Hyderabad city has to be decongested: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, while addressing a daylong workshop titled ‘Reinventing Telangana’ organised by the state government at MCRHRD Institute, which was attended by ministers, senior civil servants, collectors, joint collectors and other officials, joked about the pain of going to weddings in Hyderabad.

“Hyderabad has to be decongested and regulated. It’s a punishment to go to marriages in Hyderabad. The traffic is choked. There is waterlogging right in front of the CM’s residence at Begumpet and the Governor’s bungalow in Somajiguda,” he said.

Justifying the drive against illegal constructions and encroachment of government lands in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana, Mr Rao said, “We will take action against illegal constructions and encroachment of government lands. A section of media is critical of it, I ignore them.

There are 58,000 illegal constructions in Hyderabad right under the nose of the Secretariat, the seat of administration. We will ensure zero political corruption and I will not spare even my kith and kin…. I will send land grabbers, encroachers to jail.”

The new Telangana agenda also known as ‘KCR Vision’ for the next five years includes includes putting an end to reclamation of Hussainsagar, revival of Musi development apart from setting up a dumping ground in each village and a common cremation ground called Vaikunta Dhamam to perform for last rites, in all the mandals.

Telangana Agenda: Other plans

• Planning from village, mandal, district and state levels.
• Every irrigation project to have two mandatory components- water for drinking and industries
• New laws, new acts, policies and programmes in the context of Telangana and no way connected to Andhra Pradesh.
• Creating brand image for Telangana.
• New industrial policy to attract investors.
• Create employment opportunities for youth.
• Optimal utilisation of government land to the tune of 35 lakh acres.
• To priority for Dalits, STs, BCs and minorities.
• Raise forest cover from the present 25.1 per cent to 33 per cent by planting 230 crore sapling.
• Satellite township in 100-km radius.
• 2.20 lakh acres of land available for industries in all districts with about 5,000 acres each, but least in Warangal of 1,040 acres only.
• Training for all officials and elected representatives like sarpanches, MPPs, ZPTCs to MLCs, MLAs and MPs at APARD, NIRD and MCRHRD.
• Stringent action against irregularities in housing scheme and recover Rs 235 crore from swindlers.
• Weed out all bogus ration cards.
• Jail for culprits of housing and other scams.
• Telangana to be seed bowl of the country and the world.
• Field visit for officials and others to Israel and taking up area, product specific projects.
• Optimal utilisation of 1,200 tmc ft of Krishna and Godavari waters.
• Revival of all 500 defunct lakes, tanks in Hyderabad besides other districts.
• Rejuvenation of minor tanks and utilisation of Rs 1,000 crore NREGA funds.
• Short, medium and long term plan for power.