Unhappy with low post, IAS officer quits service

Hyderabad: Dissatisfaction seems to be brewing among some senior IAS officers. While senior IAS officer A Murali stirred a storm in the bureaucratic circles on Saturday by deciding to quit, it is said that a few more are unhappy that they have been given posts below their rank.

Murali, who was the district collector of Bhupalpally till recently, has applied for voluntary retirement. He urged Chief Secretary S K Joshi to accept his resignation.

It is learnt that Murali may join active politics as he is maintaining close relations with some Congress leaders in New Delhi, including K Raju, who is the AICC SC Cell Chairman and also Advisor to former AICC president Rahul Gandhi till recently.

The 2006 batch officer Murali, it is learnt, was unhappy for being shifted to a non-focal post as Director-General Telangana State Archives and Research Centre for Ethno Sociology.

He was not even provided with basic facilities like an official car and staff in his office. It is also said that he was shifted to such a post in the wake of certain comments he made during his tenure as Bhupalpally district collector.

These comments had led to major controversy. Murali still has about one-year service.

Sources said that Murali was unhappy ever since the government cut all the facilities, including car transportation and required staff in his office.

He felt the government ill-treated him for the last two years and also denied the respect he deserved as a senior bureaucrat in the government.

Sources said that some more senior IAS officials posted in non-focal departments were also planning to quit services as they were neither given assignments nor utilised services by the state government.

It is being said that officials like BR Meena, KY Naik, Champalal and Bharathi Lakpathi Naik were among those who have been given posts which are below their rank.