Hyderabad: The AP government introduced three Bills in the Assembly on Saturday, relating to enhancing the retirement age of APERC chairman and members, enhancing Law University Vice-Chancellor’s term from 3 to 5 years and to ensure registration of property on the basis of revenue records maintained electronically on the web without insisting on producing physical revenue records.
In the AP Electricity Reform Act, 1998, and the Electricity Act, 2003, Amendment Bill, the government said that the very object of the Act is to safeguard an assured term of five years for the chairperson and the members of a State Electricity Regulatory Commission to ensure continuity, consistency and efficiency in functioning of the commission. Hence the maximum age for a chairperson or a member of the regulatory commission needs to be enhanced to 70 years.
In the Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University Act, 2008, Amendment Bill, the government said that as per resolutions passed by the General Council of the university, the term of the Vice-Chancellor shall be increased from 3 years to 5 years, consistent with the guidelines of UGC which has been acted upon in almost all National Law Universities in the country.
Instead of the existing admission policy of the university, it is proposed that a minimum of 50 per cent seats of the total shall be filled as per the provisions of the AP Educational Institution (regulation of admissions) Order. 1974, 40 per cent of the seats shall be allotted on All India basis and remaining 10 pc shall be allotted to foreign citizens and non-resident Indians (NRIs).
As no campus of the university was established at Nizamabad, and the erstwhile state of AP was bifurcated into AP and Telangana, it would be appropriate to omit the word Nizamabad in the Act. To achieve these objectives, the government has decided to amend the Law University Act suitably.
In the AP Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971, amendment bill, the government said to ensure that the bankers grant loans basing on the revenue records maintained electronically in webland without insisting on production of any type of physical revenue records from the farmers and to ensure that the registration officers register property on the basis of revenue records maintained electronically, to make it optional for the owners to obtain physical copy of the title deed-cum-passbook, in place of two different documents, it made amendments.
