The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Hyderabad bench on Friday dismissed the plea of senior IAS officer A. Vani Prasad to direct the Centre to allot her to the Telangana cadre.
Hyderabad:The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Hyderabad bench on Friday dismissed the plea of senior IAS officer A. Vani Prasad to direct the Centre to allot her to the Telangana cadre. The CAT was not inclined to set aside the order dated October 9, 2024, issued by the Union department of personnel and training directing her to report to the Andhra Pradesh cadre.
The bench of judicial member Dr Lata Baswaraj Patne and the administration member Varun Sindhu Kul Kaumudi also rejected her request to accept her domicile as Telangana.
According to Vani Prasad, she had been living in Hyderabad since her childhood and completed her studies in the city. She said she had furnished her permanent address as Hyderabad in the application for All India Service Examination, 1990, when she was selected for the Indian Revenue Service.
In all her applications, she gave the permanent as well as postal address as Hyderabad, Vani Prasad said. She is married to a Group ‘A’ officer recruited through UPSC and working in Central Engineering Services (Roads), under the Union ministry of road transport and highways and was working in Hyderabad. Her 16-year-old twin children were born and studying in Hyderabad.
She said the Centre had allotted her to Andhra Pradesh as excess cadre in Telangana and as her father’s native place was mentioned as Guntur.
The bench said that any interference in the allocation would result in unnecessary expansion of the scope of judicial review and result in discrimination against those who had accepted the allocation of cadre in public interest. The definition of hardship would have to be considered in the larger public interest and not with any individual’s concern in the matter of policy for allocation of cadre on bifurcation of a state, the tribunal said.
