Hyderabad: The Centre will send a team of commerce officials to Hyderabad to inquire into the Telangana state government’s complaint against AP of stealing its copyright material.
AP denied the TS claims on Wednesday and termed them as “cheap tactics”. But the TS government has decided not to go back on the police case filed against AP over the issue.
Telangana principal secretary of Industries Arvind Kumar said, “We have submitted all the proof to the police about how AP submitted its data on the DIPP website by copying Telangana’s application formats. The case is under investigation. Minister K.T. Rama Rao and myself have lodged a complaint with the Union commerce ministry. They have promised to inquire into the issue. If they don’t, we will approach the Centre again next week.”
Commerce officials will crosscheck whether both governments are adopting business-friendly practices at the ground level as is being claimed or have just brought the reforms on paper for the sake of better EoDB rankings, as both states have climbed to the top quickly.
In the latest real-time rankings uploaded by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, TS has secured second rank with 53.39 per cent and AP third with 51.76 per cent; Uttarakhand topped with 53.39 per cent.
The portal tracks the real-time implementation of the 340 action plans, which will be considered for the 2016 rankings. The process of ranking states on the basis of EoDB started in 2015. The final rankings for 2016 are expected by July-end.
Last month, TS was ranked second and AP 19th, but within a month, AP had climbed to third.
“In real-time tracking, TS got second rank in June, while AP got 19th. But within a month, AP climbed to 3rd rank, while we continue to remain at 2nd. There are doubts over this and this needs to be inquired,” Mr Kumar said.
