T panel report on Dec.30- Committee Members To Meet Party Leaders At High-Tea Today

Hyderabad: It is official now.The Srikrishna Committee will submit its report to Union home minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi at 5 pm on December 30.While sources in the state government confirmed on Wednesday that this was communicated to them by the commission,officials in Srikrishna panel member-secretary V K Duggals office said the appointment with the Union home minister has also been confirmed to them by the Centre. The high-tea with political party leaders to be held by the members of the committee including its chairman B N Srikrishna on Thursday evening will be the last one.After their return to New Delhi,the committee will issue a notification stating that its deliberations on this subject have concluded, said the sources.

The committee has examined the situation in the state with reference to the demand for a separate state of Telangana as well as the demand for maintaining the present status of a united state and reviewed developments in the state since its formation. Though the committee wanted to personally thank Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu,TRS chief K Chandrasekar Rao, P Rajyam chief K Chiranjeevi for their cooperation,all of them would not be available on Thursday as they are away on their political engagements.According to sources,all of them have already informed the committee about their inability to attend the high tea at Lake View Guest House between 3 and 4 pm.

As per the schedule of the committee on Thursday,member-secretary Duggal will meet governor E S L Narasimhan at 12.30 pm and brief him about their work.Duggal is also slated to meet chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy,chief secretary S V Prasad and director general of police K Aravinda Rao before the high tea,the sources added. From 3 pm onwards,the entire committee will meet political parties and their representatives,non-governmental organizations
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Jai Bolo shoot gets nod
The strike by film workers notwithstanding,the Telugu Film Producers Council (TFPC) has permitted the director of Jai Bolo Telangana,N Shankar to complete the shooting of the film.Since the release of the movie on Telangana was planned for this month-end,the TFPC which had stalled all shootings because of the film federations strike,made an exception and permitted that Shankar can go ahead with shooting the remaining portion of the film,if any.According to film industry sources,Shankar had made a representation to the TFPC about the need to complete his film so as to release it by the year-end before the Srikrishna Committee submits its report.It is up to the director to get the cooperation of the film workers for his film.He can also complete the post-production work, an office-bearer of the producers council said.
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(Source-toi)