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Draft bill fails to address people’s concerns: Naidu
Draft Bill Fails to Address People’s Concerns: Naidu, AP Reorganisation Bill 2013. The Union government was viewing every issue from political angle and hence was ignoring the demand for equal justice made by TDP,” he felt.
- reiterates his party not opposed to bifurcation
- Will fight till justice is rendered to residuary State
- Centre has not taken a scientific approach to allocate power to three regions
Hyderabad: Picking loopholes in the draft AP Reorganisation Bill 2013, Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday said the draft T Bill had failed to address various concerns of the people from both Telangana and Seemandhra regions.
He reiterated that his party was not opposed to bifurcation of the State but was strongly opposing the manner in which it was trying to bulldoze the objections and apprehensions of the people on several issues like sharing of power, water and employment among other issues. While creating a new State, the Centre cannot ignore the residuary State’s interests and that is what the TDP was opposing. At a press conference, Naidu said that TDP would fight to ensure that the residuary State gets all that was due to it and will see that equal justice was done to the region.
Naidu said that Telangana would face severe power crisis after division of the State as the majority of power projects were located in Seemandhra while most of the lift irrigation projects were taken up in T districts which require at least 8,000 MW of power. The Centre has assured to provide only 4,000 MW to T State from Seemandhra power plants, Naidu pointed out.
According to official figures the per capita consumption of power in Telangana was 1,208 KW per hour, while the Rayalaseema stood second with 937 KW per hour and the power consumption in coastal Andhra stood at 750 KW per hour. The TDP leader alleged that the Centre had not taken a scientific approach to allocate power to the three regions. “Rationality in the allocation of resources between two States was not there in the draft bill.
The Union government was viewing every issue from political angle and hence was ignoring the demand for equal justice made by TDP,” he felt.
Naidu further said that there was ‘unequal’ distribution of revenue, debts and employment between the two regions. The Centre finalised distribution of public debt on basis of population whereas the revenue sharing has not been done in a similar way. The distribution of revenue generated from Hyderabad, which has been the major revenue earning source for the government, was not mentioned in the bill. In the case of employment in private sector, majority of factories were located in Hyderabad but no specific reference was made with regard to protection of employees of Seemandhra working in the companies in the State capital.
