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HYDERABAD: Shattering the hopes of children of Seemandhra settlers in Telangana, the Andhra Pradesh government has made it clear that it would follow the Presidential Order in implementing local and non-local reservations while filling teacher posts in the State.

“We will follow existing norms and the Presidential Order with regard to rule of reservations while recruiting teachers,” HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao told mediapersons here on Wednesday.

According to him, as per the Presidential Order, 80 per cent vacancies in each zone will be filled by local candidates who come under that respective zone whereas 20 per cent posts will be filled by non-local candidates, who belong to other zones in Andhra Pradesh.

Srinivasa Rao’s statement contradicts his earlier announcement that the government would come to the rescue of children of Andhra people living in Telangana, who are not considered by the Telangana government as “locals” even though they are locals to the new State as per the Presidential Order, while implementing the fee reimbursement scheme and filling of various government posts.

In fact, the AP government had more or less disclosed its intention of leaving those Seemandhra students, who are treated as locals of Telangana as per the Presidential Order, in lurch a few days ago.

On October 18, the government while releasing guidelines for the implementation of fee reimbursement scheme stated that post-matric scholarships would be sanctioned to the students belonging to Telangana, who are “local” to Andhra Pradesh and are studying in the institutions, located in AP.

It also made it clear that the same will be sanctioned to the students belonging to AP who are “local” to Andhra Pradesh and are studying in the institutions located in Telangana.

At the same time the State government had not mentioned those Andhra students, who are treated as locals of Telangana as per the Presidential Order, in that GO.

Meanwhile, Srinivasa Rao said the State government is issuing a notification for filling 10,300 teacher posts in the government, including 1,200 in the municipal department.