Chandrababu Naidu urges Centre to look into nativity status issues in AP

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday urged the Centre to take steps to see that children of employees and others shifting from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh in the wake of bifurcation do not face problems with regard to their 'nativity status' in education or employment.

"In view of bifurcation, it is incumbent on the part of Government of Andhra Pradesh to protect the interests of the people going to be shifted to the residuary state in the field of education and employment.”

"This also has a bearing for the employees who are to shift to the new capital city and the local candidate status of their children," Naidu said in letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Naidu requested that the Centre make appropriate changes in a presidential order on the issue. "So the government is seeking modification of the presidential order in interpreting the local candidate as referred in the above orders," the letter said.

Provision of local status to children of those shifting to Andhra Pradesh is an important milestone in the shifting of the state administration from its common capital of Hyderabad. He also pointed out about the suicide attempt made by a man in West Godavari district after his daughter was denied local status in teachers' recruitment for having lived in Hyderabad for long.