Union Cabinet Clears Telangana

Indian Home Minister, Mr. Susheel Kumar Shinde announcing the Cabinet's 

decision to clear Telangana on Thursday.

After intense deliberations that lasted for over three hours, the Union Cabinet at its meeting on Thursday formally cleared the Telangana draft bill bifurcating South India’s largest state of Andhra Pradesh. Addressing the press conference soon after the meeting, Union Home Minister, Mr. Susheel Kumar Shinde said that the newly formed Telangana State comprises of the same 10 districts of the erstwhile Hyderabad state of 1956 with Hyderabad as its capital. The ten districts of Telangana include Adilabad, Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Ranga Reddy, and Warangal. Mr. Shinde also said that Hyderabad will act as the common capital for both the divided states for 10 years and that the law and order machinery during this period would rest with the governor of the newly formed Telangana state. Mr. Shinde also said that a committee would be constituted which will then decide on the capital for the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh within a period of 45 days. Mr. Shinde further added that the Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project across the Godavari River will be constructed wholly by the center after securing all the approvals from the ministry of environment and forests. The project when completed will irrigate the upland areas of Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari and Krishna districts apart from providing drinking water to the Visakhapatnam city.