Telangana can register land for National Investment and Manufacturing Zone
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday made it clear that the Telangana state government was entitled to go ahead with the purchase and registration of lands under GO 123 for the proposed National Investment and Manufacturing Zone at Medak.
The court, however, asked the state government to ensure that it did not dispossess either land owners or the affected persons till it filed a compliance report of having fulfilled all the conditions as per the assurance given by the advocate general of Telangana on August 9 before the High Court.
A division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice U. Durga Prasad Rao was dealing with an appeal by the state government challenging a stay on GO Ms No 123.
The Bench permitted the government to go ahead with purchasing land and registrations after perusing GO Ms No 191 issued on Monday amending the GO Ms No 190 issued on Sept 10, 2016.
The GO No 190 was issued for providing compensation to agriculture labourers, artisans and more particularly, landless people from SCs, STs and BCs working as labourers.
State Industrial Policy ensures 80 per cent jobs to locals, HC told
The Bench on August 11 had pointed out that there was no clarity in GO 190 regarding the basis for fixing Rs 2,500 per month as annuity and also there was no proper definition of a joint family and no clarity on providing employment to the affected families.
TS Advocate general K. Ramakrishna Reddy told the court that the government had issued GO 191 amending GO 190 and according to the amendments, the annuity would be fixed with appropriate indexation to the consumer price index and “joint family” had been replaced with “family with all members living together.”
Mr Ramakrishna Reddy said that a provision had been added for employment as per the guidelines of the State Industrial Policy 2014. He said as per the Policy, industries have to provide 80 per cent jobs to the people of TS.
The Bench said: “We are concerning about employment to the affected people of the area. If you extend 80 per cent to people statewide there is a possibility of local people being deprived of the benefit.”
The A-G said as and when the industries come up, employment will be created for the local youth of the area, which may take one year to six years. The Bench posted the case after four weeks.
