CM seeks sanction for 21 Navodaya Vidyalayas

Rao brought to the notice of Modi that Telangana currently had nine Navodaya Vidyalayas in Ranga Reddy, Asifabad, Warangal (Urban), Nagarkurnool, Nalgonda, Siddipet, Khammam, Karimnagar and Kamareddy, which were sanctioned by the Centre earlier as per its policy of one Navodaya Vidyalaya for one district, when Telangana had 10 districts.

With the increase in districts to 33 now, Rao said 21 districts in Telangana lacked Navodaya Vidyalayas and sought sanctioning of the same.

Rao informed Modi that the Telangana government was developing world-class integrated Kakatiya Textile Park in Warangal over an extent of 2,000 acres. He said `1,600 crore was required to develop infrastructure facilities and sought `1,000 crore grant from the Centre.

The Chief Minister urged Modi to instruct the ministry of education to take steps to establish Tribal University in Telangana as mandated under AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, for which 200 acres was already identified near Warangal.

Rao reminded the Centre's policy of establishing one IIM in each state but no IIM had been sanctioned for Telangana on the ground that there was Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad. The Chief Minister said ISB was a private institution and ordinary students could not afford to study in ISB due to exorbitant tuition fee etc. He offered to provide land to IIM on University of Hyderabad campus as more than 2,000 acres was available on the campus allotted by the state government. Rao sought establishment of an IIIT in Karimnagar under PPP model as per the Centre's policy to set up IIITs in each state.

He also urged Modi for upgradation of 4,000 km roads in rural areas from 3.75 metres lane to

5.5 metres bituminous pavement under PMGSY.

Apart from seeking to bear entire burden of laying roads in Naxalaffected areas instead of asking states to share at the ratio of 60:40 with the Centre, the Chief Minister also requested additional funds under PMGSY to improve road connectivity in the backward areas of Telangana as mandated in the AP Reorganisation Act,

2014.

The Chief Minister urged Modi to sanction Hyderabad-Nagpur and WarangalHyderabadindustrial corridors on the lines of Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor to give a fillip to industrial development and employment generation in less developed region of the country.