Chandrababu Naidu’s decision to increase the retirement age of Andhra employees to 60 had an unintended consequence. Many Andhra origin employees who were hitherto refusing to admit their nativity and who even declared themselves ‘local’ in service books all of a sudden decided and declared they are not locals but Andhras and petitioned their HoDs to immediately transfer them to the services of AP Government. The HoDs in turn reported to the Telangana Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma that more than 800 such employees want to be immediately relocated to Andhra. Most of these employees are reportedly within few years of getting retired and want to take advantage of Naidu Government’s latest decision. “They fear that once the distribution is done, moving ...

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