Panel submits report on AP, Telangana staff division

Report suggests 3 months' time for completion of process

The Kamalnathan Committee on division of employees between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh has finally come up with guidelines after two months of deliberations with employees unions.

On Friday, the Committee submitted its 20-page report to the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi in the presence of Chief Secretaries of the two states. The report suggested a three-month gestation period for the completion of the process of division of employees between the states.

The report has set birthplace of employees according to the 371 D of the Constitution as per the Presidential Order and the Zonal system in 1976. The Committee has not given any option to the employees who are due to retire in a year or two.

But it has given option to the single women, couple employees, physically handicapped, widowed, separated and divorced women employees, SC and ST employees, those facing serious and chronic illness such as cancer and those who underwent operations such as open heart, bypass, kidney and others. The Telangana Non Gazetted Officers’ (TNGOs) Union welcomed the recommendation of Kamalnathan committee which said that Class IV employees and drivers could opt to stay wherever they are.

“It shall be open for the Central government to allot any person to any successive state in the administrative interest or in the requirement of administration,” the report stated.

Employees who are not local in both the states will be allotted on the basis of their local status by the head of the Departments.

“The teachers and doctors in government service will be allotted on the basis of their specialisation and cadre posts available in the two states,” it said.

The Committee indicated that the state government employees of both the regions, after exhausting the options, shall have to be bound by final authority of the Central government in respect of cadre, posts and location allotments.

The report is available on website www.apreorganisation.co.in for 10 days. The committee is inviting clarifications and objections from the employees of the two states.