KCR completes 100 days in power on Tuesday. The 60-year-old has emerged as a speaker who knows his audience and talks the common man
Telangana people expected a lot from the new government, and thought that their lives would soon change for good in the coming days. With 100 days of KCR Government in power, lot of decisions have been taken and most of the moves were made in the right direction, but few of them seemed controversial to the media and other states. Altogether, 100 days of KCR Government comes across as a mixed baggage.
The implementation of the scheme to waive farm loans as promised by his Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in its election manifesto. Waiver of Rs 1 lakh loan to about 40 lakh farmers costing Rs 18,000 crores.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has not accepted to reschedule the loans of all the districts in Telangana. According to latest information Telangana Government is waiving the loans at its own risk, the scheme however is already being implemented in Medak and Ranga Reddy districts, and the process of information gathering is going on in the remaining eight districts.
CM KCR inaugurated his much touted scheme of distribution of three acres of land to Dalits by giving pattas to 48 Dalits who came from 10 districts on August 15th. About three lakh Dalit families of a total of 11.92 lakhs (15.44% of Telangana population) will get three acres of land and development schemes tagged to it. A survey is already going on to identify beneficiaries.
Government needs thousands of acres to distribute land to Dalit families, KCR had a plan and ordered district collectors to identify encroached lands belonging to the government and submit a report.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has ordered a CID inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Indiramma Housing scheme for the poor, -- launched during the Congress regime between 2004 and 2014 -- disclosing that Rs 235 crores was found to have been misappropriated in the weaker sections' housing scheme in Telangana
A random survey revealed that Rs 235 crores was misused in 593 villages. 'Preliminary survey shows the total number of households in Telangana is 84 lakhs, records showed that 55 lakh houses were constructed so far, with the houses and beneficiaries only to be seen on paper.
This is meant only for actual Telangana students. Telangana Government wants to ensure that the benefits reach the actual Telangana students.
Telangana FAST is an initiative to enable poor and eligible students pursue higher studies in Universities and the Institutions regulated by the Government. FAST shall be made applicable to all the students pursuing ongoing studies, fresh admissions, and whose parents were bonafide residents of the Telangana State as on 01-11-1956. It is meant to come into force from the current academic year 2014-15.
A recent government survey had revealed that over 17,513 acres of government land worth Rs 3 lakh crores in Ranga Reddy district was encroached upon. The government of Telangana is trying to recover all the encroached upon lands back.
Over the last few days, the media, politicians ,and common people have been discussing land encroachment cases in Hyderabad and its surroundings.
Telangana government had conducted a massive household survey across the state last month to ascertain comprehensive information on citizens, an exercise which attracted all sectors of Telangana people.
23 lakh cards have been issued in excess of the existing households. Where is this rice and other ration going?
1.07 crore ration cards were issued in Telangana whereas the total number of households was just 84 lakh. As many as 91 lakh white ration cards (for below poverty line families) were issued, besides 1.5 lakh Antyodaya cards and 15 lakh pink cards. In all, 23 lakh cards have been issued in excess of the existing households. Where is this rice and other ration going?
There will be a single-window clearance system to make the process of granting clearances easy, which will be headed by the CS and other senior officials.
Chasing Cell in CM office will ensure that within a week all the application papers are scrutinized and final approval is accorded. Once the final approval is ready, the investor will be invited back, and the set of clearances will be given to him personally by the CM. No other State in India today follows such an efficient, fast track, and transparent system.
This is to check the political corruption, no minister will be involved in this process. CM KCR announced that
I will not spare even my family members involved in political corruption and will not hesitate to send them to jail."
Over 12 lakh acres were being irrigated under 36,000 tanks in Telangana before 1956.Experts should see that all those tanks are revived again and are put to use. 60% of farmers in Telangana were depending on minor irrigation sources for irrigating their lands. Now the Government has taken up the minor irrigation tanks construction as a major project so that there is no shortage of water for irrigation in the rural areas of Telangana.
The decision to have the celebrations at Golconda Fort is part of the historical reconstruction of Telangana. The whole world was looking forward for the first Independence Day celebrations in the Telangana State and the occasion should reflect the history, culture, and tradition of the region.
Sania Mirza was appointed as the Brand Ambassador of Telangana. She will promote the new 'state's interests' in India and abroad.
The historic monument, which is the main attraction for tourists along with Charminar, has largely been neglected for decades and suffered extensive damage due to land-grabbing, illegal encroachments and vandalism, but now, it appears to be heading for better times.
For the first time since the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, KCR and Chandrababu Naidu met for business on 17th August 2014 at 12' noon in the Raj Bhavan, to find amicable solutions to contentious issues.
Villages and mandal headquarters in Telangana districts are reeling under severe load-shedding, and in some places there was no power for more than 12-hours. As a result many small and medium entrepreneurs are closing down their units. Lack of transmission connectivity with northern and western grids has made it impossible for them to purchase power from other states.
The one and only happy thing for KCR is that in the 2014 election campaign he had openly expressed his view on power crisis, and said that it will solved in 3 years of time.
Even after the formation of Telangana we are still hearing farmer suicides, the reason behind this is that KCR had announced loan waiver scheme to the farmers who got loans from banks only, but 10% of Telangana farmers are tenant farmers, they got loans from private people and the government does not maintain records of tenant farmers.
According to the TRS manifesto, Telangana Government had passed GO to regularize contract employees of Telangana. Osmania University students and opposition parties staged dharna's and rallies against the Government decision.
Appointing Sania Mirza as Brand Ambassador
The funny thing is that it was not the people of Telangana who had a problem with the survey, but the politicians of the opposition parties. BJP and TDP tried to stop the survey and create confusion over survey.
Andhra politicians also questioned this survey to protect Seemandhra people who are staying in Hyderabad, but the survey's aim was not to find out who belongs to Andhra or Telangana, and there was no column related to nativity of family.
Politicians tried their best to stop the survey, but they failed and survey was successfully completed, and all the people of Telangana participated in survey.
One thing that will change for sure is that we will have control over our resources, jobs, and education. But, that has to be only the beginning. Other policies have to be visualized and projected.
Although 100 days is a small period to talk about what the government has done but the period is certainly enough to give you a sneak peak into the future, and thus one can easily say, that things have begun well but there are still things far from done.
Overall, the first hundred days have seen a positive change in the pace and quality of governance.
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