Intensive study on special status to A.P.: Union Minister

A meeting of TDP and BJP MPs will be held on August 25. By August 25 the group will submit a report to her on the colour, shape and contours on how to implement it in Andhra Pradesh.

August 23, 2014 12:52 am | Updated November 16, 2021 08:26 pm IST - VISAKHAPATNAM:

Union Minister of State for Industry and Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman addressing BJP workers at a meeting in Visakhapatnam on Friday.  — 0Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam

Union Minister of State for Industry and Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman addressing BJP workers at a meeting in Visakhapatnam on Friday. — 0Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam

Expressing her total commitment to development of nascent Andhra Pradesh and presenting a three-month report card, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman has said a meeting of TDP and BJP MPs will be held on August 25 on how to extend the special status on the lines of hill states to the State.

Addressing a BJP meeting after a felicitation to her here on Friday, she said a group was formed in the Commerce and Industry Ministry on extending the Act and intensive study was going on.

Report

By August 25 the group will submit a report to her on the colour, shape and contours on how to implement it in Andhra Pradesh.

The study was going on whether to give special status directly or how to transfer all the aspects of the special status since Andhra Pradesh was not a hill State, she said. Inputs will be taken from all the MPs at the August 25 meeting, she said.

Granting special status to Andhra Pradesh for five years is a part of the AP Reorganisation Act.

Ms. Sitaraman said during her stint in Uttarakhand in 2011 for three months during elections there, she analysed the Act.

Andhra Pradesh BJP president and Visakhapatnam MP K. Haribabu and Anakapalle MP Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao spoke.

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