past to record the birth place in SR sheets. But, it was done so far.
Now, when the State is being divided, the crucial information was missing. It remains to be seen how the officials will overcome this problem.
Sources added that Kamalanathan Committee will release its guidelines for the allocation of state-cadre employees on or after May 18. The counting of votes polled in general elections will take place on May 16 and re-counting, if necessary, will be done on May 17. The guidelines for staff allocation will be issued on May 18.
Kamalanathan committee may consider four options before finalising the guidelines. Allocating staff on 58:42 ratio, 13:10 ratio, on territorial basis, or on the basis of work burden.
Seniority, domicile, women, retirement time, diseases and spouse cases will be considered while giving options to staff.
ONLY PROVISIONAL ALLOCATION NOW
The staff will be provisionally allocated to two states before May end. The actual work of Kamalanathan will commence only on June 2. Kamalanathan Committee is determined to complete the allocation process within one year from June 2. It took more than 10 years for the same job during the division of the Uttar Pradesh and one-and-a-half years during the division of Madhya Pradesh. Kamalanathan committee will seek options from employees after June 2 and give them two months time. The committee will take one month time for scrutiny of the options. Later, two months time will be given for receiving objections or suggestions.