NIA nabs two IM operatives for Modi rally blasts
VARANASI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives from Mirzapur district of eastern UP on Monday on the charger of providing shelter to the terrorists who triggered blasts at BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s Patna rally on October 27 last. Those arrested were identified as Fakruddin Ali and Mohammad Ahmad, both members of the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen. The arrests were made from the Imambara area of the district. The NIA team interrogated the two arrested operatives for several hours and took them to New Delhi late in the evening. HYDERABAD: With Parliament approving the carving out of the country’s 29th state from Andhra Pradesh, central and state authorities are setting out to estimate its value to divide and distribute the assets – right from some of the biggest projects in the country like the Nagarjuna Sagar to the smallest piece of furniture.
A mammoth exercise on an unprecedented scale is required to create Telangana from Andhra Pradesh and redistribute the assets. The exercise is unlike the ones undertaken to carve out Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh because the new states formed only small parts.
It will also be much more difficult than creating Jharkhand from Bihar, which was not high on resources. The prosperous Andhra Pradesh has to be divided roughly in a ratio of 60:40 ratio for Andhra Pradesh: Telangana.
The main challenge, however, would be posed by Hyderabad, where approximately 84,000 state government employees and hundreds of offices have to be distributed between new entities.
According to the SocioEconomic Survey of Andhra Pradesh, the state has a geographical area of 275,045 sq km. The 2011 Census places the present state as India’s fourth largest by area and fifth largest by population, with 8.47 crore inhabitants.
State’s revenue of which the lion’s share is from sales tax accruing mostly from Hyderabad where the registered offices of most establishments are located
ASSEMBLY POSITION
AP assembly seats
RESOURCES TO BE RE-DISTRIBUTED
Land and goods: They will belong where they are now located. If they are in Telangana region they will remain with Telangana state and if in Seemandhra region, then to postsplit Andhra Pradesh.
Properties outside state Like
Andhra Bhawan in New Delhi, these will be apportioned on the basis of population ratio.
Greyhounds: The anti-Maoist forces of the state police would be distributed between the two, with the Centre administering the Greyhound Training Centre in Hyderabad for 3 years and giving it to Telangana thereafter.
Education: Existing admission system to schools and colleges, quota in all institutions will continue to be with both states for 10 years. Money matters: Treasury and bank balances, loans recovered, funds, investments and all liabilities like debt will be apportioned on the population ratio, which is roughly 58: 42 for Andhra Pradesh : Telangana
= 1% of seat share 58%
Andhra Pradesh assembly will get 175 and Telangana 119. After delimitation exercise, AP could have 225 and Telangana 153 seats.
There are 69 funds such as provident, pension, insurance, CM’s relief and village panchayat funds whose value is being calculated for apportionment. WHO GETS WHAT IN HYDERABAD
Civic body: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area of the city to be common capital for 10 years.
High court: It will be common till a separate high is constituted for AP Seats of power: Secretariat, assembly, etc, shall belong to Telangana state, with AP being given some government buildings to operate from till it develops its own capital in Seemandhra region. Govt firms: 83 of the 89 state government companies and corporations are headquartered in the city. These will be divided.
Training centres: Similarly, 94 of the 107 state training institutions in Hyderabad will be divided
= 1 training institutions 94 WATER
Projects would fall in the respective states according to their geographical locations
Existing River Water Disputes Tribunal awards would govern use of water project-wise
Krishna and Godavari River Management Boards to be set up for advising the two governments in management of the projects
COAL
The Singareni Collieries –one of the largest deposits in India – would go to Telangana
POWER
AP generation company units will be divided on the basis of geographical location. Lines of 132 KV and more shall be interstate transmission system lines