The State government has decided to present a comprehensive note in support of its arguments relating to division of the Schedule IX institutions ahead of the proposed meeting of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with his AP counterpart Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in the coming days.
The meeting of the Chief Ministers, the second after their recent meeting in Pragati Bhavan, is expected to explore the modalities that should be adopted for amicable resolution of the reorganisation issues. The meeting assumes significance as the meeting of the Chief Secretaries of the two States failed to break the deadlock pertaining to the Schedule IX institutions.
The exercise has been necessitated as disputes relating to 38 of the 91 institutions persist in spite of the efforts made by the State government to amicably resolve the pending problems. Disputes relating to 44 institutions had already been cleared while the government had taken a clear stand on the six institutions that are exclusively located in the neighbouring State.
Steps have been initiated to prepare an inventory of the Schedule IX institutions in a prescribed proforma. The government is accordingly listing out institution-wise details pertaining to their fixed assets of the institution, the extent of land under its possession, ownership pattern of the land, whether it is being held by the government or leased out to the respective organisation like land, ownership details, whether it is given as equity and whether any dissent note had been submitted regarding the allocation made by the expert committee.
The format includes details relating to fixed deposits of the particular institution, cash available and the allocation made to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh respectively by the expert committee. In addition, the format contains details of the liabilities as well as the employees’ strength in each of the institutions as well as whether the de-merger plan recommended by the expert committee had been accepted or not. Senior officials said the inventory had been envisaged to act as ready reckoner on the status of these institutions to the government so that the State could present a strong case in support of its arguments.