The long menu card of dishes that Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) wants from the Centre after the formation of separate Telangana state has amused many political observers.
Going by the list, one wonders what would become of the remainder of Andhra Pradesh if all the wishes of TRS are fulfilled. The Seemandhra will surely become a pauper if one were agree to all the demands made by the Telangana party.
As part of the response to the Union Home Ministry's letter, seeking suggestions from the state parties on the terms of reference of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana, the TRS made a crazy demand that the Centre should sanction Rs 5 lakh crore as a compensation for the "historic injustice" meted out to the region since the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 in terms of public employment and economy.
This is very amusing because it is the Seemandhra region that is demanding compensation and the same figure of Rs 5 lakh crore is being floated by the Seemandhra lobby.
Clearly, the TRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is in a mood to provoke the Seemandhra people by raking up the issue of repatriation of non-Telangana employees from Hyderabad.
Many non-locals who were recruited in subordinate services against a quota of 20 per cent (district category), 30 per cent (non-gazetted category) and 40 (gazetted category) have to be relocated based on the definition of “local candidate” as defined in the Presidential Order 1975 and on the basis of nativity as reflected in the service registers.
The TRS stated that a quick estimate showed that 30 per cent of the government employees who were working in Telangana belong to Seemandhra.
“All of them have been illegally recruited over decades. In view of this, the government of Telangana would carefully go into the distribution of employees in each unit office of government, educational institutions and public sector,” the party said.
On the contentious Article 371(D), the TRS suggested it is agreeable that the provision should continue with a textual amendment adding the name of the new state.
On the question of public employment, the TRS wanted the Centre to consider relaxing the Rules of the All-India Services in cadre allocation, and to allow Telangana officers of the IAS, IPS and IFS working elsewhere in the country to come to Telangana, on their request, either as permanent cadre, transfer or on long deputation.
All gazetted officers, who were “wrongly recruited and promoted” in violation of various safeguards provided to Telangana employees have to be relocated to the residuary state on the basis of nativity, as reflected in the service register, it said.
