VIENNA-Confrontation with a Difference

sum of Rs 45 crores (and not Rs 28.34 crores only) should be spent between 1968-74 over and above the amounts that would be available to the region through the State's budget and the Five-Year Plan, and that the Centre itself would provide loan assistance to the State Government for the purpose, is, therefore, a significant concession to the requirements of the Telengana situation. This together with the Telengana Committee's enlarged powers, signifies that, short of conceding a formal disintegration of Andhra Pradesh, the Centre would go a long way to pacify the region. The Andhra area and a section of legislators from Andhra are not blind to the implications of these proposals which they think virtually betoken the break-up of Andhra Pradesh. After all, the Committee's resolutions on fundamental matters such as formulation of the region's budget, reser vation for Telengana in the services, allocations of funds for its development, and regulation of admissions into institutions of higher and technical education, which are becoming binding on the State Government may leave little room for independent State action.