The Group of Ministers (GoM) entrusted the task of dividing Andhra Pradesh state will have their second meeting at New Delhi Saturday to take the process to further level. During their first meeting held on 11th the tasks were distributed among the members. The state government, which was asked to send the details of water and power resources and the employees engaged in these operations, may send its report to GoM for taking decisions on how to share them between two states of Andhra and Telangana after bifurcation.

The officers, who prepared the report, have observed that these three issues are very complicated as they were spread between two regions and at the same are very much interlinked. For example the lower Sileru hydel project that supplies power and water for irrigation purposes has spread between Kammam and Visakhapatnam districts, while its site office is in East Godavari district. The right bank of Srisailam irrigation project is in Kurnool and the left bank in Mehboob Nagar in Telangana region.

Except two live rivers Krishna and Godavari all the other 23 rivers that are flowing across the state can’t be reliable sources for irrigation or drinking water facility for Andhra region. Hence, how the GoM distribute these two main water resources of Krishna and Godavari between two states is going to be very crucial. The same way power generation plants are also located in both regions of the state, while their coal resources are located in Telangana region.

However, the officers don’t want to give their comments or judgment on these issues, since GoM is entrusted to resolve these issues.