The electricity employees and engineers associations have resented the decision of the Supreme Court appointed committee to let the staff of power utilities in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to give options on States where they would like to work as it would lead to higher posts in the utilities in Telangana cornered by officers of Andhra Pradesh origin.
Effectively, the one man committee headed by retired Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari would be giving legal coating to the injustice perpetrated by rulers from Andhra in power sector of Telangana in the last 60 years. In the absence of implementation of Presidential Order on local reservations, the top posts in power utilities in the combined State were held by officers from Andhra Pradesh.
All top levels
They included Divisional Engineers at the division level, Superintending Engineers in districts and Chief Engineers at State level, said N. Sivaji, president, Telangana Electricity Engineers Association.
He said the committee more or less came up with the same guidelines as those evolved by Kamalanathan Committee which went bifurcation of employees of all other departments though it was agreed that they did not hold good for power staff. It was unfortunate that the committee did not see the failure of power utilities of Andhra Pradesh to absorb its staff working in Telangana like what the latter State did vice versa, the union leader added.
