Powers of Government to take over or transfer control and management of educational institutions belonging to Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams to the Government or any authority

(1) Where the Committee by a resolution passed in that behalf requests the Government to take over or arrange for the transfer to any other authority of the control and management of any educational or other institutions specified in the Second Schedule, the Government may, by notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, take over itself or transfer to any local or other authority the control and management of any or all of the educational or other institutions specified in the Second Schedule from such date as may be specified in the said notification; and from the date so notified it shall be open to the Government or the local or other authority, as the case may be, to control and manage the said educational or other institution and all the properties and assets of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams pertaining to or intended to be used for, every such educational or other institution shall stand transferred to, and vest in the Government or the local or other authority, as the case may be, free from all encumbrances.

(2) Notwithstanding any contract or agreement or any law for the time being in force, every teacher or other person employed in any of the said educational or other institutions immediately before the date on which the control and management thereof is taken over by the Government or the local or other authority shall as from the said date be deemed to be an employee of the Government or such local or other authority and shall hold office on the same remuneration and upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privilleges as to pension, gratuity and other matters as he would have held under the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams until his remuneration, terms and conditions of service are duly altered by the Government:

Provided that every such employee shall, within a period of three months or such other period beyond three months as may be specified by the Government by a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, from the date of taking over of the control and management of the educational or other institutions exercise his option either to be retrenched from the service on receipt of such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed or to be absorbed in the service of the Government or local or other authority, as the case may be, with effect from the said date and shall be governed by the terms and conditions governing the said service which shall not be less favourable than those applicable to such employee prior to the said date.