Even as the TRS government has been drawing
much flak for "ill-treating" its employees, the government employees, originally from Telangana, who have been posted in Andhra Pradesh for the last six years today said that they were still waiting for Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to sanction their transfers to Telangana.
The employees had organised a meeting at the Hyderabad Press Club in Somajiguda along with their counterparts - natives of Andhra Pradesh employed in Telangana - to discuss the matter.
Speaking on the occasion, they appealed to the Chief Minister to take steps to initiate their transfer from AP back to Telangana.
"While a total of 120 employees, who are natives of the state but are working in Andhra Pradesh, are awaiting their transfers to Telangana, 1,200 employees belonging to Andhra Pradesh, employed in Telangana, are also awaiting their transfers out of the state. Though the CM had promised to resolve this issue on several occasions, he is yet to do so. We urge him to look into the issue at the earliest," they said.
BC Welfare Association national president R Krishnaiah was also present at the meeting.
Krishnaiah said that the problems of the employees of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand were solved within six months of the formation of the states, and rebuked the TRS regime for not being able to solve similar problems even six years after the creation of Telangana.
He urged the CMs of both the states to "sit together and solve the problems of the employees".
The Telangana government has recently attracted much censure for its "failure" to support the government employees in the state. TJS founder and president M Kodandaram had come down heavily on the TRS-led state government, and alleged that it was
hatching conspiracies to delay the implementation of the 11th Pay Revision Commission for the employees.
Although the state government has taken some steps to resolve the employees' problems since then, the complaints of the government employees posted in AP is likely to bring the government bad press again.