The State government is gearing up to present a strong case in support of its arguments related to bifurcation of assets and liabilities between the two successor States - Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - during the meeting convened by the Union Home Ministry on August 8.
The government has reportedly decided to depute a delegation of senior officials, preferably secretaries, of the related departments for the meeting to be chaired by the Union Home Secretary.
The development assumes significance as the AP government had deputed a delegation of senior officials covering different departments to the previous meeting while Telangana was represented by officials of the State Reorganisation Affairs wing headed by its secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao.
The State government had accordingly decided to depute senior officials from the Industries, Irrigation, General Administration Department and other departments for the meeting.
Letters are being addressed to the officials concerned to come prepared with relevant documents and files in support of the arguments made by the State in the past.
The meeting comes in the light of repeated adjournments of the bilateral meetings convened by the Union Ministry since December last for discussing about the status of implementation of the assurances given to the two States under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014.
With the two States failing to communicate a mutually acceptable date for convening the meeting, the Union Ministry took the initiative and convened the meeting to resolve the pending issues through bilateral discussions.
Key issues
Some of the major issues that are expected to figure in the meeting include division of Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in New Delhi, division of assets and liabilities of Singareni Collieries Company Limited, and Andhra Pradesh Heavy Machinery and Equipment Limited (APHMEL), claims and counter claims on the payment of power dues by the distribution companies of the two States and division of the State Finance Corporation Limited.
n addition, bifurcation of Schedule X institutions, particularly the stalemate existing over the State Council of Higher Education and apportionment of assets and liabilities of around 40 institutions under the Schedule IX are also likely to come up for discussion.
