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Telangana: Centre treating Telangana like enemy nation, our giant IT leap defies apathy: KT Rama Rao | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: Stating that Telangana made a giant leap in all sectors, particularly IT and industries defying Centre’s apathy, IT minister KT Rama Rao on Friday demanded the Centre table a white paper on its Rs 20 lakh-crore package to revive the Covid-hit economy. “Not even 20,000 people benefited from the package. How have SMEs and MSMEs benefited,” he asked.
KTR alleged the Centre was treating Telangana like an enemy country and was not extending cooperation or keeping promises. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi behaved like the PM of Gujarat and diverted all projects to his home state. His ‘Sab Ka Vikas‘ slogan is actually ‘Sab Bakwas and Satyanash‘,” KTR told the Assembly.
The Centre sold 163 public sector undertakings in eight years and over nine lakh employees lost jobs, he added. “While two people sold PSUs, two crony capitalists acquired them. Our policy is start-up, BJP’s policy is pack-up,” the minister quipped.
In his two-hour speech on IT, industries and municipal administration in the Assembly, KTR said statistical data is proof of Telangana’s industrial growth in eight years.
The minister said due to Telangana government’s efforts, particularly incentives, good law and order and inherent talent, the state surpassed Bengaluru in eight years. “According to the NASSCOM report of June, 2022, of 4.5 lakh IT jobs created in the country, 1.5 lakh were in Hyderabad and 1.4 lakh in Bengaluru. While the average national IT growth was 19%, Telangana clocked 26%. The number of IT employees in Telangana in 2014 was 3.23 lakh, and now it’s risen to 8.7 lakh,” said KTR.
Attributing the flood of investments to Telangana government’s vibrant policies and CM K Chandrasekhar Rao’s vision, he said, “With a data centre policy, the state bagged 72,000 crore investments with Amazon alone investing 36,000 crore and Microsoft putting in 32,000 crore.” The TSiPASS industrial scheme drew 3.3 lakh crore investments since 2014 and 22 lakh jobs were created.
Emphasising that the tech sector was being expanded to Tier-II towns, KTR said, IT towers will come up in Kompally, Malakpet, Ramagundam and Wanaparthy, while taking strong objection to BJP MLA Eatala Rajender and Congress MLA D Sridhar Babu’s comments of decline in information technology and investment region (ITIR) in Telangana. “If we did not develop ITIR, why did BJP-ruled Karnataka too fail to bag the scheme,” he asked.
KTR alleged the Centre was treating Telangana like an enemy country and was not extending cooperation or keeping promises. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi behaved like the PM of Gujarat and diverted all projects to his home state. His ‘Sab Ka Vikas‘ slogan is actually ‘Sab Bakwas and Satyanash‘,” KTR told the Assembly.
The Centre sold 163 public sector undertakings in eight years and over nine lakh employees lost jobs, he added. “While two people sold PSUs, two crony capitalists acquired them. Our policy is start-up, BJP’s policy is pack-up,” the minister quipped.
In his two-hour speech on IT, industries and municipal administration in the Assembly, KTR said statistical data is proof of Telangana’s industrial growth in eight years.
The minister said due to Telangana government’s efforts, particularly incentives, good law and order and inherent talent, the state surpassed Bengaluru in eight years. “According to the NASSCOM report of June, 2022, of 4.5 lakh IT jobs created in the country, 1.5 lakh were in Hyderabad and 1.4 lakh in Bengaluru. While the average national IT growth was 19%, Telangana clocked 26%. The number of IT employees in Telangana in 2014 was 3.23 lakh, and now it’s risen to 8.7 lakh,” said KTR.
Attributing the flood of investments to Telangana government’s vibrant policies and CM K Chandrasekhar Rao’s vision, he said, “With a data centre policy, the state bagged 72,000 crore investments with Amazon alone investing 36,000 crore and Microsoft putting in 32,000 crore.” The TSiPASS industrial scheme drew 3.3 lakh crore investments since 2014 and 22 lakh jobs were created.
Emphasising that the tech sector was being expanded to Tier-II towns, KTR said, IT towers will come up in Kompally, Malakpet, Ramagundam and Wanaparthy, while taking strong objection to BJP MLA Eatala Rajender and Congress MLA D Sridhar Babu’s comments of decline in information technology and investment region (ITIR) in Telangana. “If we did not develop ITIR, why did BJP-ruled Karnataka too fail to bag the scheme,” he asked.
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