AP,TS staff allocation to be delayed

Hyderabad, Aug 29: The chief secretaries of both Telugu states, S.P Singh from Telangana and AP counterpart Dinesh Kumar attended a high-level meeting chaired by Department of Personnel and Training Secretary Ajay Mittal held here on Monday discussed the allocation of the staff between the two States.

The process for completion of allocation of employees between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh is likely to take some more time thanks to the cases relating to seniority pending adjudication in the courts.

The panel headed by C.R. Kamalanathan has successfully completed the allocation of 55,870 employees among the two States 31,611 to Andhra Pradesh and another 24,259 to Telangana. But there are still 1,302 posts that need to be bifurcated between the two States.

Of these, 536 posts are of the rank of deputy collectors and special grade deputy collectors, 683 posts of DSPs, additional SPs and non-cadre SPs, 62 excise superintendents and few posts relating to medical education, directorate of health, labour and special protection force.

A majority of these cases, according to sources, pertained to the Home and Revenue departments.

Andhra Pradesh Government is learned to have expressed its readiness to resolve the litigations filed from its side by September-end and it also informed the other participants about the guidelines approved by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu regarding the agreement reached on the transfer of an equal number of employees in different cadres between the two States.

Officials, however, feel that given the complications involved in the agreement on the exchange an equal number of staff, the process was likely to continue until the year end. The meeting had in principle agreed on the allocation of nine employees, four to Telangana and five to Andhra Pradesh.