Help develop Telangana State projects: Laxman pleads with Centre

Hyderabad: Telangana unit of the BJP has appealed to the Centre to extend its help in taking up various development projects and establishing educational institutions in the state.

A delegation, led by BJP state president Dr K Laxman, during his recent visit to Delhi, has submitted nine representations to the Union ministers highlighting different development works needed to be taken up in Telangana.

Giving details of the same, Dr Laxman said the issues were highlighted and brought to the notice of the party national working president Jagat Prasakh Nadda on various proposed development projects.

The delegation in its representation to Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Jairam Gadkari urged him to declare as national highway, the existing state highway from Kalwakurthy (NH167) in Telangana to Karivena (NH340C) in AP by constructing a bridge across river Krishna at Somasila.

Six-laning of NH-44 from Bowenpally to Medchal via Kompally, allocation of funds for the development of Hyderabad-Chevella-Parigi-Bijapur National Highway, a Dry Port through the Godavari and Krishna rivers are some of other requests made to the Centre by the deleagation.

Similarly, the delegation requested Minister of Railways and Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal to take steps for the construction of broad-gauge railway line connecting Jadcharla in Telangana with Nandyala (182 Kms) in Andhra Pradesh.

Also, laying of a broad-gauge railway line connecting Gadwal in Telangana with Macherla in Andhra Pradesh, besides introduction of new trains in Telangana such as Anthyodaya, Tejas, Hamsafar and Uday.

In another representation to Union Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shakar Prasad, the BJP delegation asked for increasing the sanctioned strength of judges of the High Court of Telangana. Similarly, they urged the Minister of independent charge for Tourism and Culture to develop the Buddhist Centre in the state as part of the Buddhist Circuit.

That apart, they sought the intervention of Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to sanction an Aviation University in Hyderabad, and requested Environment, Forests & Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar for allotment of more budget for utilization of services of the Forest Research Institute at Bahadurpally in Medchal district.

The State BJP leaders also sought Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's help in the construction of flyovers from Secunderabad to Suchitra/ Kompally and Secunderabad to Tumkunta via Alwal by ceding part of the Defence land.

Likewise, Union Human Resources Development Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishak was requested for establishing a Tribal University, IIM, increasing the number of Navodaya Schools and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) in Telangana.

The delegation in a representation briefed Union Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah on the Intermediate results fiasco in the state and consequent suicide of 27 innocent students.

They sought his intervention and urged him to advise the state government on taking necessary action against the officials concerned.