Seemandhra employees alleged of troubling them
The four-storied office building has been distributed to Telangana and AP. While the first two floors were allotted to Telangana, the top two floors have been allotted to AP. AP employees have to necessarily use the lift since their offices are
Hyderabad: The fight between Telangana and Seemandhra employees in government offices located in the common capital area Hyderabad is taking an ugly turn. The issue of disconnecting power supply to the lift in the office of fisheries department in Masab Tank on Saturday led to a tussle between Telangana and Seemandhra employees.
The four-storied office building has been distributed to Telangana and AP. While the first two floors were allotted to Telangana, the top two floors have been allotted to AP.
AP employees have to necessarily use the lift since their offices are located on upper floors. However, some employees disconnected the power supply to lift by cutting the electrical wires on Monday.
Seemandhra employees alleged that it was the handiwork of Telangana employees to trouble them, though Telangana employees refuted these allegations.
“Telangana employees have been troubling us ever since AP was bifurcated in June. They stopped payment of power bill and maintenance bill for the lift due to which the contractor maintaining the lift left the job. Despite this, we mobilised money among themselves and convinced the contractor to take up the job again. Unable to bear this, Telangana employees have disconnected power supply to the lift by cutting the electrical wires,” said B. Subhadra, an employee.
Seemandhra employees alleged that Telangana employees are deliberately trying to make the lift dysfunctional only to trouble them since there was no need for them to use the lift with their offices located on the first and second floors.
“We don’t use the lift. Why should Telangana pay the power and maintenance bill for the lift used by Seemandhra employees? If they want the lift, they should ask AP government to pay the bills. We have no objection,” said V. Srinivas Goud, Telangana employees’ leader.
Though it is nearly four months since the bifurcation, nothing seems to be settling down at ground level and the situation has only been worsening day by day. Employees from
both the states are resorting to locking up of offices which happened at the Tourism Office in Hyderabad for three days this week, disconnecting power connections and, lifts
etc to trouble employees from other states.
Employees are resorting to attacks on each other. Many employees, especially lower-rung staff like contract employees and class-IV employees are denied salaries for
the last two to three months just because they are not natives of both the states.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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