Two States Rejig to be Ready By May 25

Express News Service
Hyderabad, May 2:
   All arrangements will be in place for running the administration in both in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at the most by May 25. One week from May 25 to May 31 will be considered as a transition period. June 1 is a holiday on account of Sunday and from June 2 onwards, the staff of Telangana and Andhra will function separately from the same Secretariat.
   The vehicles required to come to offices and the furniture to sit will be allocated. The files will be ready for the Staff. From June 2 onwards, ten districts of T and 13 districts of AP will function separately. As the Appointed Day is just 28 days more, the division work is going on a brisk pace.
   The President's rule in the State will come to an end by June 2. The new Chief Ministers of both Telangana and AP may assume offices after any day from June 2. This was because, the Chief Ministers may consider the auspicious days.
  However, after May 16 and before June 2, the officials of the State government will be in touch with Chief Minister-designate of both the States on allocation of staff and other aspects of the bifurcation work. They will heed their advices. The officials are expecting that the new Prime Minister will assume office by May 17 or 18 and will give necessary orders for the division.
 Official sources in Secretariat explained Express on how the Division work is going on:
  
STAFF TO BE ALLOCATED ON MAY 25: Around 56,000 state-cadre employees will be allocated between the two successor states by May 25. One week from May 25 to 31 will be considered as a transition period for transfer of files and staff to occupy their seats. Provisional allocation of posts to all secretariat departments from Additional Secretary to last grade employees will be made by May 25.
FILES ARE READY: Of the 36.80 lakh files from April 2008, 10.5 lakh files are common for both the states. The remaining 13.5 lakh files belongs to T and 12.8 lakh files belongs to AP. Of the common files of 10.5 lakh files, 2.5 lakh are current files and 8 lakh files are old files. These will be scanned and they come around 5 crore pages. Now, 626 scanners are functioning daily in various departments and they are scanning around 25 to 30 lakh pages a day. The filing copying will be completed by May 20.

VEHICLES:  There are 23,000 vehicles in Hyderabad which will be allocated to both Telangana and AP. Log books and service records are readied for the vehicles.
Assets: Of the 55,000 premises of fixes assets in the combined state are allocated. In secretariat, the T government will get A, B, C and D blocks. The AP government will get the remaining five blocks. New gate for T -CM is under construction.

PENSIONERS: The pensioners will get thier pensions as usual. Even if an employee, a native of Seemandhra retired in Telangana, he will get his pension in T-only. If a T employee retired in AP, he will get his pension in AP. Now, there are 3.4 lakh pensioners in 13 districts of Seemandhra. There are 2.39 lakh pensioners in ten districts of Telangana, which included 92,000 pensioners in Hyderabad. T-government has to pay Rs 506 crore per month and the AP government has to pay Rs 706 crore per month. The number of pensioners are now in the ratio of 41.25 per cent in T and 58.75 per cent in Seemandhra. There are less pensioners in T as against the population ratio of 42:58. So, the officers decided to pay pensions in future where they are getting now.

MASTER GO ISSUED: Chief Secretary PK Mohanty issued a "master GO" directing various departments to issue separate GOs for the division of the State as per the AP Reorganisation Act. He issued Standard Operating Procedure in the GO. For example,  The R and B department will issue GO allocating office, Legislature and residential buildings between the States of Telangana and AP by May 5.
  Tthe Energy department has to issue a GO by May 10 transferring  51 per cent equity of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL) to government of Telangana. Another GO issuing a notification of reassigning Ananthapur and Kurnool districts from CPDCL to SPDCL has to be issued by May 10. The Chief Secretary directed the departments to issue GOs or notifications with regard to 40 such tasks. All will be completed by the end of May.


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