Buildings to be apportioned to 2 States

Express News Service
Hyderabad, March 20:
  All the buildings of state offices in Hyderabad will be divided to locate state level offices of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana after June 2.
  The Assembly, Secretariat and other buildings will be divided so as to function the administration of two states.
  The Old and New MLA quarters and Ministers' quarters will be divided on 58:42 ratio so that peoples' representatives of both the States will live there.
 Likewise, the state level offices like Excise, APERC, State Election Commission will be allotted between two states. It means that the State offices of the both the states will continue in the same buildings, till the residuary AP government made its arrangements for new offices.
  Hyderabad is common capital for both the States for ten years. If the AP government wanted to move out of Hyderabad before ten years, the AP government had to make its own arrangments. Until then, the two Heads of Departments (HoDs) will function in the present buildings of respective offices, the official sources said.
   "If the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh wanted the Commissioner of Agriculture to locate in Vijayawada, they will move out. But, we are making arrangements to run the offices on the Appointed Day," an officer said.
 The same was explained to Governor ESL Narasimhan at the first meeting of the sectoral committee "Buildings in Hyderabad and Properties across State" held at Raj Bhavan on Thursday evening. The final decisions will be taken in the later meetings, sources said. Roads and Buildings principal secretary B Sam Bob and other officials were present at the meeting.

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