Senior IAS officer Somesh Kumar reported to the Andhra Pradesh cadre on Thursday, January 12 following a directive from the Union authorities’s Division of Personnel and Coaching. The DoPT directed Somesh Kumar, former Chief Secretary of Telangana, to report back to the Andhra Pradesh cadre by January 12 in step with the decision of the Excessive Court docket that struck down an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) letting him proceed in Telangana cadre post-bifurcation in 2014.

Somesh Kumar arrived in Vijayawada on Thursday and met Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary KS Jawahar Reddy on the latter’s camp workplace together with his becoming a member of report. “I’ve complied with the order of the Authorities of India and reported to the AP authorities. As an officer, I’ve to take up any publish given by the federal government and I’ll observe that,” Somesh Kumar later advised reporters.

Requested if he was supplied an advisor’s publish by the Telangana authorities, the IAS officer mentioned he has not taken any choice on that. “No matter comes within the stride, I’m going to take it. First, I’ll be a part of right here after which go in keeping with the scenario,” he added. Later, Somesh Kumar additionally known as on Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

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Upon the bifurcation of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, the officer was allotted to the Andhra Pradesh cadre however he challenged it within the CAT, on which the Hyderabad Bench of CAT dominated in his favour in March 2016. Based mostly on the CAT order, he continued within the Telangana cadre and held numerous necessary posts within the authorities and went on to turn into the state Chief Secretary in 2020. The Telangana Excessive Court docket, nevertheless, on January 10 struck down the CAT order, calling it “unsustainable in regulation and on information”. Somesh Kumar has service left until December 31, 2023.