HYDERABAD KEY TO T ISSUE - DUGGAL

New Delhi: In an indication that a special status for Hyderabad may be recommended by the Srikrishna Committee,the panels member secretary V K Duggal said on Wednesday that the city was one of the key issues before the fivemember body.This is for the first time the spokesperson of the committee admitted that the controversial issue of the status of Hyderabad would be a key element of the report that they would submit to the Centre by December 31.

In a clear contrast from his earlier indication that the panel would give a report that would keep everybody happy,Duggal also said that if I were the director general of police I would be fully prepared for the law and order situation post December 31. This is seen as a signal that all may not be hunky dory after the report is submitted.Duggal added: Andhra Pradesh has a history of violence - like in 1969,1972 and 2009.

Duggal,who is the former home secretary,also said that along with the issue of Hyderabad,the matters of irrigation and water,power;public employment and the implementation of GO 610 were the other key issues engaging the attention of the committee.
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Duggals comments see TRS go red

As reported in TOI earlier,V K Duggal,who was addressing a press conference,said that with regard to the changes in the social economic and demographic profile and growth of Hyderabad city,the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research (CPR) had been asked to study the matter.

TRS representatives were livid on hearing about Duggals statements and vowed to intensify their agitation. Party supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao,in the capital presently,sought meeting with Duggal. But this was before Duggals utterances.Sources say that KCR was intrigued on hearing that the committee had engaged the CPR to study matters relating to Hyderabad and wanted details.In the event,however,the two could not meet. Other analysts said that they were not surprised that Hyderabad was emerging as the key element in the committees deliberations.With so much investments in the Hyderabad region,the Andhra investors were not willing to give up on the city even though the earlier opposition to Telangana has got diluted.This means that the committee has to come up with a solution on whom to give Hyderabad to, an analyst said.

Sources said that the CPR report will demonstrate that Hyderabad of 2010 is not Hyderabad of circa 1950. From being the capital of the Nizams dominion it has now transformed into a high-tech hub with people from all across the country having migrated to here.This has changed the demographic profile of the city and also extended its contours and size.
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(SOURCE-TOI)