No place for 'illegal' Seemandhra employees in Telangana: TRS

In a sign that can bode no good to anyone in the already troubled Andhra Pradesh, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao categorically stated that employees from Seemandhra would have to vacate posts held in the Telangana region once the new state is created. According to this report in the Times of India, a letter from Rao to the Group of Ministers (GoM) which was constituted to look into the grievances of all parties before the state was officially formed, had said that Seemandhra employees were ‘illegally’ recruited into government jobs, and needed to be removed. [caption id=“attachment_1209555” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  K ChandraShekhar Rao: PTI[/caption] The report quoted the letter as saying: “As per our rough estimation, 30% of the government employees presently working in Telangana belong to Seemandhra and all of them were illegally recruited over the decades,” the letter signed by KCR and sent to the GoM says. “The Telangana employees have suffered gross injustice at the hands of AP govt. Many non-locals who were recruited against quota of 20% (Dist category), 30% (Non-gazetted category) and 40% (Gazetted category) have to be repatriated based on the definition of “local candidate” as defined in the Presidential Order 1975, and on the basis of nativity as reflected in the service registers.” The letter is certain to create further tension in Andhra Pradesh, where news of the bifurcation saw a prolonged strike across all sectors, including a complete outage that threatened to trip the entire southern grid. The GoM which received the letter from Rao and the TRS, will submit its report to the cabinet ahead of parliament’s winter session, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Friday. “We will submit the report before the winter session begins,” Shinde told reporters. The session is likely in December. However he has refused to say by when the new state would be formed “There is a process. When parliament passes the Telangana bill, the new state will come,” he said. The seven-member GoM has held two meetings in the past few weeks in which it has held detailed discussions over sharing of natural resources like river water, land, power, distribution of assets and demarcation of boundaries. The panel will also examine how both Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh can function efficiently from Hyderabad, their common capital for 10 years. The panel has sought detailed reports department-wise both fom central and state ministries. These together with public feedback on the proposed bifurcation will be debated in the next meeting of the GoM 7  November. with inputs from IANS