TS employees peeved over Kamalanathan guidelines

Employees organisations up in arms against the committee for ignoring their demands

Suggest a column should be incorporated in option form to indicate the nativity of employee’s father

School records would not be enough to determine one’s nativity

Hyderabad: Telangana State employee organisations on Friday expressed their displeasure at Kamalanathan panel’s guidelines and felt that the dice was loaded against them.

Telangana State Commercial Taxes JAC chairman T Vivek expressed the opinion that C R Kamalanathan had failed to achieve any breakthrough in resolving contentious issue of nativity. The Committee had just elucidated provisions which included in the AP Reorganisation Act, he said.

According to Vivek, demands of Telangana State employees that options should not be given, nativity should be decided by taking place of birth into consideration, allotment basing on cadre strength and not on the existing strength were ignored by he panel.

“The present recommendations would let all non-Telangana officers in senior positions in HoDs to stay back in Telangana, if they opted for this State,” he lamented.

On the other hand, Telangana Secretariat Employees Association and TGOs Secretariat wing were highly critical of the Kamalanathan panel for ignoring their pleas to ensure smooth division of employees between two states. Talking to reporters here, Narender Rao, Raj Kumar and Padma Chary of the said Associations felt there was no proper mechanism to decide nativity. They suggested setting up of a sub-committee headed by a senior IAS officer to resolve the nativity issue. Nativity should be judged basing on the place of birth of the employee and not on his school studies. School studies would not indicate his or her nativity. Telangana State employee leaders demanded that details of nativity of father should also be included in option form to be submitted by the employees.