After passing a Government Order to help implement a 20-year-old order meant to reserve jobs for locals in the Telangana area of the state, the state Government has run into trouble with Telangana-based NGOs. The GO 399 authorises Government departments to identify non-locals beyond the 20-per cent posts mark and repatriate them to districts they are from.

But TNGOs—a forum of Telangana NGOs—has protested the order saying that it is detrimental to the locals as the previous GO 610 while reserving 80 per cent posts for them had kept the rest open for both the non-locals and locals. D Sudhakar, president of TNGOs, said the NGOs would launch an agitation if the Government went ahead with implementing GO 399.

However, D Srinavas, chairman of the Sub-Committee on the implementation of GO 610, said the new order O would simplify repatriation and was passed to pave way for the implementation of GO 610. He said under the latest GO staff repatriation could be expedited as it exempted many formalities for the purpose.

Sudhakar, on the other hand, alleged that the order was passed to make sure that some non-local Government officials stayed back in the Telangana region. The organisation would undertake a survey to see how many non-locals will benefit from the order.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy recently announced that the GO 610 would be implemented by June 30. The order has been in waiting since 1985. Recently, seven Congress MLAs (all from the coastal region of the state) resigned from a House committee over the issue, alleging “insults” by MLAs from Telangana.

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