Red tape has contributed to the delay in cadre allocation of All India Service officers between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in a big way. The delay has also led to holding back of distribution of lower-level officers between the two States.
Though the list of IAS, IPS and IFS officers was finalised by the Pratyush Sinha committee two weeks ago, it did not reach the Prime Minister’s Office till Thursday when Narendra Modi left for US. The C.R. Kamalanathan Committee prepared the draft guidelines for distribution of officers in State-level posts in the first week of September. Both the documents were sent to the Department of Personnel and Training for vetting ten days back, but they remained there ever since. They were to be sent to the PMO from DoPT after the Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh looked into it. The officers failed to understand what prevented Mr. Singh from sending the files to the PMO before Mr. Modi left.
KCR keen on posting AIS officers
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has firmed up his plans to give posting to All India Service officers allotted to the State in the first week of October. That is, if the allocation of the officers is completed by the month-end. Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma and DGP Anurag Sharma explained to Mr. Rao that 15 IAS and 6 IPS officers who figured in the initial list prepared by Pratyush Sinha Committee were replaced in the final list. Mr. Rao was said to have enquired from them whether the changes were justified.
Senior police officers all set for annual meet
The prospect of the annual conference of Directors and Inspectors General of Police of States at Guwahati in November has altered the preparations of senior police officers who would be attending the conference from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This is the first time that the conference will take place outside of New Delhi.
The officers have not yet got the agenda for the conference, but they feel that it will be more tilted towards the character of violence in the north east. The linkages of north east with their respective States have topped their preparations instead of the routine Naxalite, crime and gender violence.
On a name
changing spree
Change in governments brings with it change in the names of welfare schemes in the States. In AP, the Chandrababu Naidu government has replaced the name of health insurance for poor from Rajiv Gandhi to NTR, founder-president of TDP. IAS officers wonder how many more schemes will undergo name change. The trend has already caught up in Telangana where the veterinary, agriculture and health universities have got the names of stalwarts of Telangana – P.V. Narasimha Rao, K. Jaishanker and Kaloji Narayana Rao respectively. Another Telangana icon who may soon find his name on schemes is Konda Laxman Bapuji. The Officers must prepare to track down more personalities in history lane.
