The recently reconstituted Telangana State Minorities Commission has been finding it difficult to function full-time as it does not have a furnished office space.
“There is a commission office at Erramanzil. The office we have now is too small and it’s unlikely that the the body will move there. We have been told that the commission is functioning on and off from the chairman’s home,” said a source, who did not wish to be identified.
It was on January 3 that the Telanagana government gave the orders for the minorities panel to be reconstituted with retired engineer-in-chief Mohammed Qamaruddin as its chairperson.
Speaking to The Hindu , Mr. Qamaruddin confirmed that they were yet to move into an office.
He, however, clarified that two potential spaces have been identified. “One is a floor in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board building. The other is in the Secretariat,” he said.
Mr. Qamaruddin said it would take about a fortnight for the Commission to operate from a new premises.
“We have received three or four petitions so far. But we can act on them only once we get into a new office. The government is fully cooperating with us. As of the moment, I am operating from my house. It is something like a camp office. Once or twice I have visited the office at Erramanzil,” he said.
The TSMC was reconstituted several months after the Abid Rasool Khan-led panel was evicted from the Ragahva Sadan on Raj Bhavan Road.
While Mr. Khan had maintained that he could function as a chairman till the bifurcation of the Commission, the Telangana government asserted that his term had come to an end.
