Court reiterates division on population ratio; dismisses Telangana government plea.
New Delhi: Telangana state suffered yet another a setback with the Supreme Court refusing to review its March 2016 verdict holding that it was not entitled to the entire assets and deposits of the erstwhile AP State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE).
The court in March ordered that the assets be divided between the two states of TS and AP in the ratio of 58:42 on the basis of their population and if the two states did not agree for this arrangement, the Centre would constitute a committee to arrive an agreement in two months.
On August 11, a Bench of Justices V. Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra dismissed the review petition filed by the TD government saying “no merits” but kept the review petition filed by the State Higher Education Council (SHEC) pending as it did not pass any order on this petition.
On Tuesday, the same Bench dismissed as “no merits” the review filed by the SHEC, which had contended that the state needs to pay around Rs 25,000 crore to Andhra Pradesh, if it wants to stake claim over these assets. Most of these assets are government offi-ces in Hyderabad, which are jointly shared by AP and Telangana. But the AP government had assessed the share at Rs 70,000 crore.
In March, the court had said that Telangana had claimed the entire funds and assets of APSCHE. This could surely not have been the intention of the legislature while enacting the Reorganisation Act, just because the institutions are in Hyderabad, which falls in Telangana.
