Chandrababu urges govt to protect Tribal rights as per GO 3

Amaravati: TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu accused the Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his Government of depriving the downtrodden people of their rights, in a statement on Friday.

He said the Government was not showing sincerity and empathy towards implementing the GO No 3 brought on January 10, 2000. This GO reserves all the posts of teachers in the schools situated in the scheduled areas in Andhra Pradesh with local Scheduled Tribe candidates only out of whom 33 percent shall be women.

Naidu, in a letter addressed to Jagan, advised the Government not to harm the interests of the Tribal people by ignoring the GO 3. It has been implemented for over two decades benefitting and empowering many tribal people. Now, the Tribal people have lost their right to teaching jobs. This loss is bound to have a retrograde effect on the development of the Tribals as a whole, he added.