less than a week post the official formation of the two states the common secretariat premises in the city is a picture of utter chaos and disorder courtesy venkat rao poor planning and execution while a horde of justswornin ministers are left grappling with severe space crunch and running helterskelter to find themselves suitable office space several senior bureaucrats have found themselves stranded with no official staffers at their disposal such is their plight that many of them have been forced to use their personal employees for the time being and this is true of both states telangana and andhra pradesh which have been allotted four blocks each in the sprawling premises while abc and d have gone the tstates way h north and southjkl have been earmarked for its twin the two have also been gifted with separate entrance gates to avoid any altercation but while it all sounds sorted on paper the reality is clearly far removed in fact recent visitors to the d block of the secretariat which is supposed to be the seat of power of the telangana government describe it as a godown strewn with gunny bags filled with files and office equipment even the toilets here they say have not been spared the madness and are found being used as dumping yards for broken furniture and waste material not surprising then that t ministers expected to operate out of this block are still busy tackling logistical issues as opposed to their ministerial duties though several ministers have already taken charge many do not have private secretaries and personal assistants they are entirely depending on their personal staff said a senior officer in the transport department ministers p mahender reddy and jogu ramanna are some among them and their lack of staff support according to observers is rooted in the centres failure to sanction a sufficient number of employees to telangana while the state requires over 45000 staffers it has been allotted just 9893 so far predictably files that were expected to have reached secretariat officials housed in blocks a and b for clearance by now are still stuck in transit leaving these babus with nothing to do but kill time though the c block in comparison is more functional considering it contains the official chambers of the cm and his chief secretary there still are some minor issues left to be resolved we are yet to get our service registers we have not been able to sign our attendance because of that lamented a lift t operator the story in the corridors of the andhra pradesh blocks isnt any different with 3100 employees expected to fit l themselves into just four blocks a good part of which is already occupied by other establishments officials here have been left to play musical chairs many still do not have a permanent seat or suitable staffers principal secretary ap of finance ajay kallam for instance has been given a peon from telangana due to lack of