Even before the AP Human Rights Commission had opened its office in Kurnool, the designated judicial capital of the state, the AP Lok Ayuktha had shifted its headquarters to this town.
AP Lok Ayuktha, Justice P Lakshman Reddy inaugurated the temporary office in the state guest house in the town on Saturday.
The Lok Ayuktha and the Upa Lok Ayuktha have been functioning from Hyderabad even after bifurcation of the state on June 2, 2014.
The state government had issued orders early this month, identifying Kurnool as headquarters for Lok Ayuktha and the Human Rights Commission.
Accordingly, the Lok Ayuktha moved its headquarters from Hyderabad to Kurnool, with temporary office in the state guest house.
The district administration is on the lookout for suitable premises to house both the Lok Ayuktha and the Human Rights Commission in the town.
The town had hosted the state capital in 1953, when the state was bifurcated from earlier Madras State.
The state government had decided to shift all the legal and judicial establishments to Kurnool to make it a judicial capital, as decided early in 2020 by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government.