Hyderabad: The Telangana government has noted that there is no officer from the Muslim community born in Telangana among directly recruited All India Service Officers allotted to the state. Though there are a couple of them, who are Mulki, they are either promotee officers or from other states.

The Centre has allocated directly recruited Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi and Ahmed Nadeem, who hail from the North India, to the Telangana. Among three other IPS officers A.K. Khan is from Rayalaseema while Tafseer Iqbal and Shahnawaz Qasim are from other states.

Syed Omar Jaleel, Mohammed Abdul Azeem, IAS and M.J. Akbar, IFS hail from Telangana and were allocated to the state under the promotee officers’ quota. Sources revealed that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was surprised when this was brought to his notice in a recent meeting.

The CM instructed officers to prepare a plan to select local brilliant minds from the minority community and train them to crack the Union Public Service Commission, so that Telangana may get directly recruited officers from the minority in general and among Muslims in particular in the coming years.

A senior officer in the minority Welfare department of the state said they were already working on the plan and will be consulting several senior retired All India Service officers, who worked particularly at the Centre to explore the possibilities for selection of minority candidates in UPSC examination.