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HYDERABAD: The State Government gave a commitment in the Assembly on Wednesday that all non-locals from Hyderabad and other zones in the State would be repatriated by June 30, 2007, even as members of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi staged a walkout demanding adoption of a resolution favouring separate Telangana.

During the two-day-long debate on GO 610, Rural Development Minister D. Srinivas said all Government departments had been asked to collect details about each employee in a prescribed form by January 31, 2007. The repatriation by June-end appeared possible since non-locals now numbered only 58,000 as unofficially assessed. Referring to criticism that some heads of departments at the Secretariat were not furnishing data, Mr. Srinivas appealed to the officers to extend cooperation in making the exercise a success and emulate the Police and School Education departments which had completed the job. He warned officers refusing to cooperate of punishment.

TRS demand rejected

Mr. Srinivas said no Chief Minister had stated as emphatically as Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy that Hyderabad was not a free zone. TRS members T. Harish Rao and N. Narsimha Reddy wanted a resolution to be adopted to this effect. The Minister rejected the demand on the ground that the House was debating GO 610 and not the Statehood issue. The TRS members walked out in protest expressing lack of faith in the Government.

Home Minister K. Jana Reddy said 60 out of 3,014 constables and 14 out of 99 sub-inspectors in Hyderabad were repatriated on being found to be non-locals.

The remaining would be repatriated in three months as fresh recruitment was on.

Meanwhile, Speaker K. R. Suresh Reddy constituted a committee of legislators with N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Congress MLA, as chairman to monitor implementation of GO 610 for repatriation of non-locals from the Telangana region.

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