W.P. No.9784 of 2013 is filed to declare G.O.Ms. No.101, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development dated 18.03.2013, G.O.Ms. No.194, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development dated 26.03.2013, G.O.Ms. No.123, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department dated 26.03.2013 and all subsequent proceedings of the respondents, cancelling the Venkatrayapuram Industrial Area Township and merging it with Tanuku Municipality including resolution No.96 dated 23.03.2013, as illegal, malafide, contrary to law, without jurisdiction, and in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

Facts, in brief, are that Andhra Sugars Limited established a Sugar Factory in Mandapaka village in the year 1947. Several other industries were, thereafter, established in the said village either by it or by its group companies. A vast extent of 400 acres became an industrial area with employees’ colonies. On demand for the constitution of an industrial township, in terms of Section 5 of the A.P. Gram Panchayat Act, (hereinafter called the “1994 Act”), the District Collector issued a show cause notice to the Mandapaka Gram Panchayat. This Court, by order in W.P. No.5888 of 1988 dated 26.03.1992,