Centre considers together with unlisted establishments in Schedule X; Telangana raises eye brows

The Central Government is reportedly considering to incorporate the establishments not included anyplace within the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (APR) Act 2014 into the Schedule X establishments.

The Ministry of Home Affairs referred to the division of property and liabilities of establishments not talked about anyplace within the APR Act and requested the Telangana Government to furnish views/feedback . There are 12 establishments together with the Serifed (Federation of Sericulture and Silkweavers’ Cooperative Societies and Construction Workers’ Welfare Board) and others which didn’t discover a point out within the Act and the 2 States have been at loggerheads over the division of those establishments since bifurcation.

The Union Home Ministry, in a current communication to the Telangana Government, stated that “the Central Government might notify the establishments present on the appointed day within the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana that haven’t been included within the Tenth Schedule on the idea of energy accorded by the supply of sub part (2) of part 75 of the Act”.

Coming at a time when the stalemate over the bifurcation of establishments talked about within the Schedule IX and X of the Act is but to be resolved, the communication didn’t go down nicely with Telangana which is agency on its opposition to bifurcation of the establishments not talked about within the Act. Senior officers are claiming that the letter follows stress exerted by the Andhra Pradesh Government, an ally of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government on the Centre, to make sure division of those establishments between the 2 Telugu States.

“They (the AP Government) has been citing part 75, however it’s now not legitimate,” a senior official stated. The provision sub part (2) of part 75 of the APR Act didn’t carry weight because it clearly stated that the Centre may intervene within the matter inside one yr of the appointed day June 2, 2014. “The Central Government might, at any time inside one yr from the appointed day, by notification within the Official Gazette, specify within the Tenth Schedule referred to in sub-section (1) some other establishment present on the appointed day within the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and, on the problem of such notification, such Schedule shall be deemed to be amended by the inclusion of the stated establishment therein”, the Act stated.

Senior officers stated that Centre has intervened up to now giving instructions regarding bifurcation of establishments. But that was on May 7, 2015 earlier than the lapse of 1 yr timeline as talked about within the Act. The State was not ready to simply accept such proposal and a call on the problem could be taken in session with Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.