INITIATIVES AND DECISIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA AT A GLANCE : Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao

INITIATIVES AND DECISIONS OF

GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA

AT A GLANCE

Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao 

·      Welfare Programmes: Income limit of beneficiaries enhanced…Aasara pensions…Pension for Beedi workers…Kalyana Laxmi and Shadi Mubarak….Apathbandhu for sunstroke victims….Rs 5 lakhs ex gratia amount to each those died in natural calamities…..Water tap connection in the Municipalities for a payment of one rupee….Enhanced subsidy for Economic Support Schemes….and many more….Fine rice for hostel students….Six KGs rice scheme

 ·        Agriculture-Farmers’ Welfare: Loan waiver….Timely supply of seeds and fertilizer….Sada Bainama benefiting 11 lakh persons….Crop insurance with village and mandal as a unit….Insurance coverage to the rain fed crops…appointment of 1311 Agriculture officers….Rs 1300 Crore spent on Micro Irrigation….75 per cent subsidy to the Green Houses….Rs 420 crores for farm mechanization…Establishment of Horticulture University….Revival of Ramagundam Fertilizers Unit…..Establishment of Horticulture Corporation,  Food Processing Centre, Forest College and three new modern agriculture polytechnics… Input subsidy….Rs 9.5 Crore to Sorghum farmers….construction of Godowns…..Interest-free loans to farmers….provision of meals in market yards at Rs 5 per person….Hiked wages for Hamalis in the market Yards…nine hours continuous power supply to the Agriculture sector…..Reservations in the Market Committees….Telangana State to be made as the seed Hub…..Several sops for the workers in the Market Yards….Rs 6 lakh as an ex gratia amount to each farmer who committed suicide

 ·        Welfare programmes for Journalists, Lawyers etc: Rs 100 Crores to the Journalists….Rs 100 Crore budgetary allocations for Lawyers….Waiver of Transport tax for Autos and trolleys….Rs 100 Crore allocation for the poor Brahmin Welfare…. Rs 10 lakh and one job for Each Telangana Martyr family…Housing scheme for journalists, Drivers, Home Guards….Rs 5 lakh insurance coverage to the Construction labor…. Rs 5 lakh accident insurance coverage for Toddy Tappers and fishermen

• ·        Women and Child Welfare: Deepam Scheme….Anganwadi workers salaries enhanced….Arogya Laxmi-Nutritional diet….Rs 10 lakh interest free loan under Stree Nidhi….SHE Teams….Mission Women Protection

• ·        SC/ST welfare: Overseas scholarship for SC/ST Students….Concessions for SC/ST industrialists….SC/ST Sub Plan….ST Thandas upgraded as Gram Panchayats….Three acres of land for Dalits….125 Feet High Ambedkar Statue…Funds directly released to the SC/STs….Chellappa Commission was set up for the STs

• ·        Minority Welfare: 160 Residential Schools for the Minorities….Overseas scholarship for the minority students….Urdu as the first language option…Jobs in Minority Welfare department….Special Wakf Board for the Minorities….Sudhir Commission on Minorities status…Rs 1000 each per month for Imams and Mauzams

• ·        BC Welfare: BC Commission…119 Residential Schools for the BCs….Loan waiver for the power loom workers….Saloons brought under the domestic category in power consumption….Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule BC Overseas Scholarship scheme

• ·        Employees Welfare: Employees’ friendly government….43 per cent fitment given to the State Government employees….Unified service rules….Health Scheme for employees and journalists on par with the Central Government…Hiked the salaries of outsourced employees….Regularized the services of 776 residential school adhoc teachers….Ban on promotions and transfers lifted….Health cards for pensioners….Salaries of the employees in Metro Water Supply revised…Hike in the salaries of the contract residential teachers….Sakala Janula Samme period treated as a special, leave….Hike in the salaries of the Outsourcing employees….Regularization of contract employees….Hike in the salaries of employees working in MGNREG and SERP…Basha Pandits and Physical Education Teachers are given an opportunity to become School Assistants…90 days of Child care leave

• ·        Helping hand to RTC, Singareni and Power department: Hereditary (Dependent) employment in Singareni….23 per cent of profits to the employees and workers in Singareni….Rs 750 Crore given to the TSRTC, 44 per cent fitment to the employees…Special increment to the TSRTC employees….27.5 per cent fitment to the employees in the power sector….PRC for power employees

• ·        Greater Hyderabad: Hyderabad to become Global city…Swachh Hyderabad…Power dues of the poor waived in Hyderabad….Pattas given to 1,25,000 people through GO Number 58…..Water Cess waived for the poor…Full meals for Rs 5 only….Property tax decreased and exempted in Hyderabad….Own vehicles for the Drivers….Hiked salaries for the GHMC Employees….Reservoirs to come up at Rachakonda and Shameerpet….MoU Signed with CISCO to make Hyderabad a Smart City….Expressways around Hyderabad on all four sides….Metro Rail Project….A/C Metro Luxury Buses….. Re-organized Divisions (Wards)….Toddy shops revived

• ·        Irrigation: Mission Kakatiya and out of 46, 300 tanks about 18, 000 + tanks revived…..Comprehensive water utilisation plan in the State…Rs 25,000 crore allocated for Irrigation in the 2016-2017 State’s Budget….Plan to irrigate one Crore acres….Completion of the on-going projects….Repairs undertaken for SRSP Project….RDS-Karnataka: Projects redesign….Sriram Sagar project for Khammam….Rs 350 crore released for the revival of canals in Nalgonda district…MoU with Maharashtra state on Kaleshwaram project….Sri Seetarama project…Palamoor lift irrigation scheme….Dindi Lift Irrigation Scheme….Drinking water and water to the industries

• ·        Infrastructure: Telangana state is surplus in power….Power plant at Bhupalpally….Bhadradri…Long term, medium and short term plan for the power sector….Genco capacity increased….Mission Bhagiratha for supply of water to each and every household; by 2017 end 95% villages and towns to get water…..Haritha Haram massive tree plantation program

• ·        Road network (R&B and Panchayat Raj): Expansion of National Highways touching 4950 kilometers in all….formation of Telangana State Rural Road Development Corporation…..New road network formed….Bridges on streams, rivulets and Railway lines….Hyderabad Strategic Road Development Project….Manoharbad-Kothaplli railway line

• ·        Students Welfare: Fee reimbursement for the students….Scholarships for the poor students….Digital classes in schools….New educational institutions for Warangal…..Rs 104 Crore Educational Hub for Gajwel…..Aero University in Hyderabad…..Spice Board in Balakanda….Agriculture University in Warangal….Veterinary University in Mamoonur…..SC/ST/BC Study Circles…..Health University in Warangal…..Setting up of Medical Council……Tribal University in Warangal…..Sainik School in Warangal……Seven Central (KVS) schools…..Food and Science Technology College in Nizamabad

• ·        Health: Consolidation, stabilization and Standardization of health Sector….Improved health care under the government sector…..Four new specialty hospitals in Hyderabad….Shan Inactivated Polio Vaccine for total polio eradication….Urban Health centre upgraded as PHCs….Rs 5000-Rs 6000 per bed per month for maintenance….40 dialysis centers…..40 diagnostic centers

• ·        Industries: TS iPASS-Single window Industrial policy….With Rs 49463 Crores investment 2929 industrial clearances….195390 direct and three lakhs indirect employment potential….1138 units in production and 405 about to….Pharma City….NIMS at Zaheerabad….National Pharma Mission in Rangareddy District….Rs 250 crore Amusement Park….Sops on immoveable property….Textile Park at Warangal….Subsidies and concessions to the Realty Sector

• ·        Information Technology: TS No 1 in IT sector…..T Hub Incubator….T Bridge…..Rapid strides in IT sector….Plug and Play Industry Hubs…New IT policy

• ·        TSPSC formed for recruitment of more and more unemployed youth

• ·        Law and Order and the police: Hike in the salaries of Home Guards….Pollution allowance for the traffic police…Modernization of the police department….Task Force teams in the cities….New Building for the Hyderabad police Commissionerates….10 per cent of 2 BHK apartments for the police….Hike the expenditure of the police stations….Ex gratia amount increased for the police martyrs….12,000 police vacancies filled….Reserve Battalion in Kottagudem in Khammam district…Three year age relaxation given for the appointments in police department….five more police commissionerates

• ·        Panchayat Raj: Gram Jyothy….Our Village, Our Plan….Palle Pragati

 ·        Cultural Affairs, Sports and Tourism: Development of the Temples in the State….Vemulavada, Yadadri, Bhadradri….MMTS to Yadadri….Buddha’s centre at Nagarjuna Sagar….Official status to festivals of Telangana….Record set for Batukamma festival….Two days holidays for Ramzan, Bakrid and Christmas….Official state Emblem…..Doop, Deepam nyvedyam schemes…..Film Awards under Telangana name….State government gifted gold ornaments to the temples….Telangana Technical Council established…..Largest and the biggest National Flag hoisted….Telangana Formation day celebrated…..Women’s Day…..Birth and death days of Telangana famous personalities such as PV Narasimha Rao, Kaloji Narayan Rao, Dasaradhi Krishmacharya, Nawab Aliyavar Jung, J Eshwari Bai, G Venkata Swamy, Konda Laxman Bapuji, Komaram Bhim observed…..Prof Jayashankar name given to the Agriculture University…..Medaram jathara, Godavari, Krishna Pushkaras conducted…..Tourism policy released…..Doddi Kumuraiah Kuruma Memorial…..Banjara, STs Bhavans in Hyderabad….Brahman Bhavan for Archakas….Brahmin Sadan….Rs 10 crore for Christian Bhavan….Rs 5 crore guest House at Ajmer Darga….Rs 5 acres of land at Sabarimala…Kerala Bhavan in Telangana….Lingayat Bhavan at a cost of Rs 5 crore

 ·        Awards & Rewards: Express technology Award instituted by the Indian Express given to the State….National Award for the Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge….CNBC, Network 18 Award for the most promising State of the Year….Minister KTR as the Most Inspirational Icon of the Year….Scotch order of merit to the TAPSC….Mee Seva also bagged an award….India Today award for the comprehensive development…Promising State of the Year from the CNBC….KCR won Indian of the year under Popular category instituted by CNN IBN….Special award to the State for encouraging Solar and non-conventional energy…EODB Award.

• ·        Many more initiatives and implementations: 2BHK houses….Re-organization of the districts in to 31….New Divisions and Mandals…..Manavooru, Mana Kooragayalu….Cases withdrawn against the agitators during the T Movement….State Planning Commission formed….Land Acquisition Bill passed….New building (Pragati Bhavan complex and Janahita) for the CM’s Official residence and office…Comprehensive Citizens Survey (SKS)…Sops to Dubbaka….Tractors distributed for the youth… State GDP increased….Greater Warangal established….Increase in the Constituency Development Fund…Hike in the salaries of the local bodies’ representatives….Independence Day celebrated at Golconda Fort….Help to the footpath vendors….Pylon for martyrs built