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The opposition parties in Telangana might be castigating the BRS government of being mired in corruption but the state has witnessed a significant progress in the creation of assets in the last eight years.
According to a report in an English daily, at the time of formation of Telangana in 2014, the government had buildings in a total of 60 lakh square feet. In the next eight years, it has increased to 2.30 crore sq. ft.
The new Secretariat complex alone accounts for about 8.50 lakh sq.ft. In addition, new integrated district collectorate complexes, educational institutions and hospitals have been constructed in various districts leading to huge asset creation.
As per the Telangana Socio-Economic Survey 2023 which was tabled during the Budget session of the Assembly held recently, the state stands second in the country after Goa if all states are taken into consideration and is at No.1 if only major states are considered, in terms of per capita development expenditure for creating assets.
KCR’s decision to increase the districts from 10 to 33 led to construction of integrated district collectorate complexes in every district. The state-of-the-art police command control centre in Hyderabad and new Secretariat resulted in creation of assets of over 40 lakh sq. ft.
Many of these projects are being executed by the roads and buildings department. The state government has spent Rs. 617 crore to construct the Secretariat in 8.50 lakh sq.ft, Rs. 585 crore for construction of 5.06 lakh sq.ft police command control centre, Rs. 1,600 crore for construction of integrated district collectorate complexes totalling to 32 lakh sq.ft.
Apart from these, IT minister K.T. Rama Rao’s initiative to build the largest incubator ‘T-Hub 2.0’ in Hyderabad and to expand the IT sector to tier-II cities by building IT Towers has resulted in creation of assets of 10,68,850 sq.ft.
While T-Hub 2.0 was built at a cost of nearly Rs. 400 crore with a built up area of 5.83 lakh sq.ft, construction of IT towers in eight districts resulted in asset creation of 4,85,850 sq.ft. New IT Towers have come up in Warangal, Khammam, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Siddipet, Nalgonda and Adilabad.
In Warangal, a 24-storey hospital building called The Health City is being built at a cost of Rs. 1,200 crore, creating an asset of 16.5 lakh sq.ft. Also, KCR inaugurated Banjara Bhavan built covering 61,544 sq.ft and an Adivasi Bhavan of 82,009 sq.ft built at a cost of Rs. 25 crore each in Banjara Hills last September.
Establishing a medical college with a hospital attached to it in every district headquarters has resulted in asset creation of a further 32 lakh sq.ft. The construction of three TIMS (Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences) hospitals at three locations in the city at a cost of Rs. 2,000 crore, will create assets of 41 lakh sq.ft. TIMS hospitals are coming up at Alwal, Gaddiannaram and Erragadda at a cost of nearly Rs. 900 crore each with 1,000 beds and built-up area of 13.71 lakh square feet each.
The BRS government completed the long-pending MLA and MLC quarters in Hyderabad in 2019. Around 120 apartments of 2,400 sq.ft have resulted in asset creation of 2.88 lakh sq.ft. The decision to build camp offices for MLAs in all the 119 constituencies contributed to an additional 4.23 lakh sqft.
Also, the state government constructed the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project spending nearly Rs 1 lakh crore and completed Mission Bhagiratha at a cost of Rs. 35,000 crore.
