HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh government told the Supreme Court that none of the provisions contained in the AP Reoganisation Act, 2014 had been implemented in entirety till date, even after nearly four years since the bifurcation of the state took place on June 2, 2014. The state government wants that all issues contained in various provisions of the Act should be implemented in a time bound manner by the Centre. The issue regarding division of 142 state institutions listed under Schedule X of the above Act, remained unsettled till date.
As for the establishment of steel plant in Kadapa district, it said that MECON has submitted the feasibility report to the ministry of steel in Feb 2018 and the Central government has to take action for establishing an integrated steel plant in a time bound manner.
In this regard, the AP government, represented by retired IAS officer L Premachandra Reddy, member secretary to advisory committee of AP state reorganization, recently filed counter affidavit in the petition filed by Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, Congress deputy leader in Telangana legislative council, seeking directions to the authorities concerned to take action on the representations made by him for implementation of provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014 enacted by the Union of India. Referring to Polavaram irrigation project, the state government said that the multi-purpose project which was accorded the status of a National project, was being carried out in accordance with law.