In a major setback to IAS officers IAS officers Ronald Rose and Amrapali Kata who are continuing in Telangana after bifurcation of the state, though there services were allocated to Andhra Pradesh, Center asked them to report them in AP in a week.
The Government of India has rejected their requests to change their cadre to Telangana state and directed Telangana Chief Secretary to relieve them with immediate effect. Further, it directed them to report in Andhra Pradesh by October 16.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions sent letters to the IAS officers concerned along with copies to the Chief Secretaries of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Presently, Amrapali is GHMC Commissioner and Ronald Rose is energy secretary.
The Ministry cited the recommendation of a single-member committee formed for reconsideration of final allocation of AIS officers of erstwhile State/cadre of Andhra Pradesh between successor States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
“The recommendation of the committee rejecting Ronald Rose’s claim of allocating the Telangana cadre to him has been accepted by the Competent Authority in this Department,” the letter read.
The Ministry is likely to issue similar instructions with regard to around 11 other IAS and IPS officers working in Telangana including IAS officers A Vani Prasad (1995 batch), Vakati Karuna (2004), and M Prashanti (2009), along with IPS officers Anjani Kumar (1990), Abhilasha Bisht (1994) and Cyberabad Police Commissioner Abhishek Mohanty (2011) among others.
This development marks the conclusion of a lengthy reconsideration process for IAS cadre allocations in the two states, as per the court’s directive, ensuring compliance with established policy guidelines.
The decision was taken based on the recommendations of the Deepak Khandekar committee, which was tasked with reviewing requests from AIS (All India Services) officers, to swap cadres during the allocation of AIS officers after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
The committee found that these requests to swap cadres was beyond the scope of the established principles, which had already been upheld by the High Court.