Good news for civil servants who have a yen for teaching. Now they can put their academic skills to better use by delivering lectures in universities. With the University Grants Commission deciding to permit both serving and retired IAS officers to take up teaching assignments for a period of six months to three years, quite a few of them are excited. They are said to be even thinking of taking a sabbatical to avail the opportunity. They will be paid Rs.1,000 per lecture and not more than Rs.80,000 per month. The civil servants can bring their immense administrative knowledge to the classrooms and also guide students in preparing projects.
The universities can also avail their services in framing of the curricula.
Seating issue
haunts APSRTC chief
When Nanduri Sambasiva Rao, vice-chairman and managing director of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, inspected an office chamber for himself within the Bus Bhavan in the midst of the strike by bus crew, many in the corporation believed he was shifting as the accommodation that he occupied in the building purchased problems for him. Worse still, Mr. Rao went on the inspection immediately after an angry exchange of words with a union leader.
However, enquiries revealed that he was moving into the chairman’s chambers in the ‘A’ Block in tune with the division of properties of the corporation to pave way for its bifurcation.
The entire ‘B’ block where Mr. Rao is accommodated will belong to Telangana State Road Transport Corporation while the ‘A’ block will house the APSRTC.
Complaint against Kamalanathan
The Group I officers association of Telangana government created a flutter last week lodging a complaint with Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma that the C.R. Kamalanathan committee which went into bifurcation of State-level posts was deliberately posting officers of Andhra Pradesh origin to Telangana by giving them freedom to exercise options.
Demanding an enquiry into officers posted to Telangana based on options, the association highlighted that a number of them were absorbed in key revenue generating departments like Transport, Commercial Taxes and Excise. There was the danger of the officers passing on crucial information about the departments to Andhra Pradesh government.
The association wanted posting of officers on the basis of nativity but, on the contrary, the committee took into consideration options.
State Government
on overdrive
The Telangana government seems to have focussed on taking up recruitment in various departments by inviting information about the vacancy position in all of them.
When Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma reviewed the vacancies in government jobs recently, he was provided data only in the Panchayat Raj Department wherein the process of recruitment was already set in motion. Officials of the Finance Department were said to have explained to him that they cleared jobs only in Panchayat Raj because the vacancy position was readily available. Mr. Sharma then ordered all other departments to furnish details.
Reporting by: J.S. Ifthekhar, Suresh Krishnamoorthy,
& N. Rahul
