Telangana High Court on Monday passed an order staying Government Order (GO) 121 issued by State government’s Finance department on July 23 over redeployment of Village Revenue Officers (VROs).
A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Chada Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy passed this direction after hearing a writ petition filed by Telangana VROs Association represented by its president G. Satish and others challenging the GO. Earlier, the Telangana government had abolished the posts of 5,138 VROs through the Telangana Abolition of the posts of VROs Act-2020.
The Act stated that persons working in the posts of VROs should be transferred and absorbed in any department as per administrative exigency. On July 23, the government released GO 121 redeploying all the 5,138 VROs. Out of them, 56 VROs chose not to join the other departments to which they were transferred.
