The mutual transfer of employees in the ongoing redeployment of staff on the basis of local district cadre will not guarantee them protection of seniority at least where it involved transfers in seven zones or two multi-zones of the State. There will however be no bar on continuing their seniority within the erstwhile districts which was the basis for introduction of the new zonal system as the question of overlapping of service in district-level posts will not arise.
Since the inter-zonal and multi-zonal transfer of employees necessarily involved overlap of service in posts, the government has rejected protection of seniority at a meeting of employees leaders with Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar a few days ago.
V. Mamatha, president of Telangana Gazetted Officers Association, said the Chief Secretary had agreed to protection of seniority of zonal and multi-zonal posts in cases of mutual transfer within erstwhile districts and zones. Apart from Ms. Mamatha, others who met the Chief Secretary included association secretary A. Satyanarayana and Hyderabad district president M.B. Krishna Yadav.
