Saturday, April 12, 2008

AP Govt gets High Court notice

By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 10: Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday issued noticesto the State government on a petition challenging the withdrawal of the GOMs No 913 of 1987, which provided for protection of hills, valleys and reservation for poorer sections in lands and housing the township areas. Thepetition was filed by Satyanarayana and two others.
While dealing with the petition Justice Nooty Ramamohan Rao granted two weeks time to the government to file the reply to the notice and adjournedthematter to April 21.The state government had issued GO Ms 912 and 913 framing guidelines to be followed while formulating townships near Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam,Vijayawada and Guntur corporations.
The petitioner told the court that the state government had issued GO Ms 228 in March claiming that the GO 913 had become stumbling block fordevelopment and withdrew the GO 913.The petitioners submitted that the present GO was unconstitutional and against the poor people.

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