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Slash Group I direct posts
In what comes as a dampener to Group I aspirants in Telangana, the state government has constituted a committee to study the proposal to reduce state cadre posts drastically through direct recruitment and fill the key posts in every department through promotions.
Hyderabad: In what comes as a dampener to Group I aspirants in Telangana, the state government has constituted a committee to study the proposal to reduce state cadre posts drastically through direct recruitment and fill the key posts in every department through promotions.
The Committee headed by Telangana State Beverages Corporation Chairman G Devi Prasad Rao will study the issue and make recommendations to the government after holding talks with the employees' unions who are demanding a cut in the direct recruitment of Group I posts by 80 per cent from the available vacancies. The state government constituted the committee to study the reorganisation of the existing zonal system in tune with the demand to create more zones from the employees’ unions.
At present, vacant state cadre Group I posts are being filled through direct recruitment and promotions in the ratio of 40: 60 respectively. The employees’ unions have been demanding to bring down the direct recruitment of the Group I posts to 20 per cent from the existing 40 per cent facilitating promotion for the lower cadre officials with their seniority.
At present, all the state cadre posts like RDO, DSP, CTO, RTO, Excise Superintendent, District Registrar (Cooperative societies), DPO and so on were existing in 35 departments in the state.
The employees’ unions also brought to the notice of the government that state cadre posts are open to all including non-locals, who pursued Telugu as second language, to compete in the exam and get selected for any Group I post. This provision has come as tough challenge for Telangana locals to compete with non-locals including from the neighbouring Andhra to get selected in the competitive exam.
After bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, not a single notification for Group I posts was issued, Telangana Employees union President A Padma Chary, said that before issuing notification, the unions were demanding reduction in the state cadre posts and to convert them into multi zonal posts.
Once the state cadre posts are made as multi zonal posts, he said locals will get opportunity to get selected without any competition from non-locals. The increased quota of the state cadre posts through promotions will help the senior officials to render service as state officers.
The committee is seriously discussing the issues raised by the employees’ unions on state cadre posts and will come to a conclusion before finalising the creation of new zones. The unions were demanding the creation of four new zones in addition to the existing two and two multi zones in the state ensuring the protection of the services of the existing employees and also put to rest the problems to be raised in the new selections in future.
