In 2014, the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, the law that bifurcated the state into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, was passed. It gave birth to a new state, and also eventually to the RTI activist in V. Ramesh Chandra Varma, a lawyer by profession.  By 2016, Varma found “many deficiencies” in the implementation of the Act. His main contention was that the central government was not providing what was promised in the Act. The Act, among other things, contained promises of fin