The Kamalnathan Committee’s guidelines approved by the Prime Minister for distribution of State-level employees between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have been uploaded in the State Reorganisation portal.
The committee, which met here on Thursday, discussed the next course of action for implementing the guidelines and decided to speed up the process for notifying the cadre strength, bifurcation of cadre and categories of posts on the basis of data to be provided by the heads of departments in the specified online format for transparency.
The GAD (State Reorganisation) Andhra Pradesh, which is handling the process, was given four additional officers to upload the provisional list of cadre strength and division of posts in about 15 to 20 days. It will give clarity on the number of posts vis-a-vis personnel available in both the States and the committee will then seek to know from both the States if they like to create any supernumerary posts to absorb all native employees under section 18(g) of the guidelines.
Sources said it will make sense to call for options from employees only after clarity emerged on State-level categories of posts in all departments. The options, however, will not guarantee that the employee will get the State of their choice but subject to the guidelines, they added.
The meeting, attended by Chief Secretaries of both the States -- I.Y.R.Krishna Rao and Rajiv Sharma, Joint Secretary, State Reorganisation, DoPT, Archana Varma, GAD secretaries and other members from both the States and chaired by C. R. Kamalnathan -- considered various issues that will crop up during distribution.
Thus, the sources said, the meeting decided to focus on cadre strength and division of posts to bring clarity on the categories of posts in each department and to demarcate which are State-level posts in the headquarters and in the field as well as posts in State- level institutions both at the headquarters and in the field.
The process of division of posts will also take into account those with geographical intensity and which are the departments where posts will be divided on the basis of population and publish them and seek feedback for any objections. Only after this process, apparently options will be called for from employees.
The committee however will not divide the posts in the Schedule X institutions as they are not under its purview.
