Babus to be stuck in district
Planned two-tier system will prevent transfer of staff across the state
The two-tier system zonal cadre system proposed by the state government confines employees to one district. In the current three-tier system, they can be transferred to four to five districts.
The state government in its draft guidelines has proposed to bring zonal cadre employees into district cadre.
After the reorganisation, each district has 30 to 40 mandals, as against 60 to 70 earlier. In the three-tier system, zonal cadre employees could be transferred to 250 to 300 mandals, that number now comes down.
Earlier, the state government had amended the MCH Act to enable the transfer of employees of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the urban development department to the districts. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had openly said the reason for increasing corruption in the GHMC was because the government was not able to transfer them to the districts, and that they had to be rotated between different GHMC circles.
Now, while GHMC employees can be transferred to the districts, zonal cadre employees will be restricted to one district.
The zonal level posts have employees in different cadres. For example in the irrigation department the superintendent engineers are zonal cadre while in the health and medical department senior accountants are in the zonal cadre.
According to TS employees’ associations, there are about 3 lakh employees of whom half are teachers and about 50,000 are in zonal cadre. A senior officer said that after the two-tier system comes into effect, zonal cadre employees have to retire in the same district.
Telangana Non-Gazetted Employees Association president Karam Ravinder Reddy said that in the districts the government would have to create new posts to accommodate zonal cadre employees in the district cadre. He said that in some districts there were no zonal cadre posts in some departments.
He welcomed the twotier system and said the association had asked the government to make all recruitment of staff at the district level, and promotions should be given with the state as a unit.