Dump waste in your yard, civic bodies told
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A Division Bench, comprising Justice V.V.S. Rao and Justice G. Krishna Mohan Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday ruled that municipalities and corporations have to set up their garbage dumping yards within their territorial limits, not in neighbouring villages. While allowing a batch of petitions by villagers of Yanamduru in West Godavari and Alluru in Prakasam districts that brought this matter up, the Bench held that the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board did not have the power to permit urban local bodies to set up waste processing and disposal facilities (WPD or dumping yard) near habitation clusters or water bodies.
Justice V.V.S. Rao said, “The selection of sites and the decision to set up WPD is contrary to Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Rules and consequently, authorisation granted by the APPCB is illegal.” The Bench ruled that the civic authorities are bound to discharge these mandatory duties, the default of which would attract penalties and punishments under Section 17 of the Environment Protection Act. It was also ruled that the District Collector and Commissioner of Land had no authority or power to alienate the land that lay with the Panchayat to an urban local body unless the Panchayat was divested by an appropriate authority and the alienation was granted by the government.
HC allows AP to shift teachers
The AP High Court on Wednesday gave a nod to conduct counselling for the transfer of teachers in the state. The court granted stay on an order issued by the AP Administrative Tribunal directing the government to consider the cases of teachers of DSC 2006 promoted to higher posts and also teachers transferred under rational scheme, in counselling for transfer of teachers in the state.
While hearing the petitions filed challenging the tribunal order, the court said that the counselling for transfers will go on according to the schedule. According to the Notification of the counselling, a teacher is required to work for a minimum period of two years at one station and was compulsorily liable to be transferred on completion of eight years of service.
The petitioners told the court that the Tribunal had considered the cases of teachers who fell short of two years of service at one station. They contended that it was contrary to the notification. The counselling was scheduled from July 3 to July 8.
School buses: Letter AS PIL
The AP High Court on Wednesday took up a public interest litigation based on a letter seeking action against the authorities concerned for accidents involving school and private buses. M.S. Patrudu, a resident of Visakhapatnam wrote a letter to the HC seeking intervention in the spate of accidents which has resulted in the death of innocent people, including school children. He said that the RTA authorities failed to perform their duties to periodically check the fitness of buses.
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