New Delhi: The Justice Srikrishna
Committee on Telangana on Monday extended the deadline for sending representations on the statehood issue till April 10 instead
of March 31 as announced earlier.
The Committee headed by B N Srikrishna issued a
public notice, which said representations on the contentious
statehood issue will be received till April 10.
It said the deadline has been extended heeding to
demands from various groups in Andhra Pradesh.
The panel had on February 20 issued a public notice in
newspapers inviting suggestions or views from political
parties, social organisations and other stakeholders in the
state by March 31.
The notice, issued by the panel's Member-Secretary
Vinod K Duggal, in major newspapers said the consultation
process would begin after April 10.
The committee has so far received 14,000
representations from various organisations and individuals in
the form of memoranda and letters.
The committee has already started studying historical,
constitutional, political, legal, economic, social and
cultural aspects to give its view on the statehood issue.
The panel has been mandated to "examine the situation
in the state of Andhra Pradesh with reference to the demand
for a separate state of Telangana as well as the demand for
maintaining the present status of a united Andhra Pradesh".
Other members of the committee are Ranbir Singh, vice
chancellor of the National Law University, Delhi, Abu Saleh
Shariff, senior research fellow in International Food Policy
Research Institute, Delhi, and Rabinder Kaur, professor at the
department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian
Institute of Technology-Delhi.
The committee has been mandated to review the
developments in the state since its formation and their impact
on the progress and development of different regions.
PTI
First Published: Monday, March 22, 2010, 23:02