HYDERABAD: During its first year in office, the Congress government placed special focus on development of Hyderabad.
According to sources, the government took up complete overhauling and re-imagining of the city to meet climate crisis challenges and ensure sustainable growth for next 50 years.
Creation of HYDRAA has led to restoration of lakes, with all encroachments stopped completely after over 40 years. The Musi rejuvenation was given priority after over 50 years of neglect of the polluted and dying river, they added.
The government also took up the project to install world’s largest Mahatma Gandhi statue at Bapu Ghat more than a 200-acre Sarovar being created as Gandhian pilgrimage in Hyderabad, they further said.
The government sources also said: “Future City master plan is in final stages. The fourth city, besides Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Cyberabad, will India’s most modern future-ready city.”
“Chief Minister works 18 hours a day, without a single day leave, constantly interacting with people and listening to problems and suggestions, taking feedback with humility to improve quality of governance, balancing welfare and development, deftly managing finances of a state destroyed by previous BRS government with over Rs 7,00,000 crore debt, is the reason people know that Telangana is now truly the Future State.”
THINGS TO BOAST ABOUT
India’s first comprehensive, industry-led Skill University established
South India’s biggest Sports University on the anvil
Replacing all petrol, diesel buses in Hyderabad with 3,000-plus electric buses
Diet and cosmetic budget for students of residential institutions increased after 10 years of neglect
Loans and support for women’s self-help groups and entrepreneurs to create one crore ‘Mahila Koteeswarulu’
Caste survey for comprehensive review of policies and allocations
Integration of residential schools world-class facilities and new campuses across state for Dalit, tribal, OBC and minority students
Dharani portal handed over to National Informatics Centre for complete overhaul
Start of Regional Ring Road and Ring Rail projects
Start of Metro Rail expansion
Industrial parks and manufacturing-focused growth in Tier-2 cities
Massive development projects in ‘second capital’ Warangal
400,000 units sanctioned under Indiramma housing scheme
Universal healthcare at Rs 10 lakh per person in Telangana under Rajiv Aarogyasri
More than half a million public grievances addressed during Praja Vani programmes