HYDERABAD: The State government is actively considering setting up the Telangana Administrative Service (TAS), Finance Minister T Harish Rao said in reply to a question by Puranam Satish Kumar in the Legislative Council on Saturday. He said the government has constituted a committee which will look into constituting the TAS. The government will decide on creating the TAS once the committee submits its report.
While four-five States already have State Administrative Services, the Telangana government has been toying with the idea for over three years now, Harish said. The TAS would be set up through a legislation, he added. The fundamental idea of the TAS is to create a state cadre of officers.
TAS will help overcome lack of IAS officers
The state cadre of officers would be on the lines of the All India Service officers with a strength of 200, mostly Group-1 officers. This will help the State to overcome any shortage of IAS officers and also fill all the additional district collector and municipal commissioner posts. There is a shortfall of 34 IPS officers and around 50 IAS officers in the State.
There are two proposals for drawing officers to the TAS — first, to take only Revenue employees into TAS, and second, to give opportunity to all Group-1 officers of all key departments. But, the Revenue employees may oppose this.
