CR Kamalanathan Committee’s draft guidelines are issued. The draft guidelines are intended to allocate around 51,000 state-cadre employees between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states. You can download the full copy of the committee’s release that includes guidelines as well the mechanism put in place to implement the guidelines. Kamalanathan Committee Employee Allocation Guidelines The committee has called for objections and suggestions from not only employees, but also from the respective State governments and public. Ten days are given for this. Later, the committee, if necessary, will take the objections and suggestions, and issue final guidelines. The final guidelines should be accepted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After final guidelines, the state-cadre employees will be allocated to AP and Telangana. Even if any employee is ...

The Kamalanathan committee has released the guidelines for allocation of employees between 2 states of Telangana & AP. Telangana employees announced their reservations on the guidelines and said the committee hasn’t considered any of their representations over injustice being done to Telangana employees. Among the many issues they raised over the guidelines are the options being given to employees to choose the state they serve and when considering nativity as one criterion, limiting it to seven years of continuous education. Telangana emplyees also faulted placing Principal Secretary of AP Govt. as the nodal officer to monitor the distribution of employees. The monitoring too would be done from AP Secretariat.  “The guidelines show clear partiality towards Seemandhra employees. The nodal officer who ...