A.P. power engineers welcome dismissal of plea by TS utilities
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The APSEB Executive Engineers’ Association (AEEA) welcomed the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the petition filed by Telangana power utilities in opposition to D.M. Dharmadhikari Committee’s concluding report on the allocation of electrical energy staff between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana within the aftermath of the State bifurcation.
AEEA president B. Vamsi Srinivas and normal secretary N. Lakshmana Rao said in a press launch that the apex court docket discovered no benefit within the objections raised by the Telangana utilities to the one-man (Dharmadhikari) committee’s concluding report dated June 20, 2020 and that it was compulsory for utilities of each the States and all others involved to hold out and implement the instructions of the panel.
Distribution of personnel
The apex court docket noticed that the Dharmadhikari Committee was solely entrusted the duty of distribution of personnel between the 2 States.
As far because the claims relating to salaries and allowances raised by way of miscellaneous purposes had been involved, the workers had been free to get them adjudicated by an acceptable discussion board.
The Supreme Court additionally famous that power utilities of Telangana had unilaterally relieved 1,157 staff, directing them to affix the respective power utilities of Andhra Pradesh.
A quantity of staff had filed writ petitions within the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, difficult the choice of power utilities of Telangana.
At the identical time, 242 staff, who had been working within the A.P. power utilities obtained themselves relieved and joined the Telangana utilities.
Principle of nativity
The apex court docket, in its judgment, stated that the power utilities of Telangana had been motivated by precept of nativity, i.e. staff whose service information talked about them as residents of any half of the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh had been relieved.
Those belonging to the territory of the newly fashioned Telangana had been permitted to affix the utilities in that State by exercising self-option, which was challenged within the High Court.
As the dispute turned intractable and the matter reached the Supreme Court, the latter had constituted the Dharmadhikari Committee.
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