In a setback to at least eight All India Service (AIS) officers – 5 IAS and 4 IPS officials, who had been serving in Telangana, the Union government has rejected their request for allocating the Telangana cadre to them.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) rejected the request of five Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and three Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, who were allocated to the Andhra Pradesh cadre following the bifurcation of the state in 2014 but they had challenged the move and had requested that they be allocated Telangana cadre.
The decision was taken by the ministry following the recommendation by a single-member committee comprising former DoPT secretary Deepak Khandekar, which was constituted to reconsider the final allocation of AIS officers.