Prez order will need changing

As a part of scrapping the three-tier zonal system, the state government has sent draft guidelines to all departments on adjustment of employees into the proposed two-tier system.

TS Chief Secretary S.P. Singh met with special chief secretaries, principal secretaries and secretaries and discussed about the formulation of the new Presidential Order with a two-tier system.

The government circulated draft guidelines on the existing and proposed systems to fit the employees of various cadres into the two-tier system.

According to the draft proposals, lower division clerks and those ranked below them belong to the district cadre. In the new system all non-gazetted posts will be brought under district cadre.

Non-gazetted employees of multi-zone cadres will be brought into district cadre and all gazetted posts will be brought into the state cadre. The specified gazetted posts listed in the Third Schedule will be brought under the state cadre.

The state level will include all the existing posts and all gazetted categories. In Hyderabad, 14 departments listed in GSR 528 (E) will likely continue as they are.

The state government has directed all secretaries to furnish the details of employees of all categories of posts in the heads of the department offices in their respective departments. The government directed the secretaries to hold meetings with their heads of he departments and finalise the recommendations for the formulation of proposed new Presidential Order.