Thursday, January 6, 2011

Key points of Justice Srikrishna Committee's report

THE COMMITTEE

CHAIRPERSON - Shri Justice B N Srikrishna (Retd.), Former Judge, SupremeCourt of India.

MEMBER SECRETARY -Shri Vinod Kumar Duggal, IAS (Retd.), Former Home Secretary, Government of India

MEMBERS

Prof (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi

Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Chief Economist /Senior Fellow,National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi

Prof (Dr.) Ravinder Kaur, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi

The Inter State Council Secretariat (ISCS) provided full secretarial assistance including technical and budgetary support to the Committee

Six OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS/OPTIONS:

(i) Maintain status quo

(ii) Bifurcation of the State into Seemandhra and Telangana; with Hyderabad as a Union Territory and the two states developing their own capitals in due course

(iii) Bifurcation of State into Rayala-Telangana and coastal Andhra regions with Hyderabad being an integral part of Rayala- Telangana

(iv) Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Seemandhra and Telangana with enlarged Hyderabad Metropolis as a separate Union Territory. This Union Territory will have geographical linkage and contiguity via Nalgonda district in the south-east to district Guntur in coastal Andhra and via Mahboobnagar district in the south to Kurnool district in Rayalaseema.

(v) Bifurcation of the State into Telangana and Seemandhra as per existing boundaries with Hyderabad as the capital of Telangana and Seemandhra to have a new capital

(vi) Keeping the State united by simultaneously providing certain definite Constitutional/Statutory measures for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana region - creation of a statutorily empowered Telangana Regional Council



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