Pollution, Irrigation Project and Employment Key Issues in Undivided RR District
HYDERABAD: The undivided Rangareddy district is known as the economic engine of Telangana state due to the presence of several multinational companies, industries, industrial parks, an international airport, Outer Ring Road, and an IT corridor.
The real estate boom in the district is also fetching the government crores of rupees due to rapid industrialisation and urbanisation.
However, land acquisition for development projects, employment to locals, Regional Ring Road, Hyderabad Pharma City, pollution on account of pharma, chemical companies and stone crushing units and incomplete Palamur-Rangareddy project are some of the key issues that will figure in the election campaign.
The BRS has to tackle resentment among locals over land acquisition for the Hyderabad Pharma Project, with farmers protesting against the government acquiring 14,000 acres and locals raising concerns over the pollution the Pharma City may cause, even as the state government has assured of no pollution due to planned world-class effluent treatment plants in the project.
Protests are also going on demanding the government not sanction fresh licences to stone-crushing units after the lease period has expired, citing heavy dust pollution in surrounding areas.
Locals are angry that their farmlands were acquired for big companies and industries that promised employment preference but are currently employing more non-locals.
Residents are upset with the BRS government for not completing the Palamur-Rangareddy lift irrigation project even after laying the foundation nearly eight years ago, in June 2015. They are angry at the BRS government for redesigning the Pranahitha-Chevella project as the Kaleshwaram project and excluding the Rangareddy region from it.
Protests are also going on against land acquisition for the Regional Ring Road project.
The BRS is claiming to have developed the Rangareddy district industrially and economically in the past nine years, resulting in the creation of wealth for people in the district due to the realty boom.
Opposition parties are highlighting the failures of the state government in completing the Palamur RR project, supporting people against land acquisition for various projects and fighting against the state government offering meagre compensation for lands.
