Centre steps up effort to resolve staff distribution in Telangana and AP
Many Seemandhra employees have been allotted to Telangana
Hyderabad: The Centre has stepped up efforts to resolve the contentious distribution of employees between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments.
The Kamalanathan Committee, constituted by the Centre for the purpose held a meeting on Thursday, with chief secretaries and senior officials of both the states at the Secretariat to frame guidelines for permanent allocation of employees.
However, determining ‘nativity’ of employees remained the contentious issues between both the states and no decision has been taken on this. The committee has decided to meet again on June 27 to break the deadlock.
Telangana Chief Secretary Dr Rajiv Sharma and AP Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao besides top officials from both the governments were present in the meeting.
However, there was a consensus on allotting employees to their native state.
The Centre had earlier made ‘provisional allotment’ of employees to both the states to enable respective governments to run administration following bifurcation of state on June 2. However, this led to huge resentment among employees as many of them from Telangana region were allotted to the AP government, and are refusing to work and holding demonstrations on a daily-basis demanding to re-allot them to their native state.
Similarly, many Seemandhra employees have been allotted to Telangana government, which is being strongly opposed by Telangana employees associations. This has been affecting the administration in offices.
Later, Telangana gazetted officers leader and TRS MLA Srinivas Goud met Mr Kamalanathan and urged him to complete the distribution of employees at the earliest to quell unrest among the Telangana employees.
“Please try to convince Seemandhra employees to leave for their native places and work for their government. If that happens, all the problems will get resolved automatically. The problem is getting complicated as Seemandhra employees are refusing to leave Hyderabad,” Mr Goud said.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has recently urged Centre to allot employees based on their nativity following which the Centre has rushed the committee to resolve the issue.