Amrapali Kata, Ronald Rose, Abhishek Mohanty Out Of Telangana

The Union government today denied the request of 11 All India Services officers of the Andhra Pradesh cadre who sought the Telangana cadre, and ordered these officers to immediately report to their home State of Andhra Pradesh.

The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) issued instructions to the 11 bureaucrats to report to AP by October 16.

Among the 11 are IAS officers Vakati Karuna (2004 batch), Ronald Rose (2006 batch), Vani Prasad (1995 batch), Amrapali Kata (2010 batch) and Prasanthi (2009 batch), and IPS officers former DGP Anjani Kumar (1990 batch), Abhilasha Bisht (1994 batch) and Abhishek Mohanty (2011 batch).

Prominent among these is Kata, who is currently serving in the high profile role of GHMC Commissioner, and who will now have to go to Andhra Pradesh. The IAS officer from the 2010 Andhra Pradesh cadre had sought to be considered a Telangana domicile, a request that has now been denied based on the recommendations of the Khandekar Committee.

The Khandekar Committee, which was tasked with reviewing such requests, noted that the request of the officer who had challenged the approved guidelines for the allocation of IAS officers after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014 was beyond the scope of the established principles, which had already been upheld by the High Court.

In a detailed report, the committee said that Kata had cited her "permanent address" as Vishakhapatnam for correspondence purposes in her UPSC form, but had requested to be treated as an insider of Telangana, and that the Pratyush Sinha Committee, which was responsible for the initial allocations, had already ruled out her request based on the approved guidelines.

The Ministry accepted the Khandekar Committee's recommendation to reject her claim.

Kata will now be required to transition to the Andhra Pradesh cadre following this decision.