Hyderabad: Reorganisation of districts has helped junior bureaucrats and Group-1 officials get posts which took longer to reach in undivided AP.
It used to take nine years for IAS officers and six for IPS to become collectors and superintendent of police in the districts. Following the reorganisation of districts, many junior IAS officials, some from them from the 2012 batch, have been posted as collectors.
The senior-most appointee was Adilabad collector Jyothi Buddha Prakash from 2002 batch, and there were six others from the 2011 and 2010 batches.
The junior-most were from 2012 batch: A. Varshini (Peddapalli), D. Krishna Bhaskar (Sircilla), R. Hanumanthu (Bhadradri) and R.V. Karnan (Manchiryal).
A senior official stated that it took 10 years for him to become collector in the past. In a way, these junior officials are privileged, he said.
Asked whether lack of experience in administrative matters would become a factor, IAS Officers Association president K. Pradeep Chandra said the junior officers would live up to expectations.
“Because of fewer districts in states like erstwhile AP and West Bengal, it used to take a considerable time for IAS officials to get posted as collector. The number of districts has increased after reorganisation, and the need arose to appoint more IAS officials as collectors,” Mr Pradeep Chandra said.
