The apportionment of properties of Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in New Delhi between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh after almost a decade has rekindled hopes of amicable resolution of the pending bifurcation issues between the two Telugu States.
Though the two States reached broad agreement on several pending issues, stalemate persists in respect of some issues. The apportionment of 91 Schedule IX institutions, for instance, could not be completed as the AP Government was reportedly insisting on evolving a single formula for all the institutions together and this was opposed by Telangana.
“Recommendations made by the Sheila Bhide committee in relation to 68 out of the 91 institutions are acceptable to Telangana. There is also clarity on the definition of headquarters and location based division of institutions,” a senior official said adding that the Telangana Government was in favour of amicable resolution of issues pertaining to 23 institutions.
