“Many people in Andhra Pradesh are asking (us) to implement the schemes being implemented in their state in Telangana. People from other states want Telangana scheme and (are) are also requesting to merge their areas with Telangana. Raichur (Karnataka) BJP MLA has asked to replicate the plans of Telangana in his constituency. Chandrashekhar Rao said during his speech at the plenary session of TRS hitex on Monday.
A video of BJP MLA, Shivraj Patil, saying in a meeting that progress would be made if Raichur would be merged with Telangana, recently went viral on social media platforms.
In the United AP, a Congress leader had predicted that Telangana would plunge into darkness if given a separate state. “Now, Telangana’s per capita electricity consumption tops the country. AP is not providing 24×7 electricity to the agriculture sector, but Telangana has achieved it. AP’s per capita income is now Rs 1,70,000 crore, while that of Telangana is Rs 2,30,000 crore. The per capita income of Telangana is among the top states in the country,” KCR said.
Stating that he dared to dream and strive to fulfill them, the CM said that the state government has completed all pending irrigation projects like Kalvakurti. nettampadu and other projects in Mahbubnagar apart from redesigning few other projects. “Earlier, people used to migrate to Mumbai or Dubai, now reverse migration has started and people from Bihar and Jharkhand are coming to the state to work as hamali,” he said.
Elaborating on his experience in Delhi, KCR said: “When I went to Delhi to attend a meeting, the CM of another state asked me how I would manage funds to implement schemes like Dalit Bandhu. I am doing…Telangana had registered a growth of 11.5% last year. The state witnessed a 90-day lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” KCR said. “I told him that in the next seven years,” the chief minister said. Telangana’s budget will reach Rs 4,28,000 crore and Rs 23 lakh crore will be spent on various schemes.
He said that due to record production of paddy, rice mills in the state are not able to carry out the milling activities. “There have always been negative forces in the state and have been trying to stop development activities,” he said.
“Hundreds of cases were registered against irrigation projects, construction of secretariat buildings etc. But, we won and successfully got the desired results.”
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