The much awaited meeting of the Chief Secretaries of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with Union Home Ministry officials, to sort out issues on division of institutions under the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh here on Friday did not yield any results as both the States reiterated their known position on the contentious issues related to sharing of institutions under schedule IX and X.
Additional Home Secretary A.K. Singh and Director Ashutosh Jain heard the view point expressed by AP Chief Secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao and his Telangana counterpart Rajiv Sharma and said the Centre would take a view after examining the issues in detail.
While AP argued that the 107 institutions listed under schedule X, most of them located in Hyderabad, should be divided between the two successor States as per the State Reorganisation Act and jointly allowed to have access to services of these institutions, Telangana emphasised that they belonged to the State in whose territory they are located and their services could be availed through coordination between the two governments.
Andhra Pradesh officials pointed out that schedule X institutions were established investing common resources of both the States over a period of time in the combined State but employees belonging to AP working in these institutions are being discriminated.
Till the issue is amicably resolved, joint management should be allowed, they added.
Referring to the 89 institutions listed under schedule IX, both the States agreed to await the report of Sheela Bhide committee for apportioning of assets.
However, there was no agreement on definition of headquarters which was not clearly defined in the Act. While AP said headquarters should include common centres and facilities too along with the registered head office, Telangana rejected the interpretation.
For instance, in APSRTC, Bus Bhavan alone would qualify as the headquarters and not other centres, including hospital, it said.
The differences persisted on distribution of employees in these institutions too as Telangana government favoured nativity as the basis while AP wanted Kamalnathan guidelines for State-level staff distribution to be adopted.
The other sticking points continued to be institutions not listed either in IX and X scheduled. Andhra Pradesh said they belonged to it while Telangana said it would be based on geographical location.
