New Delhi, March 24: Is there an economic case for a separate Telangana state and should the Centre set up a states reorganising commission to solve the vexed issue in Andhra Pradesh and similar demands in other parts of the country?
These were some of the questions discussed by politicians and intellectuals here today.
“The issue of division of Andhra Pradesh and carving a separate state of Telangana is a burning issue. But, one key question that nobody has clear answers to yet is that if there is an economic case for Telangana at all”, said Dr Surjit Bhalla, managing director of Oxus Research and Investments, a New Delhi-based economic research, asset management, and emerging-markets advisory.
He said if any of the economic surveys/studies were to be examined, then, there was no indication that if a state is formed out of a bigger one then it performs better.
—-PTI