Gentlemen's Agreement of 1956
The agreement provided safeguards with the purpose of preventing discrimination against Telangana by the government of Andhra Pradesh.
[1] The Gentlemen's agreement of Andhra Pradesh has a precedent in the Sri Bagh Pact of 1937 which was between the leaders of Rayalaseema and Coastal Telugu speaking districts of Madras State to provide assurances for Rayalaseema in return for their willingness to join Andhra State.
[2] Hyderabad Chief minister in his letter to the Congress President said that Communist parties supported the merger for their political calculations.
[4] [5] To convince the leadership of Telangana to join the new state, an agreement was reached between the leaders of both sides on 20 February 1956.
In respect of specified matters proposals may also be made by the Regional Committee to the State Government for legislation or with regard to the question of general policy not involving any financial commitments other than expenditure of a routine and incidental character.
B. Domicile Rules : Telangana is regarded as a unit as far as recruitment to subordinate services is concerned; posts borne on the cadre of these services may be reserved for being filled up by persons who satisfy the domicile conditions as prescribed under the existing Hyderabad Mulki Rules.
Should, however, any retrenchment be found necessary, the entire personnel of the services of the enlarged State will be treated on equal footing.
Since, however, it has been agreed to the representatives of Andhra and Telangana that the expenditure of the new state on central and general administration should be borne proportionately by the two regions and the balance of income should be reserved for expenditure on the development of Telangana area, it is open to the state government to act in accordance with the terms of agreement in making budgetary allocations.
The Government of India propose to invite the attention of the Chief Minister of Andhra to this particular understanding and to express the hope that it will be implemented.
