Suspense hangs over whether the Department of Personnel and Training will take a call on the joint letter written by Chief Secretaries of both the States to issue orders to serve to the IAS officers immediately or wait till the approval of the final allocation list of officers by the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, Pratyush Sinha Committee is meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao and his Telangana counterpart Rajiv Sharma, as members will attend the meeting to finalise the allocation list of AIS officers.
The committee, which uploaded the provisional allocation list of IAS, IPS and IFS officers with some changes on October 10 following objections to its earlier list, gave time till October 25 for the AIS officers to submit their objections if any.
Both the Chief Secretaries, it is learnt, will reiterate their request to the DoPT to issue orders to serve to all those IAS officers who had not raised objections over their allotment to work in the successor States. About 30 IAS officers who were unhappy with their State cadre allocation should not be shifted for now, they suggested.
However, sources added that if the DoPT preferred to wait for Prime Minister’s approval of the final allocation rather than issuing orders to serve, then the process is bound to take more time impacting the administration in both the States. At present only 44 IAS officers of united AP cadre were allotted to Telangana and the rest are in Andhra Pradesh.
