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Bifurcation blues: Telangana tells Andhra Pradesh to pay up Rs 12,111 crore power dues

has demanded a quick resolution of all pending bifurcation issues with neighbour Andhra Pradesh and urged the Centre to settle them at the earliest.
At a joint meeting on the bifurcation issues between the two states on Wednesday, Telangana slammed AP for dragging its feet on resolving the issues and demanded payment of dues from AP and Centre to the state immediately.

On the power bills issue, Telangana said it should get dues of Rs 12,111 crore from AP. Telangana insisted it should get Money spent on common institutions and higher Education institutes. Since some issues were pending with the High Court, Telangana suggested to AP to withdraw cases for an amicable settlement of the pending issues.

Telangana said it had taken a firm stand that unless court cases were withdrawn, it cannot go ahead with bifurcation of Schedule IX and X institutions.

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