Telangana employees get ready for another stir

Hyderabad: According to the most reliable sources, the Telangana state employees are getting prepared for another agitation against 18(f) clause in the draft guidelines issued by the Kamalanathan committee exclusively appointed for the distribution of state-cadre staff between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states.

The committee has the power to allocate employees directly to any state irrespective of their nativity, if there is a shortage of staff for any posts at any level under this clause. The state government employees of Telangana, who are the original natives of the region fear that the clause 18 (f) would result in many Andhra Pradesh employees occupying posts in Telangana State, thus denying promotions to existing Telangana staff besides denying the chance to secure government jobs for fresh TS graduates and unemployed at entry-level. The Telangana employees argue that if promotions are not given to the existing Telangana staff to accommodate Andhra Pradesh employees, there will be no scope for fresh vacancies at the entry-level.

G. Deviprasad, the TNGOs Association president said, “The clause 18 (f), issued by the Kamalnathan committee, will be detrimental to the interests of the TS employees. All the vacant posts at higher-level in TS will be occupied by Seemandhra employees as there are no sufficient higher-level employees from the TS. With this, existing TS employees will not get promotions to move to higher-level. They continue to remain at lower-level, thereby no fresh vacancies will arise at the lower-level. This will deny the opportunity for fresh Telangana graduates to secure government jobs. We demand Kamalnathan committee to withdraw 18(f) clause immediately. If not, we are ready to go on another agitation like we fought for achieving T-state”.

It is evident that Tuesday turns to be the deadline for submitting the objections to the Kamalanathan committee.