The fate of hundreds of employees from the two Telugu States, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, who opted for inter-State transfers on a permanent basis hangs in balance.
More than six months after the employees exercised their option of working in either Telangana or Andhra Pradesh, orders on the inter-State transfers are yet to be issued.
Following requests from the employees’ native of Andhra Pradesh, who were allotted/deemed to be allotted to Telangana, the Telangana Government issued a circular memo in September last year permitting issuance of no objection certificates to employees or officers who wanted to shift to AP on a permanent basis.
‘No clear guidelines’
The AP Government too, reciprocated in October last asking employees of Telangana origin to submit their options in a prescribed proforma showing their willingness to go to Telangana on a permanent basis. The process is yet to move ahead as the Telangana employees working in AP alleged that there was absence of clear guidelines in taking up the process.
This was mainly because the Telangana government had not constituted a nodal agency for receiving the options from employees of AP origin working here whereas the AP Government had made the State Reorganisation Affairs wing of the General Administration department as the nodal agency for collecting the information.
As a result, the departments that are receiving information from employees are directly sending information to the departments concerned in the neighbouring State where it is being put together. “Collection of information is underway and orders on inter-State transfers will be issued once it is completed,” a senior official told The Hindu.
According to him, there is no dialogue between the two governments on this aspect as yet. “The two governments need to talk and sort out the issue for speedy transfer of willing employees,” he said.
Close to 700 employees belonging to zonal, multi-zonal, district and State cadres applied for transfer on a permanent basis to Telangana, but were not repatriated so far. Around 1,600 AP native employees working in different cadres in Telangana applied for inter-State transfer to AP and were issued no objection certificates by the secretaries concerned.
This was in addition to 1,900 AP employees working in Andhra and who applied for transfer to Telangana, a majority of them citing serious health issues. Employees alleged that though the NoCs were being issued to AP origin employees, there was no clear mention of process for the intake of employees working in AP.
They urged the government to take all the employees native to Telangana through complete absorption by giving them the last rank in their respective cadre while those of AP nativity who applied for transfers on health grounds could be accommodated in the form of supernumerary posts that would cease to exist once the employee concerned attains superannuation.
