PM Narendra Modi should apologize to the youth of Telangana for scrapping ITIR: Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao | Hyderabad News – Times of India

Hyderabad: Terming the Centre’s statement on scrapping ITIR (Information Technology Investment Zone) for Hyderabad as shameful, Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao Told BJP The government should approve a project or package to Telangana as compensation for the cancellation of the ITIR project.
KTR demanded PM Narendra Modi One must apologize for failing to fulfill the promises made to the youth of Telangana and what has been given to Telangana instead of ITIR. The IT Minister said that the BJP has no proper policy for skill and employment generation in the country. Telangana IT minister demanded, “Prime Minister Modi should explain the loss caused to Hyderabad due to scrapping of ITIR project.”
KTR, in a statement on Friday, criticized the announcement in Parliament on Friday by the junior minister of electronics and information technology, Rajiv Chandrasekhar, saying that the ITIR for Hyderabad is a closed chapter.
KTR said the ITIR project has been postponed because TRS is politically opposing the Modi government and the Center is doing cheap politics.
“The BJP government at the Center claims to have allowed other projects which are tantamount to compensation for the ITIR project. Lying easily about anything is in their DNA and now Rajiv Chandrashekhar has done it. The Center has once again betrayed the people of the country.
The UPA government proposed the ITIR project in 2008 and approved it in 2013. later chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao And KTR made several representations to revive the ITIR project.
He also erred in the Center saying that ITIR was scrapped as Telangana was later cleared of smart cities and industrial corridors. “It is not true that ITIRs were scrapped in lieu of other non-IT projects. Telangana did not even benefit from the schemes that the Center claimed to have expanded and did not get a single penny for the T Hub It is,” KTR said.
He also said that BJP ruled states like UP and Gujarat have received huge funds under various central schemes. But when it comes to Telangana, every penny counts and is shown as a reason for canceling projects. KTR, who is also working president of TRS, said that recently the Center has sanctioned software parks to UP, MP, Gujarat, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Punjab, Jharkhand, Kerala. Then why didn’t Telangana get it too?, KTR asked.