Amendment of Section 2.

In the Andhra Pradesh Infrastructure Development Enabling Act, 2001, (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), in section-2,- (1) to clause (i), the following proviso shall be added, namely,- "Provided that unless the parties otherwise agreed the provisions of chapters V and VI of the Act shall not apply to any of the projects under taken as per provisions of the Act.". (2) after clause (s), the following new clause shall be inserted, namely,- "(sa) 'Implementing Agency' means any department of Government, any Government Corporation or Public Sector undertaking and Government Agencies etc., which shall implement their projects independently by following the procedure i. e., Business Rules of their department, and other rules being followed by respective Government Departments, Government Agencies, Public Sector undertaking respectively. The Infrastructure Authority may be choosen to be Implementing Agency and frame its own procedure for such projects.". (3) clause (ff) shall be omitted. (4) to clause (ss), the following provisos shall be added, namely,- "Provided that the interested applicants shall mean only qualified bidders. Provided further that the proprietary information means and includes the business plan of the proponent viz., Technical data, the commercial information and plans or design etc., prepared by proponent but not the revenue share offered by proponent.".