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T seeks spl status
Telangana Seeks Special Status, The Telangana Assembly session, which was adjourned sine die on Saturday, passed 10 key resolutions.
- Centre must rescind Polavaram ordinance
- Special category status sought for Telangana
- `25 lakh each for Everesters Purna, Arun & their coach
- Extend 33% quota for Backward Classes in legislatures
- Extension of similar quota for women also needed
- Central government must set up BC Welfare Ministry
- Create separate High Courts for Telangana and AP
- Singareni employees should get I-T exemption
- Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia for kin of students who drowned in Himachal Pradesh
- Construction of Telangana Martyrs Memorial
Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly session, which was adjourned sine die on Saturday, passed 10 key resolutions, including one opposing the ordinance on transfer of more than 200 villages in seven mandals in Khammam district to Andhra Pradesh. They face submergence due to the Polavaram project.
A resolution demanded special category status to Telangana state on the lines of the one for Andhra Pradesh. The House passed a resolution congratulating Malavath Purna and Anand Kumar who climbed the Mt Everest. The government announced a prize money of Rs 25 lakh each and another Rs 25 lakh for the coach.
Pitching for 33 per cent reservation for women and BCs in legislative bodies, the House passed a resolution and urged the Centre to create ministry for BC welfare. Two resolutions sought division of the High Court into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh High Courts and extension income tax exemption for employees working in Singareni Collieries. Other resolutions were on Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia for students who drowned in Beas River and construction of Telangana Martyrs Memorial.
Only the resolution on Polavaram witnessed some opposition from the TDP benches. The TDP was of the view that the Assembly should discuss the issue in detail before passing any resolution.
Turning down the proposal, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the decision to alter the geographical boundaries without seeking the consent of the State Assembly was against the spirit of the Constitution. The tribal communities inhabiting the submerged villages would lose their identity and also their livelihood. Besides, the Telangana State would lose the Lower Sileru project being taken up at Polavaram project following the merger of the villages with Andhra Pradesh. The Chief Minister said that the design of the Polavaram project should be altered so as to protect the interests of the tribal villages that are being affected in Telangana and also Odisha and Chhattisgarh states which raised serious objections over the project’s design.
