The GoM, set up to look into the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday could not finalise its report and the draft bill on Telangana and decided to meet again tomorrow before submitting them to the Union Cabinet. The Group of Ministers, in its meeting today discussed issues related to providing special status to both the states under Article 371-D of the Constitution and believed to have examined a proposal to include two districts of Rayalseema in Telangana. However, the process of finalising the report and the draft bill remained inconclusive. “We will meet again tomorrow,” Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters after the meeting, which was attended by Union Ministers A.K. Antony and P. Chidambaram, among others. ...

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