Terms of reference for Telangana committee likely tomorrow

The much-awaited terms of reference (ToR) of the committee constituted on the Telangana issue is likely to be announced tomorrow.

Highly-placed sources said that after the approval of the Congress Core Group, home ministry officials gave final touches to it and the ToR is all set to be announced tomorrow.

The sources said the committee, headed by justice (Retd) BN Srikrishna, may have a tenure of one year.

On February 2, the government announced the five-member committee which would hold wide-ranging consultations with all sections of people and different political parties and groups on "the situation in Andhra Pradesh".

The other members of the committee are Ranbir Singh, Abusaleh Shariff, Ravinder Kaur and former home secretary Vinod K Duggal as member-secretary.