Freeze on SI recruitment in city

State government bows to pressure from leaders in Telangana


WHOSE LOSS?: An APSRTC bus that was damaged by OU students in Hyderabad on Monday. HYDERABAD: Bowing to pressure from Telangana leaders, the government on Monday put on hold recruitment of sub-inspectors of police for Hyderabad city till the demand for declaration of the State capital as part of Zone VI was settled.
“There is no proposal to fill vacancies of SIs of Hyderabad city till orders from Central government on deletion of clause 14 (f) were received,” the police department said in a press release after Telangana leaders belonging to the Congress and all Opposition parties threatened to disrupt the recruitment process.
The department, however, clarified that the 402 vacancies announced in the units covered under the Zone VI would be filled. The State Assembly had adopted a resolution unanimously seeking amendment to the Presidential Order of 1975 in which Hyderabad was declared as a free zone in police recruitment. The Supreme Court had upheld the free zone clause which led to uproar in Telangana where leaders demanded inclusion of Hyderabad in Zone VI which covers Telangana districts. The decision to freeze the recruitment in Hyderabad was taken at a meeting convened urgently by Chief Minister K. Rosaiah with Home Minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy and Director General of Police K. Aravinda Rao in the evening.
Earlier, Osmania University students tried to gatecrash into the DGP's office here this afternoon to register their protest against the recruitment but were arrested. There was unrest in the university campus too where they took out a rally and damaged two buses of the APSRTC.
All-party meet
The Telugu Desam Telangana Forum had convened an all-party meeting to discuss the issue where the parties expressed concern over the delay in the Presidential assent to the Assembly resolution. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Congress, TDP, TRS and Praja Rajyam while the CPI (M) and CPI extended support to the cause.
An all-party delegation led by Nagam Janardhan Reddy (TDP) and R. Damodar Reddy (Congress) later called on the DGP and asked him to stop the recruitment.