Hyderabad: Telangana state employees are gearing up for another agitation against 18(f) clause, issued by the Kamalnathan committee to distribute state-cadre staff between AP and Telangana states.
Under this clause, the committee has the power to allocate employees directly to any state irrespective of their nativity, if there is shortage of staff for any posts at any level. TS employees fear that it would result in hundreds of Seemandhra employees occupying posts in TS, thus denying promotions to existing Telangana staff besides denying opportunity to secure government jobs for fresh TS graduates and unemployed at entry-level. They argue that if promotions are not given to the existing Telangana staff to accommodate Seemandhra employees, there will be no scope for fresh vacancies at the entry-level.
“The clause 18 (f), issued by the Kamalnathan committee, will be detrimental to the interests of the TS employees. All the vacant posts at higher-level in TS will be occupied by Seemandhra employees as there are no sufficient higher-level employees from the TS. With this, existing TS employees will not get promotions to move to higher-level. They continue to remain at lower-level, thereby no fresh vacancies will arise at the lower-level. This will deny opportunity for fresh Telangana graduates to secure government jobs. We demand Kamalnathan committee to withdraw 18(f) clause immediately. If not, we are ready to go on another agitation like we fought for achieving T-state,” said G. Deviprasad, president, TNGOs Association.
Representatives of various TS employees associations met the committee here on Monday and lodged a strong objection against the 18(f) clause.
Mr Deviprasad said the committee has been looking only at service records of employees to determine their nativity and alleged that several Seemandhra employees manipulated service records to continue in Hyderabad and other TS districts. He demanded a thorough inquiry into service records of Seemandhra employees by an independent agency.
T-employees leader and TRS MLA V. Srinivas Goud alleged that the Kamalnathan committee became a pawn in the hands of Centre and Seemandhra political leaders and showing discrimination against T-employees.
He said the committee was not ‘transparent’ and working only for the benefit of Seemandhra employees.
Despite several Seemandhra employees securing posts in TS even at district, zonal and multi-zonal levels against the norms, the committee ignored to distribute the staff based on nativity at these levels and confined itself only to 50,000 state-level posts, while leaving over 1.90 lakh posts untouched at these levels.
