(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Court pulled up the state administration for issuing what it termed as a clumsy Government Order (GO) to determine the nativity of the people in the new state.In a major embarrassment to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government in Telangana the High Court stayed the implementation of FAST (Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana) scheme and sought to know the rationale behind fixing November 1 1956 as the cut-off date for determining the nativity.
The High Court while staying the implementation of the fee reimbursement scheme pulled up the state administration for issuing what it termed as a clumsy Government Order (GO) to determine the nativity of the people in the new state.
The state government had issued the GO in July this year replacing the earlier fee reimbursement scheme for poor students with FAST. The scheme will be applicable to only those students whose parents had settled in Telangana on or before November 1 1956 when Andhra Pradesh the first linguistic state in the country was formed.
As per the controversial order college fee of only such students will be reimbursed. Students pursuing post-matric courses and those seeking admission into similar courses for the 2014-15 academic year will come under the purview of the scheme.
However the division bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P V Sanjay Kumar disapproved of the contents of the GO obsercing: “If we allow this GO it will result in secessionist and anti-integrationist acts. We have to strive to protect the integrity of this country.”
Telangana Advocate General K Ramakrishna Reddy submitted that the GO was issued only to work out modalities and a final decision was yet to be taken. He cited financial constraints to defend the move. The Chief Justice however noted: “If the government has financial difficulty it has the power to scrap the scheme but has no power to put such barriers which are unconstitutional.
In another setback of sorts for the Telangana government the court also stayed another GO that makes re-registration of all vehicles - replacing existing alpha-numeric code AP with TS in Telangana mandatory. The court’s directive came on the basis of two petitions filed separately by P Satyanarayana a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator and D Manikya Vara Prasad a former Congress Minister.
The division bench while staying the GO on re-registration of vehicles made it clear that it would not allow attempts to misuse power in a whimsical manner. It said that the rules made under Section 65 of the Motor Vehicles Act should be in tune with the Constitution. For more news from Khaleej Times follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/khaleejtimes and on Twitter at khaleejtimes Follow khaleejtimes ->
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