Hyderabad: Ahead of the Prathyush Sinha Committee meeting on Saturday to discuss the distribution of All India Service (AIS) officers for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, both state governments have arrived at a consensus on the issue.
The chief secretaries of TS and AP have been asked to attend the meeting to discuss the objections filed by some AIS officers over the revised provisional allotment list that was issued on October 10.
Both governments are concerned that the allotment process will get further delayed if the Committee takes these objections into consideration at this stage and hold meetings to resolve them.
The governments have instead unanimously decided to approach the DoPT directly and seek allotment of officers to both states in the cases where there are no objections.
The governments have decided to seek allotment of 90 per cent of officers who have not objected and request the Centre and DoPT not to hold back the entire allotment process for the sake of just 10 per cent officers who have filed objections over the provisional allotment.
In fact, both the governments had written a joint letter to the DoPT to this effect last week but have not received a reply so far. In the meantime, the governments received communication from the Prathyush Sinha Committee to attend the meeting on October 25 to discuss the objections filed by some AIS officers, raising concerns over further delay in completion of the allotment process.
Both the governments are already facing severe problems in running the administrations due to lack of sufficient IAS officers. The Telangana government is the most affected as only 70 IAS officers are working against a cadre strength of 163 officers.
The government has even failed to conduct the Budget Session of Legislature so far citing delay in preparation of Budget proposals due to shortage of officers.
Both the governments are worried that if the Prathyush Sinha Committee initiates meetings again to discuss the objections at this stage and make changes accordingly, the process will get further delayed as it will have to be sent to the prime minister for approval before DoPT comes out with the final allotment list.
To avoid this, the governments want the DoPT to directly come out with the permanent allotment list comprising 90 per cent of AIS officers and dispose the remaining 10 per cent in a case-by-case basis by holding discussions with the concerned officers.
