CM meets PM with demands
Seeks more IPS officers for state, likely to call on Shah today
Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, who is on a visit to Delhi since September 1, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence on Friday evening. The Chief Minister arrived at Modi’s residence at 5 pm and left at 5.50 pm.
In his 50-minute-long meeting with the Prime Minister, Rao submitted a charter of 10 demands. He met Modi after a gap of nearly nine months. He last met Modi in Delhi on December 12 last year.
Rao is likely to meet Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday.
The wish list submitted by the Chief Minister to Modi includes review of IPS cadre to Telangana by allotting more IPS officers keeping in view the increase in districts from 10 to 33, onetime grant-in-aid of `1,000 crore for Warangal Textile Park, development of Hyderabad-Nagpur industrial corridor, setting up of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in new districts, additional funds for PMGSY to lay roads in rural areas, funds to lay roads in LWE (left wing extremism) affected areas, upgradation of PMGSY, sanction of IIIT in Karimnagar, establishment of IIM in Hyderabad and establishment of Tribal University. Rao sought increase in IPS cadre from the existing 139 to 195 stating that prior to the creation of new districts in Telangana, there were just 9 police districts and 2 police commissionerates in Telangana, which have now been increased to 20 police
districts and 9 police commissionerates and to head these new districts and commissionerates, there was an urgent need to allot more IPS officers.