Andhra Pradesh State and Its Implications
RESIDUA L ANDHRA PRADESH AND ITS MAJOR IMPLICATIONS
The hasty decision of UPA-2 bifurcating the Andhra Pradesh state from telangana has created problems but it doesn't address the apt solutions for them, proper strategies were not adopted while taking their decision into intiative during their tenure. By the time the decision has been spelled by the ruiling party state has been endorsed with several protests, violences and shut downs. The bifurcation issue of Andhra Pradesh is different from that of that of the other states, unless the guidelines of division is not planned accordingly they may end up in creating more problems. The three major implications will be faced by the bifurcation of the state if the proforma of division of state is not taken in preferential status, they are water disputes, administrative division, these problems was found to be impossible to resolved by the past UPA-2 which constituted their group of ministers.
The first and foremost problem of division is distribution of water resources, major rivers like Krishna and Godavari will flow through the newly formed state telangana then how these water sources are distributed is a down to earth question. It is also given that inter-state water issues may lead to intricate disputes. Karnataka, tamilnadu, maharastra stand as instantaneous example in this regard. The fertile Krishna delta which has given hallmark reputation to Andhra Pradesh state as India's rice granary, a conflict may foray if this issue of water distribution is not addressed carefully. The Krishna and Godavari having 811 tmcft and 1480 tmcft of water has already been undergone distribution project wise. Out of the 811 tmcft krishna's share of water 298 tmcft is allocated to telangana and 145 tmcft share to rayalaseema and 368 tmcft to Andhra region. The state has been allocated with the additional water of 227 tmcft by Krishna water disputes tribunal out of which 77 tmcft is allocated to telangana region and remaining to seemandhra region, the surplus water is hitherto is enjoyed by both the states, but now apportioned among the three riparian states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. How the surplus water will be distributed if the state is divided, this surplus water has been programmed for seven projects-four in telangana and three in seemandhra. But we should see how the things will go smoothly as the projects are based on these surplus water and these projects will not have legal clarity till the tribuna will give specific awards for water distribution. Water distribution is not an insurmountable issue it may be properly sorted out provided if the centre and state takes keen survelliance on this issue. Another major issue is the power distribution, out of the Andhra pradesh's power generation having an installed capacity of 8924 MW, 4825 MW i.e 54% of the generation is from telangana projects and remaining is from seemandhra projects, it will take sometime to construct additional ongoing projects as they cannot do it overnight.
But as the appointed day june 2 has been passed out constitutionally and politically two states have been created, the present TDP governance in Andhra Pradesh has to combat with several challenges, because now Andhra Pradesh is smaller state encountered with different phases of challenges. But the implications before the present C.M Chandrababu naidu is much bigger than they ruled from the undivided state from 1995 to 2004. Building of new capital near Vijayawada and attracted a big investements which were dwarfed by the Hyderabad, sorting out funds to fulfill the electoral promises such as loan waiver for farmers and others. These are the foremost difficulties which would confront Mr.Naidu as C.M. TDP joined hands with the BJP lead NDA government nearly in these two terms TDP has accepted the speakership of loksabha but stayed out of the government, but now Mr.Naidu is keen in allying with BJP to fight against congress naidu has inducted two ministers from BJP into his cabinet thus cementing the relationship with the national party BJP. BJP at the centre and TDP at the state do not need to support each other, but these parties think that their alliance is a long investment. But many of the speculations were rifed out that when TDP allied with BJP they may get loss rather than gain because they have tied up with a party that has supported the bifurcation of state on par with the lines of UPA-2 governance. But the confidence and the amount of boosting words spelled by Mr.naidu has given huge amount of contentment in their hearts when naidu himself said that he will work as a coolie for reconstructing and rebuilding the new capital city and he also sought the help and generosity of the people.
The hasty decision of UPA-2 bifurcating the Andhra Pradesh state from telangana has created problems but it doesn't address the apt solutions for them, proper strategies were not adopted while taking their decision into intiative during their tenure. By the time the decision has been spelled by the ruiling party state has been endorsed with several protests, violences and shut downs. The bifurcation issue of Andhra Pradesh is different from that of that of the other states, unless the guidelines of division is not planned accordingly they may end up in creating more problems. The three major implications will be faced by the bifurcation of the state if the proforma of division of state is not taken in preferential status, they are water disputes, administrative division, these problems was found to be impossible to resolved by the past UPA-2 which constituted their group of ministers.
The first and foremost problem of division is distribution of water resources, major rivers like Krishna and Godavari will flow through the newly formed state telangana then how these water sources are distributed is a down to earth question. It is also given that inter-state water issues may lead to intricate disputes. Karnataka, tamilnadu, maharastra stand as instantaneous example in this regard. The fertile Krishna delta which has given hallmark reputation to Andhra Pradesh state as India's rice granary, a conflict may foray if this issue of water distribution is not addressed carefully. The Krishna and Godavari having 811 tmcft and 1480 tmcft of water has already been undergone distribution project wise. Out of the 811 tmcft krishna's share of water 298 tmcft is allocated to telangana and 145 tmcft share to rayalaseema and 368 tmcft to Andhra region. The state has been allocated with the additional water of 227 tmcft by Krishna water disputes tribunal out of which 77 tmcft is allocated to telangana region and remaining to seemandhra region, the surplus water is hitherto is enjoyed by both the states, but now apportioned among the three riparian states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. How the surplus water will be distributed if the state is divided, this surplus water has been programmed for seven projects-four in telangana and three in seemandhra. But we should see how the things will go smoothly as the projects are based on these surplus water and these projects will not have legal clarity till the tribuna will give specific awards for water distribution. Water distribution is not an insurmountable issue it may be properly sorted out provided if the centre and state takes keen survelliance on this issue. Another major issue is the power distribution, out of the Andhra pradesh's power generation having an installed capacity of 8924 MW, 4825 MW i.e 54% of the generation is from telangana projects and remaining is from seemandhra projects, it will take sometime to construct additional ongoing projects as they cannot do it overnight.
But as the appointed day june 2 has been passed out constitutionally and politically two states have been created, the present TDP governance in Andhra Pradesh has to combat with several challenges, because now Andhra Pradesh is smaller state encountered with different phases of challenges. But the implications before the present C.M Chandrababu naidu is much bigger than they ruled from the undivided state from 1995 to 2004. Building of new capital near Vijayawada and attracted a big investements which were dwarfed by the Hyderabad, sorting out funds to fulfill the electoral promises such as loan waiver for farmers and others. These are the foremost difficulties which would confront Mr.Naidu as C.M. TDP joined hands with the BJP lead NDA government nearly in these two terms TDP has accepted the speakership of loksabha but stayed out of the government, but now Mr.Naidu is keen in allying with BJP to fight against congress naidu has inducted two ministers from BJP into his cabinet thus cementing the relationship with the national party BJP. BJP at the centre and TDP at the state do not need to support each other, but these parties think that their alliance is a long investment. But many of the speculations were rifed out that when TDP allied with BJP they may get loss rather than gain because they have tied up with a party that has supported the bifurcation of state on par with the lines of UPA-2 governance. But the confidence and the amount of boosting words spelled by Mr.naidu has given huge amount of contentment in their hearts when naidu himself said that he will work as a coolie for reconstructing and rebuilding the new capital city and he also sought the help and generosity of the people.
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