President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday promulgated an ordinance, on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet, for transfer of a cluster of mandals and villages in Khammam district to the successor state of Andhra Pradesh for the purpose of Polavaram project.
The ordinance on Polavaram was necessitated as the proposal is not part of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 approved by the Parliament in the last session of the 15th Lok Sabha as the UPA government chose to make it as an after thought. The new state of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh would come into existence on June 2.
The proposal which has now become an ordinance has been vehemently opposed by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) at whose behest Telangana observed bandh on Thursday.
The ordinance would pave way for transfer of 136 villages, 211 hamlets and seven mandals of Khammam district to the successor state of Andhra Pradesh to execute Polavaram project.
A gazette notification said that the President is satisfied that the circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action and in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 123 of the Constitution, the President has promulgated an ordinance called the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2014. It shall come into force at once.
It seeks to include letters and figures ‘‘Khammam (but excluding the revenue villages in the Mandals specified in G.O.Ms. No. 111 Irrigation & CAD (LA IV R&R-I) Department, dated the 27th June, 2005 and the revenue villages of Bhurgampadu, Seetharamanagaram and Kondreka in Bhurgumpadu Mandal)’’, the words and brackets ‘‘Khammam (but excluding the Mandals of Kukunoor, Velairpadu and Bhurgampadu but not including its revenue villages of Pinapaka,Morampalli Banzar, Bhurgampad, Nagineniprolu, Krishnasagar, Tekula, Sarapaka, Iravendi, Mothepattinagar, Uppusaka, Sompalli and Nakripeta under the Palvancha Revenue Division,and the Mandals of Chintoor, Kunavaram, Vararamachandrapuram and Bhadrachalam but not including the revenue villages of Bhadrachalam under the Bhadrachalam Revenue Division)’’ shall be substituted.”
