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Hyderabad to become safer, smarter, slum-free
The Telangana government aims to make Hyderabad a safer, smarter and slum-free city and in its maiden budget presented on Wednesday it made allocations for various components of this goal.
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Hyderabad: The Telangana government aims to make Hyderabad a safer, smarter and slum-free city and in its maiden budget presented on Wednesday it made allocations for various components of this goal.
Finance Minister E Rajender in his budget speech in the Assembly said the first and foremost priority was to make the city safe and crime-free.
The government has already released Rs 350 crore for building a rapid response system capable of reaching any troubled spot within a maximum time of 10 minutes in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
He allocated Rs 70 crore for installation of CCTV surveillance systems in Hyderabad and Cyberabad police Commissionerates. Another Rs 20 crore has been proposed in 2014-15 budget to make the police stations citizen-friendly.
The Minister proposed Rs.31.41 crore for technology backbone for citizen centric traffic management and for fighting organised crime.
For the construction of barracks and camping centres, Rs 45 crore has been proposed for the Cyberabad Commissionerate.
The budget proposed Rs 250 crore for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for taking up slum-free city programme. The government will provide Rs 416 crore as loans to Hyderabad Metro Rail.
It allocated Rs 581 crore for improvement of water supply in slum areas of Hyderabad and for Krishna and Godavari water supply schemes and sewerage improvement. The government allocated Rs 90 crore for Hyderabad Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR).
Stating that Hyderabad with its metropolitan culture and a salubrious climate was already on the radar of global investors, the Finance Minister said there was an imperative to invest in the improvement of infrastructure in Hyderabad to retain its attractiveness.
Voicing concern over lack of momentum in the growth of industry sector, the Minister said there was negative growth of industry sector in Telangana by 0.9 percent in 2012-13. Though growth marginally picked up to 2.7 percent in 2013-14, it remained much below the desired level.
He told the Assembly that the government was in the process of unveiling most attractive, effective and investor-friendly industrial policy.
A chasing cell will be established with the task of monitoring industrial approvals on day-to-day basis.
It is proposed to establish a land bank with about five lakh acres of government land suitable for location of industries. Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) will provide water and electricity in this land.
For this, an amount of Rs 100 crore is proposed in the budget.
Rajender noted that the growth of the State economy witnessed a sharp fall from an average of 10.5 percent during 2005-10 to 4.5 percent in 2012-13 owing to marked deceleration in the growth of industrial sector.
Top cops express happiness over budget allocations
Hyderabad: The top echelons of police welcomed the maiden budget presented by Telangana government on Wednesday which aimed to make Hyderabad a safer, smarter and slum-free city. It outlined a slew of measures for safety of citizens, rapid response system, modernisations of police stations, traffic management and installation of CCTV cameras.
Finance Minister E Rajender in his budget speech in the assembly said the first and foremost priority is to make the city safe and crime-free.
The government has already released Rs 350 crore for building a rapid response system capable of reaching any trouble spot within a maximum time of ten minutes in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
Responding on the budget allocation to The Hans India, Cyberabad Police Commissioner, C V Anand said, “It is the first time in the history of the police department that ample funds were allocated. It is growth-oriented and inclusive.”
Terming it as well-conceived budget, Additional CP (Traffic) Jitender said it was more than the last year's outlay.
Modernisation of police communication infrastructure, construction of police stations, residential quarters, outpost complexes, compound walls and barracks at police stations would be patterned on the lines of metropolitan police force in New York and London and the budget provisions would be quite helpful in the complete makeover, a senior police officer of Hyderabad Commissionerate said.
