: The shifting of employees allotted to Andhra Pradesh to the new capital region Amaravati continued on Friday with staff of more departments moving out of the city.
Friday witnessed batches of employees belonging to the Commercial Taxes, Information and Public Relations and other departments moving out from Hyderabad to new capital region in special buses arranged for the purpose.
The Information department officials initially sought time for shifting their base, but had to move out of the city as the government was firm on the June 27 deadline for the first batch of employees to report to duties in Amaravati region.
The government had accordingly made arrangements to house the I&PR Department in Vijayawada itself unlike the Agriculture and allied departments which are being located in Guntur and surrounding areas.
Even as a section of employees appeared reluctant to move out of the city which, they believed, was their permanent abode, an assistant commercial taxes officer —Padma – showed the way for the employees by leaving the city on a bicycle.
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Ms. Padma had commenced her journey, covering 280 km and likely to be completed in a couple of days, in the afternoon. She said her effort was aimed at motivating the employees to shift to the new capital and join forces with the government which was sparing no effort to build the State from scratch.
The ACTO said she wanted to send a message that Amaravati was also a safe zone contrary to reports in a section of the media over the safety of the employees.
The shifting of employees is expected to come as a blessing in disguise for the unemployed youth.
The government, according to sources, is contemplating filling close to 6,000 posts in the Police Department and a major chunk of them would be deployed for capital region security.
Leading by example, Assistant Commercial Taxes Officer Padma sets off for Amaravati on a bicycle
