Unified service rules await CM’s nod

Unified service rules await CM’s nod
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The long pending issue of unified service rules for the Telangana government and Panchayat Raj school teachers is getting its final touches. The Directorate of School Education here sent a draft of the rules to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday for a nod. The Chief Minister is expected to take a decision once he returns from the national capital.

If unified service rules are pressed into service, several posts like Mandal Education Officers, DIET lecturer posts and junior lecturers can be filled through promotions which have been lying vacant for quite a long time

Hyderabad: The long pending issue of unified service rules for the Telangana government and Panchayat Raj school teachers is getting its final touches. The Directorate of School Education here sent a draft of the rules to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday for a nod. The Chief Minister is expected to take a decision once he returns from the national capital.

The Supreme Court had asked the Centre to obtain the President’s consent to amend Article 371D of the Constitution before making the unified service rules for both government and Panchayat Raj teachers.

The apex court quashed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh government in 2008 and held the then issued orders for unified service rules as illegal and invalid. With the Supreme Court ruling, the State can ask the Centre to seek President’s assent for amendment of the 1975 Presidential Order for re-organisation of cadres.

If unified service rules are pressed into service, several post like Mandal Education Officers, DIET lecturer posts and junior lecturers can be filled through promotions which have been lying vacant from quite a long time.

While this process requires the State Assembly resolution, the government intends to update the Centre on the cabinet’s decision which is likely to happen in this month. To speed up the process, Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiyam Srihari will visit New Delhi for a dialogue with the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Human Resource Development officials.

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