New Delhi: In a significant boost to pro-Telangana activists, President Pratibha Patil on Friday gave her approval for the deletion of Clause 14 (f) of the 1975 Presidential Order, which had made Hyderabad a free zone for employment.
Telangana leaders had been demanding that Hyderabad should not be a free zone where candidates from all over the state can compete for recruitment for government posts, largely in the police force. They wanted deletion of the clause so that candidates from Telangana get preference.
"The Ministry of Home Affairs today issued a notification that the President today gave her approval for deleting the sub-paragraph (f) of Clause 14 of the Andhra Pradesh Public Employment (organisation of local cadres and regulation of direct recruitment) order 1975. Thus the A P Public Employment Order, 1975 stands amended," an state government release said.
This effectively means the Andhra Pradesh capital ceases to be a free zone for employment, and would become a part of other Telangana districts.
The Hyderabad free zone issue has long been contentious, and it was on this issue that TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao had staged his famous fast-unto-death in 2009. The TRS staged agitations, which led to the Assembly passing an unanimous resolution in March 2010, urging the Centre to obtain the approval of the President for deletion of 14 (f).
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had taken up the matter with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram as well as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The issue was taken up by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, which decided to recommend to the President that deletion of 14 (f) be approved.
The deletion of 14 (f) had acquired a sense of urgency as Telangana student groups and parties had demanded postponement of the police sub-inspector recruitment test scheduled for August 13 and 14. Against this backdrop, the CM was keen to get the Clause 14 (f) deleted, ahead of the test, sources said.
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