Six new zones of govt employment, education mooted

Panel discusses amendments needed to be made to the Presidential Order; to meet again on Oct 21 
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 HYDERABAD: The state government is likely to create six new zones in the state, each comprising five districts. The Committee of Ministers and Officials, constituted recently for studying the continuation of zonal system in employment and education, held its first meeting here on Friday. The meeting discussed the amendments to be made to the Presidential Order for creation of new zones in the state. The committee also discussed the structure of state, mutli-zonal, zonal and district cadre posts.

“We conducted a preliminary meeting on Friday. We will meet again on October 21 for further discussions,” deputy chief minister (education) K Srihari said, adding, “We will also discuss the matter with the employee and teachers’ associations and take their views too.”  

The committee sought information from various departments on which post should come under which cadre and districts to be clubbed for formation of new zones. It will submit recommendations to chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Once KCR accepts recommendations, it will be sent to the President for his nod for amending Article 371 (D) of Constitution. Till then, sources said, district posts would be filled without hitch.

Initially, government had decided to scrap zonal system and reduce cadres into district and state-level posts. However, KCR realised later that once the zonal or multi-zonal posts were converted into state-cadre posts, there would be no local reservation. This will help the unemployed youth from any state in country to apply for state-level posts. “The problem is that most of the posts are likely to be grabbed by AP youths again. This will defeat the purpose of bifurcation of united AP. That is why Rao decided to continue zonal system and retain four cadres in employment,” according to employee unions.

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