(Tribune)
Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have decided to sort out their pending issues of division of assets and liabilities in a time-bound manner. This was decided at a meeting of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat with his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath at Lucknow today. Trivendra Singh Rawat met UP Chief Minister Adityanath at his residence and discussed programmes and policies initiated by recently elected BJP governments in both the states. Both CMs also discussed the pending issues of divisions of assets and liabilities between the two states for the past 16 years and agreed to resolve these issues in a time bound manner.It was decided to prepare a complete note with opinion of both the states on various issues followed by a meeting of Chief Secretaries of both the states.
Both the Chief Ministers decided that on issues where there is consensus would be resolved by the Chief Secretaries but in case of dispute ministers of respective departments of both the states would take a decision. On issues which would remain pending, the Chief Ministers would take a final decision and even ask the Union Government to arbitrate and the decision of the Central Government would be final and binding on both the states.
