HYDERABAD: A meeting of the House Committee of Assembly to monitor implementation of GO 610 on Friday was marked by an acrimonious debate between members on the process set in motion to repatriate non-local employees from the State capital.

Cutting across party lines, the members are stated to have taken up the interests of their respective regions while arguing for and against the transfer of staff.

The meeting decided to recommend to the State Government to extend the deadline for voluntary disclosure of local/non-local status by the employees till February 28. The panel would request the Finance Department to immediately release Rs. 18.5 crores required to create supernumerary posts in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema. This was to facilitate the repatriation of 42 police inspectors that was recently ordered by Hyderabad Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh.

Judicial staff

The Law Secretary would be summoned to the next meeting to seek clarification whether lower courts are covered by the Six-Point Formula to decide the repatriation of judicial officers and staff. Some members pointed out that since they drew salary from the State Government, they should be treated like other staff.

Director-General of Police M.A. Basith sought two weeks to respond to a suggestion of TRS MLA, T. Harish Rao, to accommodate 52 Sub-Inspectors of police from Hyderabad in an equal number of posts notified for recruitment by police in Zones I to 4. There are 317 Circle Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors of the city who are supposed to be repatriated.

Within this period, the DGP said he would also convey his decision on the demand to shift five Circle Inspectors and a Sub-Inspector who are working in Hyderabad on deputation after the Congress returned to power.

`No' to suggestion

The Hyderabad Police Commissioner expressed helplessness to implement his own order repatriating 42 Inspectors unless supernumerary posts were created for them elsewhere in the State. He did not accept a suggestion to issue relieving orders to them immediately and take them back on deputation to overcome the problem of supernumerary posts.

The committee chairman, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, told reporters later that 40 to 45 per cent of the 4.5 lakh employees had disclosed their local/non-local status. The remaining staff could not do so for want of study certificates from their schools. The meeting was attended by J.M. Girglani who headed the one-man commission of inquiry that went into implementation of GO 610.

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