Hyderabad: The much-awaited transfers of IAS and IPS officers is likely to come any time after the Telangana Legislative Assembly session concludes on September 22. With regard to the IPS fraternity, a major shake-up is likely on the cards.
It has been close to four months that 27 IAS and 23 IPS officers were promoted to senior ranks but they are continuing in the same posts they held before.
Government sources told this newspaper that over the last 20 days, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has had meetings over the transfers and postings of bureaucrats with Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi and Director-General of Police M. Mahendar Reddy, besides other key officials in the CM’s office.
Though it was expected that the transfers and postings would be notified soon after the inauguration of the Kaleshwaram scheme, it did not happen. Though top bureaucrats subtly reminded the CM about the long-pending transfers, he is understood to have told them that it would be done soon.
“The proposals for the transfers have been finalised and it will be approved shortly,” sources said.
It was on April 22 that the 27 IAS and 23 IPS officers were promoted to senior ranks. Among the IAS officers, two officers of the 1988 batch were promoted to the position of Special Chief Secretary, while the 2003 batch IAS officers were promoted to the ‘super time scale category’. The government also promoted 2010 and 2015 batch IAS officers.
With regard to the IPS officers, the 1994 batch was promoted as Additional DGPs, the 2001 batch officers to the rank of IGs, and the 2004 and 2005 batches as DIGs. Seven IPS officers of the 2006 batch were also promoted to the senior scale.
Some of the officers said that they had been waiting for their new postings for the last four months. Once any officer is promoted, they look forward to their new postings and are in the exit mode, they added.
However, this is perhaps the first time that there was such a long delay, they rued, adding that most of the officers who got their promotions had already completed two years or even more in the same post.
