Amaravati: In a setback to the YSRCP government, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday said that the state government should follow the CRDA Act and ordered it to develop Amaravati as the capital, as per the master plan, within six months.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra in its final verdict on a batch of petitions filed challenging the acts on decentralisation and repeal of AP CRDA on Thursday, said that the state legislature had no competence to make any legislation on the state’s capital and directed the state government not to shift any office from the present capital city Amaravati.
The Court asked the state government to move according to CRDA act only and further added that the government doesn't have legislative competence to change the capital city plan. It directed the state government to develop Amaravati as the capital city and implement the master plan without any modifications. It further asked the state government to hand over the developed plots to farmers within three months.
