Space hunt for Telangana offices
Officials have fasttracked the process of identification of office space
Hyderabad: With Telangana state coming into being on June 2, officials have fast-tracked the process of identification of office space, buildings and land to accommodate the elected representatives, nu-merous officials and offices of various government departments for Telangana and residuary state of Andhra Pradesh.
It is expected there will be utter chaos with Greater Hyderabad being a joint capital, with two Chief Ministers, two state Assemblies, a Telangana Secretariat and an Andhra Pradesh Secretariat, two DGPs, two High Courts and lots of dual posts and a plethora of ministers from both the states, functioning from a city spread over 625 square kilometres.
“Principal secretary of the revenue department has ordered completing of this work on priority and a report has to be submitted to the CCLA by Tuesday or Wednesday. Officials of both the collectorates of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts are busy identifying properties owned by it. The list will be submitted in a day or two,” a senior official said.