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Scramble for babus
Scramble for babus, With the Pratyush Sinha committee allocating 163 IAS officers, 112 IPS and 65 Indian Forest Service officers to Telangana and 211 IAS, 144 IPS and 82 Indian Forest Service officers to Andhra Pradesh, the race for retaining AIS officers of their choice is on by both the governments
- Naidu urges PM to allot senior officials to AP
- PM directs DoPT to go by the accepted formula
- Centre may follow the UC Agarwal panel norms
Hyderabad: With the Pratyush Sinha committee allocating 163 IAS officers, 112 IPS and 65 Indian Forest Service officers to Telangana and 211 IAS, 144 IPS and 82 Indian Forest Service officers to Andhra Pradesh, the race for retaining AIS officers of their choice is on by both the governments.
AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is learnt to have told the Prime Minister that Andhra Pradesh needs the services of all senior IAS officers as the State was to be “constructed from the scratch”. A similar demand is said to have been made by the T CM K Chandrasekhar Rao as well.
“One of the methods to decide as to who should go where is to prepare a roaster to identify the officers who would be sent to Telangana and AP. But this proposal was not acceptable to the officers. No officer should be sent against his will. If Telangana does not have adequate officers, Centre should send outsiders to Telangana,” a senior IAS officer said.
However, to avoid any controversy, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is understood to have directed the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to go by the accepted formula to divide the AIS officers between the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
According to a senior officer, the Centre might follow the UC Agarwal committee report which had formulated the procedure to allot AIS officers during the bifurcation of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh States in 2000.
Sources say that Pratyush Sinha committee is also examining the possibility of giving option to choose the State of their choice for the officer who has less than five-year service.
