Kamalanathan Committee Flooded With Complaints From TS Employees

The Kamalnathan Committee constituted for distribution of employees between AP and TS has been overwhelmed with  objections from Telangana employees over giving “options” to employees to choose the state of their choice on  grounds of spouses and health issues. The result is that the earlier date of Aug 14th for it’s meeting is now moved to August 23, to buy time to brainstorm over the huge number of objections.

The Committee had given 10 days to file objections on draft guidelines issued by it for distribution of employees, which ended on August 5. The Committee will meet on August 23 to draft the final guidelines after examining the objections filed by employees and refer it to the Centre for approval.

More than 90% of the objections were filed by Telangana employees, who are aggrieved by the guidelines ignoring every representation they made. Primarily all employees demanded the removal of provision to appoint AP employee in TS Govt when there is no employee in the relevant cadre.

The TS employees also demanded that the committee order an inquiry by an independent agency into the service records of all the AP employees to determine their nativity. They complained that the service records have been manipulated to claim nativity of TS. The AP employees refuted the complaints and said the committee is free to order any inquiry on this issue. But Kamalanathan Committee, despite the no objection, refused to look into this aspect.

The TS employees sought options be given to AP employees to work in Telangana only if either wife or husband is working in Telangana and not if both are working for AP government.

Similarly, those seeking options to continue in Telangana on health grounds should be asked to undergo medical tests conducted by the government medical board instead of allowing reports from private and corporate hospitals.

Interestingly, there were not many objections from the AP employees. They only urged the Committee that the provision to give “options” for all the employees be strictly implemented in order to  ensure that the interests of all the employees are protected.