The five-member committee, appointed by the Centre to go into demands for a separate state of Telangana and those opposing division of the state, will start holding the consultation process from the middle of March.
The justice BN Srikrishna Committee will start holding consulations with various groups and political parties from the middle of next month on the issue of a separate Telangana state.
The committee has asked the Andhra Pradesh government to make available infrastructure and other facilities for holding meetings in the state.
The five-member committee, appointed by the Centre to go into demands for a separate state of Telangana and those opposing division of the state, will start holding the consultation process from the middle of March, panel's member-secretary Vinod K Duggal said.
"I will be Hyderabad tomorrow to make available the infrastructure facilities for the committee when it goes there for official purposes," he told PTI. "These things have to be done before we start the consultation process in the middle of March. We will be holding consulations with all sections of people," he said.
Duggal said the committee needs interpreters, stenographers, recorders, conference rooms and other facilities for doing its job in Andhra Pradesh.
"The committee also needs place for holding consultations and meeting delegations from various organisations on the issue. All these issues have to be solved before the process begins," he said.
The former home secretary said the committee will not restrict itself to holding meetings in Hyderabad and its members will travel to other cities in the state if required.
The committe had held its first meeting on February 13 here and is scheduled to meet again on Thursday before it starts the consultation process.
The committee had on Saturday sought views and suggestions from political parties, associations and groups and civil society organisations on the vexed Telangana issue which has divided parties in Andhra Pradesh virtually on regional lines.
The committee has been mandated to "examine the situation in the state of Andhra Pradesh with reference to the demand for a separate state of Telangana as well as the demand for maintaining the present status of a united Andhra Pradesh".
Other members of the committee are Ranbir Singh, vice chancellor of the National Law University, Delhi, Abu Saleh Shariff, senior research fellow in International Food Policy Research Institute, Delhi, and Rabinder Kaur, professor at the department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi.
The committee has been mandated to review the developments in the state since its formation and their impact on the progress and development of different regions.
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