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MIM demands 5,000 crore for Old City
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi on Friday demanded that the government announce a Rs 5,000-crore special package for development of Old City in Hyderabad.
​Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi on Friday demanded that the government announce a Rs 5,000-crore special package for development of Old City in Hyderabad.
Participating in the discussion on budget in the State assembly on Friday, Akbaruddin Owaisi said that former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had agreed to provide Rs 2,000 crore for the development of the Old City in 2006.
Even those works which were initiated were stopped half-way due to non-release of funds by the then Congress government in the united AP. "I urge the government to complete these unfinished works at the earliest," he demanded.
The MIM leader urged the Chief Minister to increase the budget allocation for minorities' welfare to Rs 1,500 crore. Responding to this request, KCR announced that the allocation would be increased to Rs 1,500 crore in the revised estimates for 2017-18.
Akbaruddin further demanded that a separate DSC be conducted for the recruitment of Urdu teachers, the AIMIM leader pointed out that when the current financial year is coming to an end, funds meant for providing pre- and post-metric scholarships have so far not been released.
He also complained that despite adequate availability of power in the state, there were unscheduled power cuts in the Old City and other parts of Hyderabad due to the inadequate number of sub-stations, transformers and transmission and supply lines. "Since summer has set in, the demand for power is poised to go up substantially in the coming weeks.
I would request the Government to direct the Discoms to ensure uninterrupted 24/7 water supply to the twin cities of Hyderabad-Secunderabad," he said.
Akbaruddin said that the state government has not been releasing the allocated funds to the GHMC in the last three years. In 2014-15, the government had allocated Rs 376 crore for GHMC in the budget but released only Rs 259 crore. In 2015-16, Rs 58 crore was released against budgetary allocation of Rs 378 crore.
In the current year, 2016-17, only Rs 69 crore was provided for the GHMC in the budget but nothing has been released so far, with hardly a fortnight left for closure of the financial year.
Akbaruddin Owaisi asked the Chief Minister to declare the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyothiba Phule on April 11 as a state holiday on the lines of the holidays on the birth anniversaries of Babu Jagjivan Ram and Dr B R Ambedkar on April 5 and 14 respectively every year. He also urged the government to set up a statue of Mahatma Phule in the city.
