Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Tuesday lifted, with immediate effect, the ban on promotions of government employees in various categories. The ban was imposed in May 2014 on promotions, appointments, transfers, revision of seniority, and in a change in terms and conditions of employment in the state at all levels, till the process of allocation of employees to the successor states of Telangana and AP was completed.
On the instructions of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma on Tuesday issued orders lifting the ban. The orders state that in most of the departments, the process of tentative allocation of employees between the successor states has been completed by the Advisory Committee headed by Kamalanathan and the employees, against whom no objections are raised on their tentative allocation, have been relieved by the respective states and they have reported to the states to which they have been allocated.
The ban shall stand lifted in respect of the local, district, zonal and multi-zonal cadre posts which fall entirely in Telangana state. The government also issued orders stating that the ban was lifted in respect of posts having state cadre and the posts in Secretariat, heads of departments, state-level offices etc., for which the process of final allocation between the successor states is completed by the Central government. However, these orders these orders shall not apply to the employees whose tentative allocation is under objection, until final allocation orders are issued by the Government of India.
