hyderabad a year since the threeday world telugu conference wtc at tirupati in december resolved to constitute a separate telugu ministry besides reviving the telugu sahitya and sangeeta academy all resolutions have been put on the backburner owing to issues surrounding the division of the state the telugu ministry was supposed to be established by ugadi this march all languagerelated institutes including the officials language commission was to be brought under one umbrella however some institutes are refusing to be part of the telugu ministry telugu university and telugu academy under the higher education department did not accept the proposal mooted for the telugu ministry as we come under the higher education ministry we get funds but the new move will make it difficult for us to get funds professor yadagari the telugu academy director said the telugu university has a similar grouse sources from the both the institutes said an effort to merge their institutes with the culture department had failed in the past government is not in a position to go ahead as there are lot of bottlenecks said officials resurgence of the near defunct telugu sahitya akademi the sangeeta akademy and the lalita kala academies were other important resolutions which were taken up at the wtc conference last year these are all delaying tactics if the government is serious about extending support to art and language these proposals would have materialised long time ago ramesh babu a telugu language activist said also confusion prevails over setting up of a classical language centre at madhapur art gallery the culture department was ready to allocate 10000 square feet of land with its own building it however went back on its word the state higher education department recently stepped in to allocate the required infrastructure we informed the central higher education ministry that we are ready to allocate land to them we can even show them alternate sites other than the one at madhapur ajay misra principal secretary higher education department said