Hyderabad: After moving the AP administration to the new capital area, secretaries and other senior officials are giving importance to court cases, Assembly committee meetings and others held at Hyderabad, attending them personally. In the past secretaries and senior officials used to send junior officers to these meets usually. Now, they are giving more importance to court cases and Assembly committee meetings, particularly if they fall on Friday.
They reach Hyderabad on Thursday night and leave for Amaravati on Monday morning. In the name of court cases and meetings, they are spending three days in Hyderabad with their families. While shifting the Secretariat departments from Hyderabad to Amaravati area, the state government has kept skeletal staff in each department to look after court cases, administrative tribunal cases and others.
The Assembly committees pointed out several times that secretaries were not attending the meetings. Recently, no government officer attended the AP Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting. When this was brought to the notice of Chief Secretary, S.P. Tucker, he rushed to attend the meeting. After the shift of the Secretariat to Amaravati region, secretaries and other officers have been visiting Hyderabad whenever possible.
