TELANGANA POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. Vs. ANDHRA PRADESH POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Applications for intervention/impleadment are allowed. On the reorganisation of the State of Andhra Pradesh with its bifurcation with two States namely, the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh vide the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 (hereinafter referred to as 'Act,2014'), the question that has arisen in the present appeals is about the allocation of the employees of Public Sector Undertakings between the two States. In these appeals, we are concerned with the employees of four Public Sector Undertakings in power sector. These include two power generation companies and two power distribution companies. In view of the bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh, the State of Telangana has formed its two power generation companies. Likewise, similar exercise is undertaken by the State of Andhra Pradesh as well. Accordingly, for State of Telangana following power utility companies have been formed.

(3.) The provision for allocation of the employees in the aforesaid power utilities in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was to be done in accordance with Section 82 of the Act, 2014. This provision reads as under: