Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met his UP counterpart Yogi Adityanath in lucknow on Monday and had detailed discussion on various issues pending between the two states over division of assets.
Both Chief Ministers are native of Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, which was carved out from Uttar Pradesh in November 2000.
It was decided at the meeting that issues pending for the last 16 years would be resolved in a time-bound manner and both states would prepare a detailed note about all pending cases. later, Chief Secretaries of both states would meet to settle the issues.
If the issues were not resolved even then, the matter would be referred to the Chief Minister and finally the two states would approach the Union Home ministry. As per provisions of ‘UP State Reorganisation Act, 2000’, the Union Home ministry will be the arbiter in case of dispute between the states.
If the issues were resolved then Uttarkhand would get control over assets worth over Rs 4,200 crores. Senior officers of both states who participated said that the meeting ended on a fruitful note.
The departments where issue of division of assets are yet to be resolved are Irrigation department as 266 staff quarters, two guest houses, 36 irrigation cannels and 214 hectares of land in Haridwar district were still under control of the UP government. The other departments are Rural Housing, Panchyati Raj, Home, Transport and Tourism.
After the meeting, Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said that the meeting was quite satisfactory and all pending issues were likely to be resolved in the next 5-6 months. Rawat later left for Dehradun.