P. A. CHOUDARY, J.

( 1 ) SIXTEEN Municipalities, some from Andhra and the others from Telangana but all of which have come of age being in existence for several years, financially virile and vibrant, effectively serving the needs of the respective inhabitants, cry cut for help against a common sentence of death passed on them by the Andhra Pradesh State Legislature by means of Section 2 of Act No. 16 of 1979, which reads thus : -"section 2.- In Section 3 of the A. P. Municipalities Act, 1966, for sub-section (7) the following sub-section shall be substituted, nemely :- (7) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or in any judgment decree or order of a Court, Tribunal or other authority, every local area with a population of less than twenty five thousand as at the last census for which a Municipality was constituted or was deemed to have been constituted under this Act shall cease to be such Municipality on and from the commencement of the andhra Pradesh Municipalities and Gram Panchayats (Amendment) act, 1979". The idea of local Self-Government in our modern Constitutional history is firmly planted by Lord Ripon s famous Resolution of 1882. In that resolution of the Governor General

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