Loss of capital city

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Loss of capital city

Common Capital & Its Governance

The  Act  has  ordained  that  the  Hyderabad  city  would  be  the  common capital of the successor States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for a period of ten years. The Act has empowered the Governor with  ‘special responsibility for the  security  of  life,  liberty  and  property  of  all  those  who  reside  in  the  Greater Hyderabad  Municipal  Corporation  (GHMC)  area’.  However,  it  has  made  it ‘mandatory  for the Governor to consult the Council  of Ministers  of the State of Telangana’  while  discharging  this  responsibility.  It  is  evident  that  the  UPA government  had  neither  created  an  institutional  framework  essential  for effective governance of the common capital nor put  in place standard operating procedures  that  would  provide  equitable  platform  to both  State  Governments and ensures safety and security of the citizens, and fair and equitable treatment of  all  concerned.  The  simple  principles  of  good  governance,  it  appears,  were abandoned with an eye on political dividends.

 

  1. It is well known that knowledge, talent, skills, capital, and hard work of all Telugu  people  and  people  from  across  the  nation and  beyond  have contributed to the creation of Brand Hyderabad. The world-class infrastructure, industrial  parks,  Information  Technology  and  knowledge  networks,  research and  development hubs, international educational institutions, and the  dynamic urban  megalopolis  that  Hyderabad  has  become  during  the  past  two  decades thanks to the vision, passion and hard work invested in the late 1990s and early years  of  the  last  decade,  is  under  the  threat  of  being  undone  and  the  Brand Hyderabad is under pressure because the previous government had failed to put in  place  an  effective  institutional  mechanism  and  sustain  the  enabling environment essential for capital city governance.

 

To make matters worse, the State of Andhra Pradesh  has not even been assigned a location for its capital city thus far.  Instead, an expert committee has been set up by the central government to give its recommendation in six months from the appointed day. Yet another effort to snatch away the authority and the right  of  the  new  State  to  determine  its  own  capital city.  To  compound  the problem,  the  perambulations  of  the  expert  committee to  different  parts  of  the residuary State has given rise to contending claims, conflicting pronouncements, speculations, expectations and avoidable disappointment.

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