The planning department of the State has been directed to identify key inter-State and regional issues that require deliberations at the SZC meeting while the other departments have been instructed to prepare a list of pending issues so that inter-State issues can be put on fast track mode. Senior officials are however sceptical about the outcome of the SZC meetings as the resolution of pending issues has been relatively slow. Officials say that the focus of the previous meetings was on resolving the issues connected to the Central Government rather than issues pertaining to individual States. While the issues raised by Telangana in the past have been deliberated in the meetings of the standing committee, they were subsequently dropped. The Centre’s intervention for the speedy resolution of pending issues will go a long way in helping the States focus on issues which need immediate attention.