T field visits to begin soon - Final Round Of Public Consultations From Next Week

The Srikrishna committee will wrap up the process of public consultations next week and start field visits thereafter,according to committee member-secretary VK Duggal. Talking to media on Thursday, Duggal said the committee will take up field visits across the state.The committee during its field visits will conduct public hearings and gather the opinion of the people on the separate Telangana state issue.
However, the committee will not visit the four Telangana districts of Warangal, Adilabad, Karimnagar and Medak once the election notification for byelections to 12 assembly seats comes into effect. When asked whether the committee would take poll results into account as part of its study, the official said  results will be there for everybody to see. Duggal said some of the committee members and officials were already visiting districts to study separate Telangana state issue. According to Duggal, Congress party had not officially submitted any report to the committee yet. They may participate in consultations during the three-day last round of talks beginning on June 16.

He said committee also wants to meet PCC president D Srinivas and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu. They already met the two leaders over a dinner recently. He said since some NRI groups also wanted to express their opinion on T issue,the committee will hold tele-conference with NRI organisations during  last round of consultation. As BJP already announced that it will not take part in consultations, Duggal said report submitted by BJP to home minister P Chidambaram during all-party meeting held in January will be considered as the partys official stand on the T issue. The representations submitted by anybody to Union home ministry will be automatically forwarded to committee, he added. Referring to criticism by some organisations that the committee was not well prepared on the issue, Duggal said, sometimes a few representatives may get carried away by their emotions and even allege that the committee had a predetermined plan. Our job is to ask them questions and obtain as much information as we can. Some- times even if put a suggestive question, they get upset, he said. So far, the committee met more than 1000 people from 90 organisations as part of consultations, he added. However, Duggal appealed to media not to cover their field visits and allow them to do their job peacefully. People will not come out with their true feelings if media is around, he added.
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(source-toi)