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The Andhra Pradesh Primary Teachers’ Association (APPTA) has appealed to the State authorities to support the law and work rights of SC and ST teachers during the ongoing territory bifurcation, cadre allocation, rationalisation and surplus accommodation successful the School Education Department.
In a practice submitted to Human Resources Development Minister Nara Lokesh connected Thursday (May 21, 2026), the association’s State president K. Prakash Rao and wide caput M.G. Mahdi urged the authorities to guarantee that preservation roster points, consequential seniority and section cadre rights were not affected during the reorganisation.
They cited Article 16(4A) of the Constitution, which provides for preservation successful promotions with consequential seniority for SC/ST employees, on with Articles 14 and 335, which warrant equality and extortion of SC/ST claims successful nationalist services. The roster strategy nether G.O. Ms. No. 5 of 2003 and the consequential seniority provisions nether G.O. Ms. No. 2 of 2004 indispensable beryllium strictly followed during territory allocation and rationalisation, they said.
The relation leaders expressed interest that, successful immoderate cases, seniority lists were being prepared solely connected the ground of merit and marks, ignoring the ‘Merit-cum-Roster’ rule adopted during recruitment. Such a determination could propulsion SC/ST teachers to the bottommost of seniority lists, disturb preservation roster points and unit teachers to determination distant from their autochthonal districts, they said.
Pointing that Sections 77 and 78 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, support employees’ work conditions and section status, they besides referred to G.O. Ms. No. 31, issued by the Finance Department successful 2022, which says provisional allocation of employees during territory restructuring should not impact seniority, promotions and section cadre status.
They sought the government’s contiguous involution to guarantee that seniority lists were prepared strictly according to the archetypal Merit-cum-Roster principle, and that nary SC/ST teacher was disadvantaged by territory bifurcation oregon surplus adjustment. They besides asked it to see humanitarian grounds specified arsenic superior aesculapian conditions and household responsibilities portion allocating teachers.
The APPTA warned that ignoring preservation and consequential seniority norms could pb to avoidable litigation and administrative complications.
