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Telangana likely to retain employees of merged Khammam mandals
It appears that finally there is a solution for the problems of the government employees working in the seven mandals of Khammam district which were merged with the successor State of Andhra Pradesh. Stuck to their demand to continue in Telangana right from the day one after the bifurcation of the State and the subsequent merger of seven mandals with the AP, majority of employees belonging to 22 various departments
Khammam: It appears that finally there is a solution for the problems of the government employees working in the seven mandals of Khammam district which were merged with the successor State of Andhra Pradesh. Stuck to their demand to continue in Telangana right from the day one after the bifurcation of the State and the subsequent merger of seven mandals with the AP, majority of employees belonging to 22 various departments have been at loggerheads with both the State governments.
In spite of this, neither Telangana nor the AP government gave an audience to the woes of 1,585 employees out of a total 2,421 working in VR Puram, Kunavaram, Chintoor, Nellipaka, Kukunoor and Velairpadu mandals. As many as 836 employees opted to move to AP.
The employees willing to continue in Telangana contend that their merger which took place on September 16, 2014 has no legal sanctity though the AP government got them under its administration by issuing a gazette. Mumpu Udyoga Upadhyayula Forum (MUUF) convener Challa Nageswara Rao said as they were taking salaries from the Telangana government, the competent authority was Khammam DEO who could transfer them. As it did not happen till now, the AP administration had no authority to prevail over them, he said.
It may be mentioned here that all the merged mandal employees have been getting salaries from the Telangana government despite the gazette issued by the AP. For December and January, the West Godavari district administration had paid salaries to the employees working in Kukunoor and Velairpadu mandals. The administration was forced to credit the salaries to the individual accounts of the employees after the respective drawing and disbursing officers (DDOs) failed to cooperate with them, it is learnt.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the East Godavari district administration is also making arrangements to pay the salaries to employees working in Chintoor, VR Puram, Kunavaram and Nellipaka mandals. The MUUF co-convener M Rama Chary said the employees, who opted for Telangana, didn’t draw their salaries paid by the AP government.
The staff liked to remain in Telangana, he said, questioning the sanctity of their transfers to AP without ‘Last Pay Certificate’. The MUUF leaders on Tuesday with the help of Minister for Roads and Buildings Tummala Nageswara Rao met Special Secretary (Finance) K Ramakrishna Rao and the Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary S Narsing Rao in Hyderabad and requested them to continue their service in Telangana. Sources said that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was likely to take a favourable decision in a couple of days.
