Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao met Union Home Secretary L.C. Goyal in New Delhi on Thursday amid escalating tensions between the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments over disputes over the implementation of the AP State Reorganisation Act, 2014.
Mr. Krishna Rao sought time from the Home Secretary to present a detailed account of the differences right from the sharing of assets and services of the institutions under schedule IX and X and instances, when the Telangana government took “unilateral decisions” violating the provisions and spirit of the Act. The latest provocation came when the Telangana power utilities gave relieving orders to over 1,200 electricity employees working in the TSSPDPCL who hailed from Andhra Pradesh without following the provisions of the Act. The employees approached court and the latter issued stay orders but the Telangana power utilities were yet to implement the orders.
Mr. Rao is believed to have explained various instances of violation of the Act in the last one year when AP officials were physically prevented from entering the premises of schedule IX institutions, unilateral division of assets of common institutions, arrest of a AP Labour Department Officer by the Telangana police, harassment of employees hailing from AP, freezing of accounts of common institutions like AP Board of Intermediate Education and disputes over release of water and power.
It is learnt that the nearly two-hour meeting was confined to highlighting the violations of the provisions of the AP State Reorganisation Act by the Telangana government.
The Centre in the last one year had meetings now and then with the Chief Secretaries of both the States on different issues but the meetings apparently ended up with officials giving their stand point on the latest contentious issue. Thursday’s meeting was utilised to bring to the Union Government official’s notice to various provisions of the Act and differences over their implementation between the two States, it is learnt.
