HYDERABAD:
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will meet Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday afternoon with a list of demands.
While many of the demands have already been taken up with the Centre, including with the prime minister on earlier occasions, Chandrasekhar Rao will mainly impress on Modi to approve new administrative zones planned for the state. Unless the Centre gives its nod for this, the zonal system cannot be implemented for primarily making appointments in government jobs.
On Friday, the chief minister met Union law minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad and reiterated the demand for bifurcation of the High Court. He was accompanied by Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar.
Chandrasekhar Rao will also take up the matter of High Court bifurcation with the prime minister during the meeting with him.
Chandrasekhar Rao will place before the prime minister a request for sanctioning central funds for the Kaleshwaram project and approval of defence land for construction of secretariat. It may be mentioned here that the chief minister has floated the idea of constructing a new secretariat at Bison Polo Grounds in Secunderabad. The defence ministry has not been keen to part with the premises and land near it for the purpose.
The chief minister will also ask for constitutional amendment to allow states to provide for reservations as they deem fit. Chandrasekhar Rao had promised 12 per cent reservations for Muslims and also increase in SC/ST reservations which will take the total reservations percentage to more than 50.
KCR will urge the prime minister to release funds meant for development of backward districts, sanction a IIIT in Karimnagar, and opening of Jawahar Navodaya schools in new districts.
In Delhi, Nizamabad MP Kavitha met Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar with mid-day meal workers and urged that their allowances be increased.
