Telangana Government Slams Reports of Influx of AP-Native Employees

Hyderabad: The state government has dismissed reports of allowing influx of Andhra Pradesh-native employees into Telangana.

Official sources said that the division of employees between AP and TG was completed in the first two years after bifurcation in 2014. Later several TG and AP employees applied for mutual transfers.

They said that the BRS and YSRCP governments had sought applications from employees in their respective states keen on relocating mutually.

Following this, in September 2021, the Telangana government received applications from 1,369 TG employees who opted to permanently move to AP, while AP government received 1,808 applications from AP employees willing to relocate permanently to Telangana on grounds of medical needs, employed couples, children's education and own houses.

However, no decision was taken by either government and the applications remain pending.

Source said that the then AP chief secretary Sameer Sharma had written a letter to his TG counterpart Somesh Kumar on September 23, 2022,

urging the TG government to consider the mutual transfer requests of employees on compassionate grounds. Subsequently, there was regular correspondence between the two states but nothing materialised.

With the bifurcation of AP having completed 10 years on June 2 and Hyderabad ceasing to be the joint capital, the issue of mutual transfers is back in focus. However, no decision has been taken on allowing such transfers, sources added.

The Telangana government has cautioned against misleading claims regarding the influx of AP employees into Telangana in a section of the media.