The Telangana Public Sector Employees’ Federation has condemned the Andhra Pradesh government’s attempts to link the employee division with the division of assets and liabilities in public sector units, and demanded for nativity to be the sole criterion for staff division. As per the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, division of employees in Schedule IX institutions is to be taken up by the respective corporations, contended R. Sudheer Babu, the Founder-Chairman of the Federation, at a press conference here on Wednesday. Though 22 months have passed since bifurcation, there has not been any attempt by the corporations towards finalising modalities for the division, he said.
The Federation members expressed anger over letters by AP Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao to Sheela Bhide Committee in August last, informing that the division of assets and liabilities would be kept on hold till staff division was done based on population ratio, and another circular to all the Secretaries and Principal Secretaries to return recommendations for division of assets and liabilities back to the Committee.
The brief of Sheela Bhide Committee does not constitute making recommendations for employee division, and expecting it to do the same goes against the APRA 2014, they said. Population ratio as the criterion for staff division is not acceptable to Telangana employees, as it goes against the spirit of the movement for separate State. For the last 60 years, no order pertaining to local status for Telangana was implemented in recruitments, promotions and transfers, and employees were not recruited on the basis of population ratio, Mr. Sudheer Babu pointed out. Nativity should be the sole criterion for employee division, and if the same is denied and the process is further delayed, the anger among PSU employees will give rise to another agitation, with the demand for division based on ‘1956 local status’, the Federation representatives warned.
Telangana Public Sector Employees’ Federation chairman R. Sudheer Babu says nativity should be the sole criterion for employee division
