Modi-KCR Meet: CM Submits 10 Issues Memoranda

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence on Friday. The meeting lasted about an hour and KCR said to have submitted memoranda stating ten issues and discussed particularly on the ongoing row between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana about sharing of Krishna waters.

The letters shared with Modi are review of IPS cadre, integrated state of art textile park (requested Modi to give Rs 1,000 crore as one time grant in aid for the Warangal Textile Park), additional funds for the state under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), T’gana roads works in LWE affected areas, sanction of IIIT at Karimnagar, development of Hyderabad-Nagpur Industrial corridor and a few others.

CM also requested the Centre to sanction 21 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in view of the increased number of districts. KCR, who left for Delhi on Sept 1, laid the foundation stone for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi building at Vasant Vihar on Thursday and he is currently on an extended tour to New Delhi. In next few days, CM is also likely to meet union home minister Amit Shah and others.