Telangana Employees Association

You might not need to add our committee to the list of previous committees on Telangana, this committee is the last and final committee, this is said by the SKC to the Telangana Employees Association. The 23 member delegation from the association led by the association leaders M/s. Vitthal, Sridhar Deshpande, Padmachari, Durgabai and Pavankumar Goud met with the SKC on Wednesday at the lakeview guesthouse. The delegation presented their views on the injustices done to Telangana on the employment related issues through a power point presentation. The delegation told SKC that Telangana people have lost faith in the committees therefore; some associations having lost faith on the committees have announced their rejection and boycotting of this committee. After the presentation the committee member secretary Mr. Duggal had responded by saying this SKC will be the last committee on Telangana. Later The President of Telangana Employees Association Mr. Vitthal had briefed the media on their presentation.

The SKC questioned the delegation, why Telangana people are not getting ranks in the examinations including the Group 1. There are injustices done in every aspect life for Telangana people and that including the employment, the TEA replied. Telangana students couldn’t compete with Seemandhra students as the people of Telangana are economically weak and educational facilities and opportunities are far less therefore, the students are unable to get expected ranks in competitive exams. Even if some of Telanganaites go for interviews Seemandhraites are discriminating them by giving the opportunities to their own people and neglecting Telanganaites. One can understand the situation if he knows the status of state govt. employees Vs opportunities given to Telangana people. The details of the presentation are as follows:

  • Total State Govt. Employees : 12,89,635
  • Employees working against the norms in Telangana: 2,50,000
  • Total employees in Hyderabad : 1,10,724
  • Out of the above Telangana employees: 11,000
  • Total Gazetted Officers in the state : 57,899
  • Telangana employees out of the above are : 6,950
  • Total Non Gazetted employees / Officers in Telangana : 4,98,359
  • Against the norms working from the above in Telangana are : 1,99,343
  • Total Non Gazetted employees / Officers in Seemandhra : 6,80,522
  • Telanganaites working against the norms working from the above in Seemandhra are : LESS THAN 1%
  • From the total IAS officers working in the state, Seemandhras are 52, and Telanganaites are only 5. The same is for IPS officers; there are 31 IPS officers from Seemandhra and only 7 from Telangana.
  • From the state cadre there are 78 IAS from Seemandhra and only 9 from Telangana. There are 45 IPS from Seemandhra and only seven are from Telangana.
  • In the State Secretariat there are total 508 Section Officers and Telanganaites are only 101.
  • There is no Additional Secretary from Telangana from the total of 13 and all from Seemandhra.
  • Deputy Secretaries: 43 are from Seemandhra and 13 from Telangana.
  • Assistant Secretaries: 150 from Seemandhra and 38 from Telangana.

Since the bureaucracy is full of Non Telangana employees the region had subjected to utter discrimination and no issues related to the injustices ever solved, plenty of cases are pending in the courts and with the employees’ tribunals, the delegation informed the SKC.

Do you accept the ‘Safeguards’: The SKC had asked the delegation, are they ready to accept any ‘constitutional Safeguards’ in the employment for Telanganaites? We don’t need any safeguard we just need our separate state Telangana the delegation responded. Do you believe if Telangana State is formed the people will get employment? The SKC questioned. When the state comes in to existence the discrimination will be over and we will develop the state hence paving ways to create new jobs and provide employment to the youth the Telangana Employees Association replied.

Excerpts taken from the local press as well.

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