The Centre has turned down the requests of 14 senior bureaucrats working in Telangana to reconsider their repatriation to Andhra Pradesh cadre. The 11 IAS and three IPS officers have been working in Telangana after the bifurcation of AP in 2014 and wanted to stay back in Telangana despite their allocation to the AP cadre.
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) has directed these officers to join AP cadre by October 16. The Telangana government has been directed to release these officers and file a compliance report.
The DoPT has written two separate letters to Chief Secretaries of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh informing them about its decision. The Telangana government has been instructed to ensure the prompt release of these officers and submit a compliance report.
Centre’s order is considered to be a severe jolt to these 14 officers as the similar order had earlier been given to the then Chief Secretary, Somesh Kumar. He initially managed to stay back in Telangana on the basis of a CAT order and took voluntary retirement after being forced to join AP cadre.
The IAS officers working in Telangana and now repatriated to AP are: GHMC Commissioner Amrapali Kata, Energy Secretary D Ronald Rose, Tourism Secretary A Vani Prasad, Women & Child Development Secretary Vakati Karuna and Forests & Environment Secretary M Prashanti. Similarly, NTR District Collector Gummella Srijana, Kadapa Collector Siva Sankar Lotheti, G Hari Kiran, Special CS Anantha Ramu were allotted to AP and had been serving there but challenged their allocation, when the CAT pronounced order in their favour.
IPS officers to be repatriated to Andhra include Anjani Kumar, Abhilasha Bisht and Abhishek Mohanty.
