Hyderabad: The bifurcation of employees between TS and AP is stuck in legal dispute.Of the 58,000 state cadre staff, the Centre-appointed Kamalnathan Committee could bifurcate only 16,350 employees so far. Of these, 65 employees have approached the High Court and the Administrative Tribunal against their allotment to a particular state defying merit and seniority due to which the process ground to a halt in some departments.
The committee’s tenure will expire by March-end and there is no clarity whether the Centre would extend the deadline or take up the process on its own under the supervision of the Department of Personnel and Training.
The Centre had already extended the deadline of the committee thrice after it failed to complete the bifurcation process. The bifurcation of staff in medical and health department and special protection force has turned controversial.
The TS government is opposing bifurcation of SPF staff posted at Secretariat, Legislative Assembly and High Court. Similary, the TS native medical and health staff are opposing allotment of AP native employees to TS.
The Kamalnathan committee has brought these issues to the notice of the Centre and sought guidance over how to go forward on this. The legal cases have halted bifurcation of nearly 500 deputy collectors and 1,500 section and assistant section officers in various departments.
AP State Reorganisation Committee secretary L. Premchandra Reddy and TS Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma have written to the advocate-generals of respective states to initiate measures for the early disposal of these legal cases.
“We have convened a high-level meeting with the Chief Secretaries of both the states and DoPT officials on March 9 to resolve contentious issues. ,” said Mr Reddy.Though it’s nearly two years since the committee was formed, it could make final allocation of 16,334 employees and temporary allocation of 42,000 employees, of the 58,000 state-cadre staff. It is yet to touch the bifurcation of 16,000 staff mostly in police and medical and health departments.
