At Last, Consensus on ‘Nativity’ of Govt Staff

By Express News Service

Published: 30th May 2014 08:50 AM

Last Updated: 30th May 2014 08:50 AM

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.