Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu also pitched in to support the efforts of chief minister Chandrababu Naidu to get the presidential order that determines the local status of students in Andhra and Telangana states amended. Venkaiah also urged union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of Law & Justice Sadananda Gowda to act immediately to resolve the issue of ‘local status’ of the children of people, who are now living in Telangana and want to relocate to Andhra Pradesh.

Venkaiah held extensive discussions with senior officials of the Union Home and Law & Justice departments in New Delhi on the issue of ‘local status’. The discussions focused on making necessary amendments to the Presidential Orders issued in 1974 and 1975 in respect of admissions into educational institutions and employment based on ‘local status’ in the erstwhile united AP.

A statement issued by the Union Urban Development Ministry said,”The provisions of the two Presidential Orders which are in force along with the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act,2014, were examined at length in the meeting. Venkaiah urged the two Ministries to take swift action for suitably amending the existing Presidential Orders.”

Naidu, during the discussion also spoke to the Chief Secretary of AP, IYR Krishna Rao, for clarity on related issues.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, in a letter written union home minister Rajanath Singh two days back, proposed an inclusion of para in the existing order inorder to overcome the impediment. Andhra Pradesh government proposes to grant local status to the children of the people who want to locate to Andhra Pradesh from Telangana within three year from the appointed date ie July 2, 2014.