Andhra Pradesh

‘Government neglected TU’

KAMAREDDY (NIZAMABAD): Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao accused the government of neglecting the Telangana University at Nizamabad resulting in its failure to get recognition from the University Grants Commission.

It is unfortunate that though Minister for Higher Education D. Srinivas is representing from the district the Telangana University didn’t get funds and posts, while two other varsities established at Rajahmundry and Kadapa along with this university got the recognition,” he said.

Addressing a well-attended public meeting (praja sadassu) conducted by his party on the weekly market here this evening, he said the sorry state of affairs indicated the inefficiency of Ministers from the district and the Government’s negligence.

Demanding that the Government declare Rs. 800 and Rs. 1,200 Minimum Support Prices per quintal of maize and paddy respectively, he called upon his party cadres not to allow MLAs and MPs of Congress into their villages until the demand was met. Dubbing the Rajasekhara Reddy Government as anti-Telangana and anti-farmer, Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao said the MSP for paddy might be declared only after the crop comes to market in the coastal region. By then, all farmers in the backward Telangana may dispose of their crop, he said.

Referring to the M.S. Swaminathan Commission recommendations, he said the commission’s suggestion to declare Rs. 200 MSP more for the paddy grown under wells and bore-wells than the crop raised in canal areas was genuine and justified.

He said Telangana will get liberated from all its woes only when it was bifurcated from the unified State. The backward region was meted out injustice in the fields of jobs, water and power in the last 50 years, he said adding that it would still be subjected to hardships if it continued in the State.

Earlier, TRS ideologue K. Jayasankar and irrigation expert Vidyasagar Rao spoke.

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