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‘GO 610 implementation will not harm interests of non-locals’

Staff Reporter

KADAPA: Demand forimplementation of GO 610 is justified and will not harm interests of other regions, Rayalaseema Karmika Karshaka Samithi president Ch. Chandrasekhar Reddy asserted on Friday.

There was no need to pose hurdles to the GO implementation by protesting in Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions, he maintained at a press conference here.

GO 610 was a fallout of the six-point formula for whose implementation agitations were staged in Rayalaseema for 15 years since 1984, he said.

Differences on regional lines would not have arisen had the six-point formula, conceived in 1975, implemented properly, he contended.

Referring to Telangana agitation leaders’ claims that 80 per cent of Grade IV posts, 70 per cent in four gazetted posts and 60 per cent in gazetted posts were reserved for Telangana, he said the remaining quota of 20, 30 and 40 per cent respectively were open to all, and not reserved to non-locals.

Mr. Chandrasekhar Reddy also justified the Telangana leaders’ demand for reserving 42 per cent of posts, in proportion to the population, in State Secretariat, directorates and State-level offices for the region.

There was no need to oppose the demand, as Rayalaseema would get 18 per cent posts and coastal Andhra 40 per cent, he said.

Ironically, coastal Andhrites presently held 90 per cent of posts in Secretariat, directorates and State-level offices, he said.

He favoured extension of GO 610 to public sector units too.

Advising Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders to exercise restraint, he condemned attacks on Rayalaseema Hakkula Aikya Vedika leader T.G. Venkatesh’s factory and burning of effigies of TRS president K. Chandrasekhara Rao in Rayalaseema. People of Rayalaseema should express solidarity with their counterparts of Telangana, as both were backward regions, he said.

Telangana leaders should realise that Rayalaseema was equally backward as also Srikakulam and Vizianagaram in north coastal Andhra.

He urged NGOs of Rayalaseema to support implementation of GO 610.

The RKKS leader found fault with Congress MPs for moving the court against Government’s move to implement GO 610.

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