‘Repay runam to KCR’ to be TRS’ slogan for 2019 polls

‘Focus on urban Telangana’ to transform Hyd in 3 years

‘KCR Runam Theerchukundaam (Repay debt to KCR)’ will be the main slogan for the TRS for the upcoming Assembly elections.

With indications of early polls, party sources said TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had zeroed in on urging the people to ‘Repay debt to KCR’ as a campaign strategy to highlight how the TRS government’s initiatives in education, health, irrigation, agriculture, industries, power sectors over four years had improved the quality of lives of crores of people.

The TRS wants to project that the people are indebted to Mr Rao for achieving the 60-year old dream of statehood apart from a slew of development and welfare programmes, including 24x7 power to the entire state, round the clock free power to farmers and launching irrigation projects like Kaleshwaram.

The TRS wants to project that the people are indebted to Mr Rao.

Special focus and attention is required to develop corporations in the state during the next three years. Roads, parks, tanks, drainage, canals etc are to be developed. There is no dearth of funds. `55,000 crore will be allocated for this. Works are to be carried accordingly. — K. CHANDRASKHAR RAO, Chief Minister

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said `45,000 crore would be spent for the development of Hyderabad in the next three years at the rate of `15,000 crore per year to transform Hyderabad into a global city.

Mr Rao announced that the ‘Focus on urban Telangana’ initiative will be taken up on a mission mode for the next three years. Another `10,000 crore will be spent on other municipal corporations, the CM said. The CM instructed officials to prepare an action plan for taking up of development works with `55,000 crore in the coming three years in Hyderabad and other cities.

Mr Rao was speaking at a review meeting on development programmes and infrastructure facilities in the state on Saturday at Pragathi Bhavan.

Minister K.T. Rama Rao, principal secretary Arvind Kumar, commissioner T.K. Sreedevi and the Mayors of Hyderabad, Warangal, Khammam, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Ramagundam were present in the meeting.

“Special focus and attention is required to develop corporations in the state during the next three years. Roads, parks, tanks, drainage, canals etc are to be developed. There is no dearth of funds. `55,000 crore will be allocated for this. Works are to be carried accordingly,” Mr Rao told the officials.

Mr Rao asked officials to act tough against illegal layouts and regularising them should be done away with. The reservoirs of Gandipet, Himayatsagar and Hussainsagar are to be filled with Godavari water, Mr Rao said.

He said care should be taken that the drainage water will not flow into tanks.