Naidu Urges Nativity For Seemandhra Migrants To AP

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu today urged the Centre to make suitable amendments to the Presidential Order to consider the extension of the benefit of local status to the children of Andhra Pradesh government employees and others who do not fulfill the criteria laid down and become non-locals by the existing definition in the Presidential orders, and who want to shift from the common capital of Hyderabad to Amaravathi, the new capital of AP.

Locals will have benefits in both education and employment.

In a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Chandrababu Naidu stated that the bifurcation of the then united Andhra Pradesh had created an unexpected dimension for these people of Seemandhra origin, who will now have to, or may want to, move to the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh from Telangana.

The Presidential Order offers local status on the basis of a minimum of four years of study or residence in a particular area. The children in the families who shift to AP now will not have the qualification of four years as required from the date of shifting.

In view of the bifurcation, it was the responsibility of the AP government to protect the interests of people of Seemandhra origin shifting to the residuary State, in the fields of education and employment, Naidu said.

The Chief Minister said that suitable amendments should be made for candidates who migrate to any part of Andhra Pradesh from Telangana after the bifurcation within a period of three years from the date of bifurcation of the State, such that they are assumed to have local status of the place where they choose to reside on par with others who have local status of that area as per guidelines.