Appointment of tax officers: VAT-era officers re-designated to corresponding GST titles, with pay scales unchanged. Section 3 appointments re-designate officers functioning under the Telangana Value Added Tax Act, 2005 into corresponding officers under the Telangana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 by listing mapped VAT-era titles to new GST-era designations; the notification preserves existing pay scales and states the effective commencement date for the re-designations.