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Unified Service Rules get Centre’s nod
The Union Law Ministry has cleared the Unified Service Rules file of teachers belonging to both the Telugu states here on Thursday.
Nearly three lakh teachers in both the Telugu states would get the benefit with retrospective effect as the Law Ministry clears the file to this effect
New Delhi: The Union Law Ministry has cleared the Unified Service Rules file of teachers belonging to both the Telugu states here on Thursday.
Special Representative of the Telangana government at New Delhi Venugopala Chari, who met Law Secretary Narayana Raju here on Thursday along with MLCs and PRTU leaders, told media that the long-pending demand of the Panchayat Raj teachers had been fulfilled with Thursday's move. The Law Ministry would be forwarding the file to the Union Home Ministry which in turn would forward it to the President for his assent.
Chari said once the file gets the Presidential Assent, nearly three lakh teachers in both the Telugu states would get the benefit with retrospective effect as the Law Ministry cleared the file to such an effect.
It would mean that once the benefits of the Unified Service Rules come into effect, those would benefit the teachers retrospectively from 1998 when the original GO was brought out by the then Chief Minister of United AP N Chandrababu Naidu after a prolonged fight from the teachers’ unions.
The Panchayat Raj teachers had been agitating over the variance in service benefits and promotional avenues since long and the then TDP government relented finally in 1998.
However, it got entangled in legal tussle ever since and it finally reached the Apex court subsequently. The Apex Court which heard the petitioners at length directed the state governments to go for effective changes to the service rules which both the governments did later.
Most of the government teachers retired by 2005 and the majority comprise Panchayat Raj teachers now. The Law Ministry's Legal and Legislative wings gave the assent on Thursday.
Chari said that "he had brought to the notice of the Law Secretary that both the governments had written to the Centre to clear their proposals in this regard.
The Chief Ministers had sent the proposal for Unified Service Rules to the Centre after the Apex court which disposed off the petitions in this regard sometime back directed them to seek Presidential Assent for the same".
"The file was cleared on Thursday after we met the Secretary and we are happy that the long demand of the teachers who have been agitating over the same for years was conceded finally. We thank the Centre for responding to our demand.
Justice would be done to the teachers now with this," Chari told the media. MLCs P Ravinder, K Janardhan and former MLC Mohan Reddy and PRTU state president Sarotham Reddy, who accompanied Chari, said once the assent of the President was secured, it would eliminate injustices in the promotions, etc.
They thanked Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and the Special Representative for the interest shown in the issue.
