The appointment of six new members of Telangana State Public Service Commission on Saturday will go down as the beginning of an elaborate exercise to fill up nominated posts of the State government which was expected to be completed by Dasara.
The leadership of ruling TRS has launched identification of party activists at the grassroots level to fill up the posts, focussing on Assembly constituencies where it has MLAs, in the wake of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s instructions at the legislature party meeting last week. It was, however, likely that most of the panels to represent agricultural market, temple and library committees will be filled on the basis of reports submitted by TRS legislators and MPs.
The posts of chairman and director of 17 State-level corporations will be filled directly under the supervision of the party. The Scheduled Castes Corporation and a State-level cultural body alone have chairmen so far.
The MLAs will submit the reports to a three member committee headed by Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao which will scrutinise the names. The committee will also consider whether any of active TRS activists were left out in selection.
Many of the aspirants for nominated posts who have waited for over a year since the TRS assumed the reins of power will be accommodated as part of the drive, sources said. At the village and mandal headquarters level, the demand was for chairmanship of market and temple committees. The MLAs will have to convince quite a few aspirants where a consensus was not reached.
The reduction of term of the market committees from three to one years has made their job easier as the post of chairmanship could be rotated where there were multiple aspirants.
Beside the chairman, there will be 14 directors in the market committees, of whom five will represent SCs, STs, BCs, minorities and women. Three posts of director were in general category, two for licensed traders and four for local sarpanch, fishermen, agriculture, horticulture and other cooperative societies. People with a devotional bent of mind were chosen as chairman and directors of temple committees. MLAs face the challenge of balancing political and caste equations in the selection of nominees.
The posts of chairman and director of 17 State-level corporations will be filled directly under the supervision of the party
