Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Hyderabad: With the appointed day fast approaching, the process of distributing employees between the new state of Telangana and residual Seemandhra is causing fireworks in the state secretariat. The rival groups of employees in the secretariat were at loggerheads even before the issue of the statewide distribution of staff had started.
While the administration has issued a list of 1,806 employees in the state secretariat with details of their nativity status, giving a day’s time for filing of any objections, employees on both the sides have expressed their dissatisfaction with it.
The list issued by the General Administration Departments (GAD) includes 1,059 employees of Seemandhra origin and 806 of Telangana origin.
The Telangana Secretariat Employees Union has already found fault with the list.
The Union leaders, led by president Narendar Rao, met the Special Chief Secretary and presented him a list of 193 employees they described as “non-locals”.
They submitted documents to back their claims that these employees were wrongly included on the Telangana list as they originally belong to Seemandhra. The Union has warned of a fresh agitation if the Seemandhra employees were not sent back to their native state. The union filed its objections after the GAD had given time until noon on Wednesday to the employees to give any objections regarding their own status or the status of any other employee.
The union said it was not clear on what basis the nativity of the employees was decided or how the list was prepared.
Tension was rising in the sprawling state secretariat complex, where buildings have been divided between the two states.
The state governments of Telangana and Seemandhra will operate from different blocks of the secretariat after June 2.
Murli Krishna, convener of Seemandhra Secretariat Employees Forum, took objection to a statement by some Telangana employee union leaders that they would not allow Seemandhra employees to work.
He said he hoped that Telangana chief minister-designate will resolve the disputes amicably.
“If there is any doubt about the nativity of any employee they should come out with the concrete proof,” Murli Krishna said.
A similar complaint was also lodged with the state governor ESL Narasimhan by the Telangana government doctors association. The association leaders alleged that attempts were being made to claim local status for some non-local employees on the basis of forged documents.
The issue has come to the fore with the TRS President and Telangana chief minister-designate K. Chandrasekhar Rao scheduled to meet the leaders of various unions and associations of Telangana government employees on Thursday.
KCR was to address their meeting at a convention centre on the outskirts of Hyderabad to thank the employees for their active role in achieving Telangana state.
The issue of the distribution of employees between the two states was likely to figure prominently in the meeting.
While Telangana employees and other organisations were demanding that all non-local employees should be repatriated to their native places and only Telangana employees should remain working in the Telangana state, Seemandhra employees and their leaders were demanding an option to move to Seemandhra or stay in Telangana.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti party was against giving any such options to the employees. KCR was confident that no such option will be given and local status will be the basis of allocation of employees to the respective states.
However, details of the distribution of state employees are likely to be finalised only after approval from the new central government headed by Narendra Modi.
The C.R. Kamlanathan Committee has submitted its guidelines for the distribution of government employees to the Prime Minister’s Office and they were likely to be implemented after the Prime Minister gives his nod, sources said.
Meanwhile, a Telangana Advocates Joint Action Committee delegation met the Supreme Court Chief Justice and demanded the setting up of a separate High Court for Andhra Pradesh in view of the division of the state.
By Mohammad Siddique?Correspondent
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