The Srikrishna Committee Report for Telangana 2011

The Srikrishna Committee report on the Telangana / Andhra Pradesh issue has finally been released. At the all-party meet held in New Delhi today, Union home minister P Chidambaram discussed the contents of the 800-page report.
The Srikrishna Committee favours keeping the state united (point 1). The following are the 6 options (in decreasing order of priority - so point 1 is most preferred) in the Srikrishna Committee report, for which state has been waiting for with bated breath:

1. Maintaining the current united status, and creating 3 separate boards for the development (for Education, Irrigation and General Development) of backward districts in Telangana


2. Dividing Andhra Pradesh into 2 parts, Telangana and Seemandhra (which is basically reverting to the pre-1956 status), with Hyderabad as a Union Territory, and the 2 states developing their own capitals in due course


3. Club Rayalaseema and Telangana into a state called "RayalaTelangana", of which Hyderabad will be an integral part - Coastal Andhra to be separate state


4. Dividing Andhra Pradesh into 2 parts, Telangana and Seemandhra, and clubbing Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda into a Union Territory, and making it the joint capital of the 2 states above (the clubbing is to ensure routes into both Rayalaseema and Andhra from the capital)


5. Dividing Andhra Pradesh into 2 parts, Telangana and Seemandhra, with Hyderabad as capital of Telangana, and Seemandhra having new capital


6. Retain things the way they are, with a statutory Telangana Regional Council being created for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana


3 main parties - TRS, BJP and TDP - skipped the meeting, stating that they will settle for nothing less than a separate Telangana state.

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