: With travel bags slung around their shoulders, travel-weary employees of the Commissionerate of Agriculture reached the office premises on Thursday night and were welcomed with flowers, a cup of hot tea and snacks. About 80 personnel of various ranks and administrative staff arrived at the makeshift Agriculture Commissionerate offices at Chuttugunta from Hyderabad in two buses. Commissioner Dhanunjaya Reddy was at hand to receive them.
A team of officers led by Joint Director, Agriculture, V.D. Krupa Das welcomed the staff, who reached the town at about 7 pm.
The offices of Commissioner, Agriculture would be formally opened by Minister P. Pulla Rao on Saturday.
For most of the employees, it was a mixed feeling to leave Hyderabad, a cosmopolitan city where they had built their careers and houses.
“I felt nostalgic after bidding goodbye to my colleagues in Hyderabad where I have lived for 33 years. But I also feel happy that I am coming to my native place, Tenali, where most of my relatives live. We hope that our capital will be better than Hyderabad. While we are happy with most of the provisions like 30 per cent HRA and five-day week, we are a bit upset about lack of clarity on division of corpus of the cooperative society. Most of us have taken loans up to Rs.3 lakh from the society and the entire corpus of Rs.3 crore is now with Telangana,’’ said Ravi Kumar, Deputy Director, Crop Insurance.
In all, 80 personnel of various ranks and administrative staff arrive at offices at Chuttugunta
