New Delhi The high-level committee appointed by the Centre to go into the emotive issue of Telangana has also been asked to examine the option of a united Andhra Pradesh and given time till the end of the year to submit its report, prompting the proponents of the separate statehood to denounce it.
The seven-point terms of reference has mandated the committee headed by Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna to review the developments in Andhra Pradesh since its formation and their impact on the progress and development of the different regions of the state.
It will "examine the situation in the state of Andhra Pradesh with reference to the demand for a separate state of Telangana as well as the demand for maintaining the present status of a united Andhra Pradesh," the ToR said. The committee has been asked to submit its report by December 31 this year.
In Hyderabad, TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has been spearheading the Telangana agitation, said, "The Centre has betrayed us once again". He directed all his party MPs, MLAs and MLCs to resign from their posts immediately in protest against the "betrayal".
The committee, constituted on February 3, will examine the impact of the recent developments in the state on the different sections of the people such as women, children, students, minorities, other backward classes, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
The committee includes Ranbir Singh, Abusaleh Shariff, Ravinder Kaur and former Home Secretary Vinod K Duggal as member-secretary.
Justice B N Srikrishna is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court. While Ranbir Singh is the Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi, Abusaleh Shariff is the Senior Research Fellow at International Food Policy Research Institute, Delhi.
Ravinder Kaur is professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi.
The terms of reference said the committee will "identify the key issues that must be addressed while considering the matter".
It said the panel "will consult all sections of the people, especially the political parties, on the aforesaid matters and elicit their views; to seek from the political parties and other organisations a range of solutions that would resolve the present difficult situation and promote the welfare of all sections of the people; to identify the optimal solutions for this purpose; and to recommend a plan of action and a road map".
The committee will consult other organisations of civil society such as industry, trade, trade unions, farmers' organisations, women's organisations and students' bodies on the specified matters and elicit their views with specific reference to the all round development of the different regions of the state and make any other suggestion or recommendation that the Committee may deem appropriate, the ToR said.
Both Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who were at a function together, said they would react after studying the ToR.
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