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Telangana govt staff want zonal system scrapped
Welcoming the decision of the Telangana government to form new districts, employee unions have asked the Chief Secretary to do away with the zonal system since it has lost its relevance after the formation of Telangana state.
​Hyderabad: Welcoming the decision of the Telangana government to form new districts, employee unions have asked the Chief Secretary to do away with the zonal system since it has lost its relevance after the formation of Telangana state.
The employees’ unions, led by TGO president V Srinivas Goud, G Devi Prasad and Telangana Secretariat Employees Association president Narendar Rao Madhawaram, gave a 13-point memorandum to the Chief Secretary on Wednesday.
Speaking to the media, Srinivas Goud said the multi-zonal posts, particularly specified gazetted category posts, should be notified as state-wide posts immediately. He said the existing zonal cadres should be reorganized and re-notified either as district cadre or as state cadre basing on their job charts/ scale of pay/ violability etc. Notifying the posts as district cadre would help locals to get 85 per cent posts, he said.
Srinivas Goud further said the existing employees in the cadres of district and zone should be allocated to the districts, pending dispensing of the zonal system, since the new districts would start functioning from October this year.
For allocation of existing employees among the districts, a committee headed by a senior retired cadre officer should be appointed immediately, he suggested. Joint Staff Council (JSC), as was earlier, should be constituted immediately to discuss and resolve employee/teacher related issues, he said.
The leaders said that as per the Districts Administration Act, the only administrative unit mentioned in it was the Revenue Administration Unit. Revenue establishment in a district such as offices of collector and joint collector should be set up first in the new district and then other departments should follow.
The allocation of employees to the respective districts should be done as per the guidelines to be prepared by the said committee and approved by the state government in consultation with the service associations.
Devi Prasad said that there were imbalances in the zonal system, hence the government should remove this. He said that the cadre strength in districts, HoDs, and Secretariat should be increased in all categories proportionately. The reorganisation of cadre in the existing zonal system should also be entrusted to the committee for its recommendations.
The existing system of appointment by transfer of employees from district offices to heads of departments and from HoDs to Secretariat and from Secretariat to district administration must be continued and it should be extended to other cadres and departments in which there is no such provision at present.
