Nativity and not options is going to be the criteria for allocation of officers of All India Services - IAS and IPS - to the Telangana State to be formed by June 2 and the residuary Andhra Pradesh.
That was the consensus arrived at by top officials of the Centre and State governments after reviewing the complex issue of distribution of IAS and IPS officers between Telangana and A.P, official sources said, on condition of anonymity.
The decision was based on the methodology adopted when Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand States were carved out from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar States, respectively.
There was reluctance from IAS and IPS officers to work in Chhattisgarh and Uttaranchal while they showed interest to go to Jharkhand, the Advisory Committee constituted under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 noted. The committee, however, decided that allocation of officers to the new State should be based on the domicile status declared by the officer concerned at the time of appointment to the service.
Here too, a near similar situation had emerged with many officers preferring to stay in Telangana for various reasons.
“Better educational and medical facilities, cosmopolitan city culture and other factors drive many officers to stay in Hyderabad and opt for Telangana,” reasoned a senior IPS officer.
In case of IPS officers, not many are opting for residuary Andhra Pradesh. Interestingly, IPS officers belonging to Telangana based on domicile status are not more than 30 out of the 204 IPS officers in present Andhra Pradesh. Of these, around 10 are directly selected for the IPS while the remaining were conferred IPS (joined State Police Service as DSP and eventually promoted).
Since 100 IPS officers are to be allocated to Telangana State, there is likelihood of all IPS officers from Telangana getting the same State cadre. However, distribution of officers is getting complex from this point as the principle of cadre composition states that 33.3 per cent of AIS officers of the State should be direct recruits.
And, what is yet to be still decided is about the distribution of State cadre officers conferred with IAS and IPS between Telangana and A.P. States.
