Guidelines for Allotment of All India Service officers finalised

Hyderabad: Decks have been cleared for taking up the long-delayed distribution of All India Service (AIS) officers between Telan-gana and Andhra Pradesh states.

The guidelines for distribution of AIS officers, including IAS and IPS officers, were finalised on Monday. They were referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for approval.

The Pratyush Sinha Committee, constituted by the Centre, met in New Delhi and held discussions with Telangana chief secretary Dr Rajiv Sharma and his AP counterpart I.Y.R. Krishna Rao over the issue.

It was decided that the distribution of AIS officers will be completed within a month. The guidelines will be posted on the websites of both the state governments in a week.

It was decided to give limited options to AIS officers to choose the state of their choice.

While Telugu officers will be allotted based on their nativity, officers from other states will be allotted by following roster system.

Administration in the Secretariat has been adversely affected with delay in the allotment of IAS officers and distribution of staff between both the states.  

The distribution process could not be taken up even after nearly one-and-a-half month of state’s bifurcation.
With temporary allotment now, employees and officers are confused whether they would continue in the existing places or not and are unable to focus on their work. Due to this, files were mounting in the Secretariat.

Each IAS officer has been heading three to four departments and are busy attending review meetings every day conducted by chief ministers and ministers of respective states leaving no scope to lay focus on any specific department. Consequently, pending files have been increasing day by day as IAS officers are hardly finding time to go through the files.