VMRDA including scheduled areas under its purview is illegal, says former bureaucrat
The Hindu
‘Some of the villages have already been proposed to be brought under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution’
The way in which VMRDA (Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority) proceeding to include scheduled areas in the district under its purview is illegal and unconstitutional, said former Union Energy Secretary E.A.S. Sarma here on Thursday.
He said that some of the villages have already been proposed to be brought under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution. He said the manner in which the VMRDA has been constituted, is violative of the provisions of Article 243ZE of the Constitution, as it has no representation from among the locally elected legislators. It should therefore be deemed to have no legal authority to take up regional planning exercises, he said.
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