Center Not Supporting Telangana In Its Growth: Alleged KTR

Hyderabad: Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, IT and Industries, K.Tarak Rama Rao alleged that the BJP-led Central government is not supporting the Telangana state in its growth. He claimed that India would have achieved the targeted 5 trillion economies by 2022 if all Indian States grew at the same pace as Telangana.

Speaking at the annual CII event on “Beyond India@75 – accelerating Telangana Growth Momentum Resilience through Competitiveness, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, he said the Hyderabad Pharma City, which will be the largest pharma manufacturing cluster in the world, did not receive any support from the Center. The State has also been denied a bulk drugs manufacturing cluster, other manufacturing clusters, industrial corridors, and others. Even though a special incentive was promised in the AP Reorganisation Act, nothing has been given to both the Telugu State of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, he said.

As part of his strategy to criticize the BJP-led Central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he alleged though India is a democratic country, not all states are treated equally, each state is diverse and that diversity should be respected. KTR urged the Centre to offer incentives to performing States. He sarcastically said that the BJP government is dictating terms to the people what to eat and what to wear, “He questioned, Who are we to tell people? “

Bringing out all his anger against the Central government, he said “Make in India” is good, it has not progressed much beyond slogans, he said that the Center should empower performing States with incentives. Many still feel that importing from China works out cheaper rather than making locally despite the import costs, distance, and other factors. “Praising China, ” he said “we need to ask ourselves why making in China is cheaper.

Seeing the audience KTR felt happy and said that his BRS will come to power again and reiterated that Telangana has set a target of taking the life sciences sector value to about $250 billion, more than tripling from the current $80 billion by 2030. The State now makes 35 percent (about nine billion doses) of all vaccines made globally. This number will increase to 50 billion (14 billion doses) by the end of next year. Telangana also has 214 USFDA-approved manufacturing facilities, the highest in the world. Rama Rao said adding that Telangana is expanding the Genome Valley and Medical Devices Park further. The Pharma City has the potential to create employment opportunities for five lakh people. (Maxim News)

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