Telangana CM Revanth urges PM Modi to transfer 2,450 acres defence land to state

HYDERABAD: Telangana Chief minister A Revanth Reddy urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to transfer 2,450 acres of defence land to Telangana govt for road expansion, infrastructure facilities and other public purposes in Greater Hyderabad. In lieu of the land, the state govt, he said, would transfer the state govt land 2,462 acres, to Research Centre Imarat permanently, which is on lease.
The CM along with deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka met the PM Narendra Modi on Friday with a list of 12 requests on the issues like allocation of coal blocks to Singareni, sanctioning houses, steel plant, IIM, revival of Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR), backward region grants and other issues.Ahead of the full union budget to be presented, the CM asked for sanction of houses under PM Awas Yojana and include Telangana in the semiconductor mission.
The CM said some defence lands are required for construction of two elevated corridors Hyderabad-Karimnagar and Hyderabad-Nagpur (national highways 44).
As the Centre has decided to auction coal blocks in various states and one coal block at Sravanpally included in it, Revanth Reddy urged the PM to allocate coal blocks directly as it is a Telangana public sector undertaking (PSU) with 51% share to Telangana and 49% of the share to the Centre and remove Sravanpally from the auction list and allocate other blocks like Koyyagudem block-3, Sathupally block 3 for the power generation requirements of Telangana.
Revanth Reddy said while it is the policy of the Centre to have one IIM in each state, but IIM has not been sanctioned to Telangana and urged to sanction the institute. “There is sufficient land available in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and ready to provide alternate land also,” the CM said.
Asking Narendra Modi to include Telangana in the India semiconductor mission, the CM said many companies are keen on establishing semiconductor firms in Hyderabad and are under consideration with the India semiconductor mission. On housing issues, Revanth asked the Centre to sanction 25 lakh houses under PM Awas Yojana in the next five years. Earlier Telangana got very less number of houses allocation as the state did not fit in the guidelines.
Telangana CM asked for revival of ITIR project for Hyderabad, which was announced by the UPA govt at the Centre in 2010 for both Hyderabad and Bangalore. “The state govt earlier had identified land in three clusters in new IT companies and IT space developers,” the CM said.
On the promises made to Telangana in the AP Reorganisation Act, the CM said instead of Integrated Rail Coach Factory promised at Kazipet, the Centre announced periodical overhauling workshop, but many other places got coach factories. He urged the PM to sanction a coach factory to Kazipet in the state and also a steel plant at Bayyaram. Similarly backward region grant fund (BGRF) to the state was released for only two years and has not been released for the past three years and is pending now to the tune of Rs 1,800 crore.
He also asked for finalisation of tenders for the proposed regional ring road, developing national highways in place of state highways and sanction of 24 new Navodaya schools in every district.