Telangana State unions pressurise to cap on government staff of Andhra origin

Hyderabad: While the Centre-appointed Kamalnathan Committee is in the process of finalising the distribution of state government employees between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana employees are bringing pressure on the state government not to allow more than 40,000 “AP-origin employees” to work in Telangana.

These associations have submitted a list of about 40,370 employees to the Telangana State government claiming them to be of “AP-origin” and to ensure that they are relieved from Telangana government duties by January 1, 2015.

Employees have demanded Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao take up this issue with his Andhra Pradesh counterpart.

• Telangana State employees ask government to transfer “AP-origin employees”
• Employees want AP staff to work only till December 2014
• Creation of ‘super-numery posts’ for fresh recruitment
• Out of 65,000state cadre staff, nearly 40,000 belong to the Seemandhra region