Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma said in an affidavit that the application for removal or extension of time was filed to avoid giving the impression of disobeying the directions of the court.
Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma said in an affidavit that the application for removal or extension of time was filed to avoid giving the impression of disobeying the directions of the court.
The Andhra Pradesh government requested the High Court to seek legal remedies without prejudice to the removal of the time limit or extension given by it to five years for developing trunk infrastructure in the capital city of Amaravati. Taking into account the impossibility of compliance with the option. within the time frame directed by the court.
Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma said in an affidavit that the application for removal of the deadline or extension of time was filed to avoid appropriately challenging the March 3, 2022 judgment or giving the impression that legal remedies were already worked out. . ,
He said that the process of development includes revival or resumption of contracts for various works related to Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) which are incomplete and consequently revival agreements have to be signed with existing contractors.
The value of the contracted works was fixed at around Rs 42,232 crore. Most of these actions were performed primarily in anticipation of loans from multilateral financial institutions (MFIs), but most of them did not materialise.
The revival of these contracts requires resumption of negotiations with MFIs and the work is also partially dependent on the release of grants by the central government. Both are time-consuming processes, although the discussion had begun.
Banks were also informed about the requirement of funds and bankers mentioned that they would have to consult their headquarters to take a decision. The resumption of works in various road alignments involved land that was mired in litigation.
Mr Sharma further said that despite the challenges, work on two sites i.e. towers of MLCs and MLAs and All India Service Officers has resumed and works related to NGOs, Gazetted Officers and Group-D apartments will be resumed in due course. is expected to start from ,
Another task that remained was the development and allotment of restructured plots to the beneficiaries of LPS, and the need for change in land use for identified land parcels in areas with non-refundable plots.
Therefore, the reasonable minimum time required to complete a host of trunk infrastructure tasks is 60 months.
The development of the capital city and the capital region would take years to complete due to the issues involved. In addition, the government had limited resources and constraints and priorities of welfare and development activities. Broadly, the matter pertains to the creation of LPS infrastructure and the development of the capital city.
It may be noted that the HC directed the State and Capital Region Development Authority to complete the infrastructure works within one month from the date of its order (dated March 3, 2022) and Build and develop Amaravati capital city and region in six months,