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The Telangana Government departments person expedited steps to relocate their offices functioning from backstage oregon rented premises earlier the January 31, 2026 deadline acceptable by the Government adjacent arsenic sizeable bureau abstraction disposable with the Schedule IX and X institutions remains unused owing to the unresolved disputes betwixt 2 Telugu States — Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The departments are near with 18 much days to displacement to Government premises.
According to elder officials, implicit 60 offices wrong the Hyderabad limits are functioning from different premises and astir of them tin beryllium adjusted into the abstraction disposable successful Government buildings earlier the month-end. “We are assured that a bulk of these offices volition beryllium shifted earlier the deadline,” a elder authoritative said.
There are offices similar that of Station House Offices of Excise section and the Sub-Registrar Offices successful the districts which proceed to relation from rented premises arsenic imperishable buildings to accommodate them person not been constructed yet and Same is the lawsuit with institutions similar Anganwadi centres, Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) sub-centres located successful villages owing to unavailability of Government infrastructure successful the respective places.
Nearly ₹300 crore spent connected rents
Sources said the Government spent ₹198.92 crore successful 2024-25 and ₹299.95 crore successful 2023-24 towards outgo of rents of antithetic Government offices crossed the State. Besides this, rent to the tune of ₹450 crore is being remitted to the offices successful the duplicate cities too, but a large chunk of this is “book adjustment” — determination is nary wealth transaction since tenant and proprietor are State Government departments, but rent is mentioned successful books.
“Several offices are accommodated successful the premises owned by quasi-governmental organisations and nationalist assemblage undertakings (PSU). Payment of rent successful these cases is fundamentally done publication adjustment,” a elder authoritative told The Hindu. The authoritative said that outgo of rent, particularly successful respect of the PSUs does not travel into the Government accounts.
Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, successful a circular issued to the departments recently, requested the Heads of Departments and Heads of Institutions to instrumentality possession of buildings oregon premises vacated by neighbouring Andhra Pradesh truthful that the offices functioning from different premises could beryllium shifted there.
The Special Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and elder officials person been directed to get the contiguous presumption of taking possession of these buildings and study to the Chief Secretary’s bureau ‘urgently’. Officials said the Andhra Pradesh Government had not yet vacated the bureau buildings allotted to it arsenic portion of State Reorganisation erstwhile Hyderabad was the communal superior for 10 years. Premises similar the Lake View Guest House and the Hermitage Buildings are yet to beryllium taken implicit afloat by the Telangana Government and they are either nether fastener and cardinal oregon with skeletal staff.
