HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday held that the governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state have to provide facilities to people of the other states with regard to the institutions listed in the 10th Schedule of the Act. Sivaraju Srinivas, counsel appearing for the petitioner, submitted that Section 75 of the Act 2014 stipulated that the government of AP or TS, as the case may be, shall, in respect of the institutions specified in the 10th Schedule of the Act, located in that state, continue to provide facilities to the people of the other states for a period of one year from June 2, 2014 till June 1, 2015. In the meanwhile both states have to reach an agreement.
He said that if no agreement was reached on or before June 1, 2015, the facilities and services were to be continued to be provided to the people of AP or Telangana state till the Centre took a decision. Mr Srinivas contended that since JNTU Architecture and Fine Arts University was listed in the 10th Schedule, it was the duty of the varsity to continue its services to AP till the issuance of an order by the Centre.
Counsel appearing for the varsity said that they had offered services to the AP students till June 1, 2015 as mandated in the Act and since there was no order from the Centre they had stopped the services. The bench pointed out that the varsity cannot suspend the service on the ground of no response from the Centre and granted an order suspending the order of the varsity.
Counsel for the petitioner also pleaded for a stay on appointment of a vice-chancellor to the varsity as it had jurisdiction on both states, and Telangana alone could not take a decision on appointment of the V-C till the Centre settled the issue. The bench issued notices to the Telangana and AP governments and the varsity and adjourned the matter.
HC stays G.O. 28 on plea by cooperative unions:
The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday stayed a GO issued by the Telangana state government for adopting the AP Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies Act, 1995 under Section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice A.V. Sesha Sai granted the interim order while dealing with two petitions by the Nalgonda-Ranga Reddy Milk Producers Mutually Aided Cooperative Union Ltd and the Advocates' Mutually Aided Cooperative Society Limited challenging GO Ms No 28 dated April 19, 2016.
The petitioners contended that the government has entirely altered statutory framework while adopting the Act, which perpetuates increased state control and diminishes the independence and democratic functioning of cooperative societies. They argued that this was against the principles of cooperative independence and autonomy and sought to whittle down the tenets of the cooperative movement. While staying the GO, the bench issued the notice.
