What prompted the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to refer the list of All-India Service (AIS) officers allotted between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to the Pratyush Sinha committee again? This was a question haunting many IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service officers in both States till a few days ago.
Finally, they got to know that some IAS and other officers had personally met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed their grievance that the committee had been unfair to them. Mr. Modi, who by then had the list in his office, sent it to the DoPT for reconsideration. The DoPT took the matter to the Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, who sent the list back to the committee with the mandate that it receive objections from officers once again till October 25.
The committee had earlier invited objections to the provisional list from August 22 to September 15. This brings matters back to square one as the red tape will get repeated.
KCR virtually chasing
IAS officers
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is virtually chasing IAS officers who are provisionally allotted to the State to pull up their socks ahead of the crucial budget session of the Assembly. Away from the humdrum of the Secretariat where visitors make a beeline for him, Mr. Rao called over some of the officers to the National Academy of Construction at Hi-Tec city to ask them to immediately issue executive orders for the 43 decisions taken by the Cabinet in one stroke, in June.
Earlier, he asked the officers to prepare micro-level plans for development, then he engaged them in the intensive household survey and, more recently, he constituted fourteen committees with them to frame policies in different areas of administration.
Inter board bifurcation
Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao signed the file constituting a separate Board of Intermediate Education for Telangana which threw into disarray preparations of the existing board to conduct a combined annual examination for students of both States.
The IAS officers in-charge of education in Andhra Pradesh were least prepared for the bifurcation as the board was in the tenth Schedule of the State Reorganisation Act, by virtue of which it got a year’s time to complete the process.
