Our Governance will be in tune with the needs of the people: Governor Tamilsai Soundararajan

Telangana:Hyderabad:March 06: The Governor of Telangana addressed the joint session of state legislature today and and stated that under the visionary and dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao  state has  been moving forward with perfect planning, sincerity and commitment, eversince he took over the reigns of State six years ago.

She said not long ago before this government took over  entire farm sector was in distress .Farmers used to suffer due to non-supply of quality seed, fertilisers and pesticides on time and the problem was more severe with sale and supply of spurious seeds, adulterated fertilisers and fake pesticides. Farmers had to struggle a lot to get investment to cultivate their crop. Owing to non-completion of the irrigation projects, there was no availability of water for agriculture.  With all these problems prevailing in the farm sector in Telangana, agriculture was regarded as a loss making and waste profession.

This  Government made every step forward with proper planning to pull up the farm sector from the crisis and instill confidence and hope among farmers. The Government is supplying quality seeds, fertilizers and pesticides on time to the farmers as per their requirements. Stringent action is being taken under the Preventive Detention Act (PD Act) against those indulging in supply of spurious seeds, adulterated fertilizers and fake pesticides. With 24-hour uninterrupted power supply, farmers are able to bring their entire land under cultivation and deriving higher crop yields.

With an  aim to provide water for irrigation to one crore acres, prepared and implementing a comprehensive irrigation plan. Water is supplied to 20 lakh acres of the ayacut by completing the pending projects. Tanks are revived under Mission Kakatiya program. Due to this, the ground water levels have been raised enormously. The world’s largest multi-staged lift irrigation project, Kaleshwaram, is under stage-wise completion. The fast track works that are going on there are visible to all.

The Government has increased pension for persons with disability from Rs.500/- to Rs.3,016/-. Though there are lakhs of Beedi workers in the country, the pensions are given to Beedi workers @ Rs.2,016/- per month in Telangana State only. Under Kalyana Laxmi / Shaadi Mubarak schemes, Government is giving Rs.1,00,116/- towards expenses for the eligible girl’s marriage.

To revive, revitalize and strengthen the rural economy, my Government gave the required financial stimulus to the hereditary professions and artisans. The  Government is extending Rs.6 lakh financial help to the families of farmers, who have committed suicide.

Nutritious meal is given to pregnant women, women in postnatal period and babies, at Anganwadi Centres under Aarogya Lakshmi Scheme.A Special fund is created for the welfare of Lawyers and Journalists.Power up to 101 units is given free of cost to SCs & STs. This  Government had waived Rs.70 crore worth power dues of STs under the domestic category. All the power related vigilance cases registered against the tribes were withdrawn.

In the welfare sector, Telangana State stands first among all other states in the country. It is a good augury that the poor in the State are moving forward to future with lot of hope and confidence.

Successes in Power Sector was specially mentioned,  In spite of all time high demand, power was supplied without any interruption and this itself is an evidentiary tall proof of our glorious success in power sector. Now, uninterrupted, quality power is supplied 24X7 hours for all sectors in the State. The  installed capacity now in the State is 16,246 Megawatts. Construction of new power plants is on fast track to make Telangana a power surplus State.

The Rythu Bandhu Scheme conceived and implemented in Telangana is now being replicated in several States as it has been a progressive turning point that changes the destiny of farmer. Now through Rythu Bandhu, Government is giving Rs.10,000/- per acre per year in two installments as investment support.

In Telangana the public health scenario has improved significantly. The Government now created 40 Dialysis Units, 20 ICUs, 305 Standardized Labor Rooms in Government hospitals. 200 Ammavodi vehicles to bring pregnant women to the hospitals and 50 Paramapada Vehicles to transport the dead bodies are also provided. All these endeavors are proved to be very beneficial to the poor.

The Government had brought new urban policy and new rural policy to increase accountability among the public representatives and to activate the local bodies. Government enacted new Municipalities Act and new Panchayat Raj Act. The Government is moving forward to convert the villages and towns in Telangana as model villages and model towns in the country.  Pattana Pragathi program with an objective to convert Telangana towns as model towns in the country was organized till 4th of this month. In addition to clean and green activities, plans for systematic growth of towns were formulated in the Pattana Pragathi program.

The measures taken by Government to make Telangana as the ideal destination and Paradise for investments have been yielding good results. The  State got Rs.2.4 lakh crore worth investments. 14 lakh additional employment has been generated. The IT exports were Rs.57,000 crore in 2013-14. They were increased to Rs.1.09 lakh crore in 2018-19.  During the last year the average growth rate in IT exports in the country was 8.9 percent on an average, whereas, in Telangana it was 16.89 per cent.

The governance will be in tune with the needs of the people, duly striking a healthy balance between welfare and development. This is the precise reason why the people have been continuously supporting my Government time and again in all democratic methods. The Government will keep up the immense faith reposed by the people and move forward keeping in view the needs of people and the circumstances that may crop up time to time.