Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Tuesday issued guidelines for considering interstate transfers of local cadre (district/ zone/ multizonal) and state cadre employees on spouse grounds or criteria and on mutual basis. According to the guidelines, interstate transfers in respect of teachers are permissible only between the same management and same category and subject in case of mutual transfers. The guidelines were decided at a meeting the chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on May 11, 2018.
It was also decided to constitute a committee with principal secretaries to examine the matter and arrive at a consensus. The committee may also give recommendations, if any, for fine tuning of mutually agreed inter-State transfers policy and inter-State deputation policy. As per Section 77 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, the employees of local, district, zonal and multi zonal cadre who fall entirely in one of the successor states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were deemed to be allotted to that state.
Though recommendations allow the interstate transfers, the employees from AP, who wanted a transfer to Telangana on the spouse criteria, were disappointed last year due to conditions set by the Telangana government. Only one spouse was allowed to be transferred to the other state where the spouse is working on regular basis in the state government subject to condition that one of the spouses must be local to the state to which transfer is sought.
