On June 2, Telangana will officially become India's 29th state

The Centre has fixed June 2 as the formation day for Telangana, the country’s 29th state. The Union home ministry is issuing a formal notification late Tuesday night announcing June 2 as the "appointed date" when the states of Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh formally come into existence, splitting the undivided state of Andhra Pradesh. The decision came after a meeting between home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and President Pranab Mukherjee late

on Tuesday evening.

In an effort to set in motion the process of fulfilling the promises in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, the home ministry sent a letter to all Central ministries telling them to kickstart work on various initiatives proposed for the development of Telangana and the successor state of Andhra. The Centre has decided to establish institutions of national importance in the successor state of Andhra Pradesh, that includes one IIT, one NIT, one IIM, one IISER, one Central university, one petroleum university, one agricultural university and one IIIT. The Centre will also establish one AIIMS-type super-specialty hospital- cum-teaching institution in Andhra, and one tribal university each in Telangana and the successor state of Andhra.

The civil aviation ministry must examine the feasibility of developing Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati airports to international standards, while the road transport ministry has to build enough connectivity between key locations in Seemandhra to

its new capital of Hyderabad. Further, a horticulture university, and a National Institute of Disaster Management has also been announced for the successor state of Andhra Pradesh.

Among other infrastructure proposed by the Centre for both states, a new major port has to be set up at Duggirajupatnam in Seemandhra region, which has to be completed in phases with the first phase due to be completed by 2018-end. The setting up of steel plants in Seemandhra region and Telangana and development of a greenfield crude oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Seemandhra are some of the other proposals which need to be examined by the concerned ministries.