Hyderabad, April 08: A delegation of senior TDP leaders from Telangana, including N Janardhan Reddy, K Srihari and S Venugopalachari, left for New Delhi on Wednesday carrying a 200-page report to be submitted to the Srikrishna committee. The delegation will appear before the committee on Thursday and place brief highlights of the report before them.
It is learnt that the T leaders have taken the help of several officials and collected data in regard to the money spent by successive governments in the Telangana region and development works they claim to have taken up there.
The TDP leaders explained how the development in terms of figures was not translated into reality. For instance, statistics indicate that even districts like Mahbubnagar and Adilabad were far ahead in economic development. The leaders are understood to have explained that the economic development was the result of entrepreneurs from other regions having set up their business here, but when it came to providing jobs to the local people, injustice was meted out to them.
Similarly, though there are several educational instituions including medical colleges in the region, they are patronised mostly by students from other regions.
Though two major rivers, the Krishna and Godavari, pass through the region, it is starved of water for irrigation due to geographical reasons and lack of projects. Most areas still depend on borewells and agricultural wells for water, the report is learnt to have said.
Meanwhile, party Rajya Sabha member M V Mysura Reddy submitted a report to the committee in his individual capacity claiming that several areas in Rayalaseema and Andhra regions were more backward than Telangana, and if a division has to take place then not two, but three or four states will have to be carved out.
———-Agencies