Telangana issue is it
too complicated? Can a different prioritizing give satisfactory solutions to
all the stake holders?
Do not miss to read the brief history of events at the end.
I started writing about Andra, initially highlighting some of its salient
features like its sweet language Telugu,
great dance form Kuchipudi , some of the very great
personalities the state and the language has given to the world [ because their
impact has been global] then I proceeded to write district wise. I have given the links to all
these blogs below.
Naturally I was equally aware of this obvious Telangana issue as well and I got a brief about Telangana
from some internet group in 2008 which is also given below.
But then I felt I must put aside all the known factors and get to look
into what and why so many people who were speaking the same language, sharing
everything common all of a sudden have been divided into two camps the
beneficiaries and losers.
Here in I am not trying to oversimplify the complexities knowing well
almost all spheres of life in general, more so matters pursued with political impetus,
are bound to be not only complex but also complicated. I also know that modern
day system inherently is evolving in such way everything is too complex , more
the complication and more complex somethings are , the merrier certain
professionals are, let me not get into the details of this.
Here I stopped and recollected what M. Scott Peck said, “Abandon the urge to simplify everything,
to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think
multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be
dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each
experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex”, what
John Zabat-Zinn said, "The little things? The little moments? They aren't
little”, what Jerry Brown expressed , “I see the world in very fluid,
contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry
I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not
happen."
As a staunch believer in
analyzing anything only with reference to contexts, rather than aimlessly
diverting through multiple escape channels like singing praise about past amities
and glories forgetting the present worries, doting out political or
ideological vindications to whatever has
happened, creating catchy collective sloganeering to sabotage
individual reasoning, resorting to street protests to seek media
publicity, or whipping up passions with all its ugly antics, arrogating myself to sit on judgment on all matters like TV
anchors or act like the feigning petty know-all newspaper or news channel
reporter etc but instead honestly wanted to sincerely evaluate the situation.
This coupled with an
unshakable optimist in me looking for the bright lights for illumination in
dark times; I ventured to look into this Telangana issue.
Sometimes disorders are
inevitable aspect of evolutionary trends that we can neither wish away nor can
we run away from them as Vita Sackville West says, "It isn't
that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged."
The divide is obvious
but what is the main factor or ingredient that troubles all the stakeholders in
this division, is it any real estate veneration for Hydrabad or Hydragood? [with
copious water resources] No, then what it is?
It is a national malady
promoted and perpetrated by all our rulers [I mean PMs] post independence ,
except for two brief periods of P.V.Narasimha Rao and A.B. Vajpayee, lack of
overall development, especially total lack of development outside the cities.
If we look deep into it, many problems like slum dwellers, many problems of the
cities are the result of this lopsided growth or no economic development at all
outside the cities.
Whoever forms the next
government at the center hopefully must ensure to prioritize development of
places outside the cities and follow it up with performance to ensure success
and happiness then, only then, this country can progress. A sort of progress
which ensures that people everywhere in the country are happy , people
everywhere get good potable water, people everywhere get electricity [but pay
for it as no CM can authorize or reward the defaulters like some CM did
recently because it is a national resource not a CMs personal property], good
roads, better sanitation, hospitals, educational institutions, industrial and
agricultural growth leading to employment generation so that thousands of
people from UP, NORTH East etc need not migrate to Gujarat, Bangalore or
Chennai or Delhi or Mumbai for employment.
Gujarat has done
exceedingly well on this score and Tamilnadu and Maharastra to a certain extent
but all other states are lagging behind in this. I am not politically motivated
at all in this comment.
To me economics, like
many things in life, is all about unbiased observations, unprejudiced
perceptions, doing away with defensive statistical justifications, cutting off
camouflaging irrelevant logical fallacies, chaffing off bombastic jargons,
curtailing the instinct to churn out untested or untestable theories and
instead engage in interpretations of all the observed facts uninfluenced
by any ideological affiliations taking into consideration various factors that
impact and/or involved in these facts appropriate to the context and relevant
to the region.
This is where I would
like to share with everyone what I have read and enjoyed from the works of
Julian L.Simon, whom I rate as one among the many great economists.
Here are some parts with
summaries of some chapters of one of his work THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE culled from the internet
The
late Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about
scarcity of energy and natural resources, the effects of immigration, and the
'perils of overpopulation'.
"A professor
giving a lecture on energy declares that the world will perish in seven billion
years' time because the sun will
then burn out. One of the audiences becomes very agitated, and asks the
professor to repeat what he said, and then, completely reassured, heaves a sigh
of relief, 'Phew! I thought he said seven million years!'"
- Sauvy 1976
Our whole evolution up
to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of
behaviour, as well as patterns of training people for that behaviour, which
tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on
net balance, builders rather than destroyers. The evidence is clear: the
civilization which our ancestors have bequeathed to us contains more created
works than the civilization they were bequeathed. In short, humankind has evolved into
creators and problem solvers. Our constructive behaviour has counted for more
than our using-up and destructive behaviour, as seen in our increasing length
of life and richness of consumption. Julian L.Simon continues
..
Consider these
countries, and try to guess which one(s) is (are) rich and which poor: (1)
Landlocked, mountainous, almost no oil or metals or other extractive resources,
little flat farmland, high population density; (2) So flat and low that it is
in constant danger of being flooded by the ocean (which has happened many times
in its history), high population density, no natural resources; (3) Fastest
population growth rate, and largest rate of immigration, in the world in the
past half century, very high population density, no natural resources (not even
fresh water); (4) Low population density, huge stores of natural resources,
much fertile farmland.
In order the first three countries are Switzerland, Holland, and Hong Kong. The
fourth country might be most of the countries in Africa or South America. The
first three are among the richest and most economically vibrant countries on
Earth; many of the fourth group are dirt poor.
"Dr Paul Ehrlich
predicted that the ocean could be as dead as Lake Erie by 1979. Today Lake Erie
is palatable, and Dr Ehrlich still is not."
- PJ O'Rourke, "All The Trouble
In The World"
If Indians and
Americans exchanged countries, in a few decades the United States would look
like India now, and India like the United States.
The most important benefit of population size
and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds
matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths. In the long run
the basic forces influencing the state
of humanity and its progress are the number of people who are alive to consume,
but also to produce goods and knowledge; and the level of wealth.
Wealth is far more than assets such as houses and cars. The essence of wealth
is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth
depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge. A
wealthy world can find remedies for a new disease more quickly than can a poor
world, because the wealthy world possesses stocks of knowledge and skilled
persons. That's why wealthy groups live longer, with better health and fewer
accidental deaths.
It is a
proof of our extraordinary success in healing the Earth that the horrors of the
past which were transmitted by filthy air and water are no longer even thought
of as pollutants. Now that we have largely overcome humanity's historic enemies
- wild animals, hunger, epidemic disease, heat and cold - we worry about a
large new class of phenomena in the environment and society. This saying expresses
this idea: No food, one problem; plenty of food, many problems.
Some say 'If we have more children, when they
grow up there will be more adults who can push the nuclear button and kill
civilization'. True. More generally, as one writer reduced the matter to an
absurdity: 'All human problems can be solved by doing away with human beings'.
But to have more children grow up is also to have more people who can find ways
to avert catastrophe.
CONCLUSION
"Multitudes of people, necessity, and
liberty have begotten commerce in Holland."
- David Hume, "Of
the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences"
In that short sentence,
Hume summarized everything important about economic progress - economic
liberty, which comes from a country being 'ruled by laws rather than men,'
allows people to make the most of their individual talents and opportunities;
necessity - that is, in Holland's case, the lack of great stretches of fertile
land on which to grow crops easily, and therefore the necessity of creating new
fertile land by fighting the sea for that land; and multitudes of people - the
human talent to invent new ways of doing things and of organizing and effective
society.
Links to my blogs on Andra
Brief about Telangana from
some internet group in 2008 as to why Telangana way
back in 2008
Why TELANGANA?
Before to direct conflict I want to give some
brief introduction about our both region.
History and statistics of Telangana and
Andhra regions:
· It is yet to be established about the
point of origin of the Telugu language. Telugu
is a predominant language in Southern
part of India. Speakers of Telugu are
spread from Deccan region to the East
coast region of India.
· Hyderabad state had total 16
districts: 8 Telangana + 5 Marat Wada + 3 Kannada
speaking districts.
· Nizam dynasty ruled it from 1724 to
1948.
· Struggle against the king started
somewhere in 1943 and it reached new heights
after 17th August 1947 as king refused
to join the Indian union as he had an idea
of making it a part of Pakistan.
· Police action started on September
13th and on September 17th of 1948 Hyderabad
state became a part of Indian Union.
· Telangana saw its 1st elected
government of Boorgula Ramakrishna Rao in 1952,
the 4 years vacuum in government sector
was filled by people of Andhra region.
· Then started the MULKI struggle (mulk
stands for state in Urdu), GAIR MULKI
GO BACK was the slogan at that time. It
was a very simple but effective tactic
by the Govt of India to control the
people, officers from Andhra region were
placed to monitor the activities in
Telangana, for example police of Telangana
state was formed by constables from
Telangana region and officers from Andhra
region. I need not remind you how well
will our police department work and it is
the direct govt in many places.
Andhra Rastra creation and role of Sri
Potti Sri Ramulu Garu:
On 19th of October 1952 Sri Potti Sri
Ramulu Garu
started indefinite hunger strike for
separation of Telugu speaking people from Madras
presidency, on 29th October 1952 central
government has accepted for the separate state
formation for Andhra region,but some
political leaders raised the slogan separate state along with
Madras as its capital.These leaders
requested Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu to continue the hunger
strike untill madras as its capital.The
tamilians has refused to give madras as capital. He died on
15th December 1952 the 63rd day of
fasting and Delhi cleared the way for Andhra Rastra, and on
1st October 1953 Andhra Rastra was
created with Kurnool as capital. Later Andhra Pradesh was
formed by merging Telugu speaking areas
of Hyderabad State and Andhra State on November
1, 1956 under gentlemen’s Agreement.
STATE REORGANISATION COMMISSION (SRC)
1953:
There was a demand for language based
state in several parts of the country and so
among few Telugu speaking people of
south India.
SRC was commissioned by Delhi and was
headed by Supreme Court judge Fazal
Ali. He clearly mentioned that 8 Telugu
speaking districts of Hyderabad state should
be clubbed into a state called Telangana
and if interested in future its assembly must
vote with 2/3rd majority so that
Telangana can be a part of a United Telugu state.
He made points both for and against the
unification:
AGAINST unification:
1. It is not good to merge two regions
which are unequal in development
2. Andhra is in deficit budget and
Telangana is in surplus and there is every danger
of the surplus being used by deficit
region
3. People of Andhra are well versed with
English and telugu education if a state is
unified under telugu banner then
Telangana people will be the losers because for
generations telugu was not
administrative language (Urdu was the administrative
language here)
4. Telangana is a plateau region where
as the Andhra is plain and fertile utilization
of water resources will be unequal under
a unified state.
FOR unification:
1. Andhra region will benefit from the
infrastructure of Hyderabad and hence the
problem of their capital (read it as
capital in tents) will be solved.
2. Both regions can exchange food and
mineral resources so that there can be an
all around development. (now anyone can
easily verify what amount of
minerals Telangana lost to this unified
state but what amount of food it got in
return)
FORMATION OF ANDHRA PRADESH:
In 1956 C.M’s (chief ministers) of
Hyderabad(prently named as telangana nad named hyderabad
to its capital) and
Andhra Rastra met in Hyderabad, and
leaders from both regions participated in it.
ANDHRA leaders: Bejawada Gopal Reddy,
Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, Alluri
Satyanarayana Raju, Gautu Lacchnna
TELANGANA leaders: Boorgula Ramakirshna
Rao, konda Venkata Reddy, Marri
Chenna Reddy, J.V. Narsimhlu Both the
groups came to an agreement on the formation of state
and on 1st November 1956.
GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENT:
The main points of the treaty made
during unification:
1. If one region gets post of chief
minister then the other region has to get the
post of deputy chief minister and out of
ministries of home, finance, revenue,
trade, planning , industries any of the
two ministries should be given to
Telangana MLA’s. (as soon as Sanjeev
reddy of Andhra region became CM
of AP he abolished the post of Deputy
CM)
2. Prohibition of liquor consumption in
Andhra region but not in Telangana ( the
excise amount collected in Telangana was
used by AP but not Telangana)
3. Cost of administration should be in
ratio of 2:1 (Andhra: Telangana) (the
surplus of Telangana which was left by
Nizam was used by AP state)
4. Appointment for jobs on ratio of
population (now the qualifications were set
high which made the Urdu educated youth
as unqualified)
5. If there is a need to remove
government job holders then they should be
removed in equal ratio (if the
recruitment is not in a equal ratio don’t expect
the removal to be in equal ratio)
6. Residence of 12 years was compulsory
to get jobs. (which was brought down
to 4 years by agitation of JAI ANDHRA in
1970’s)
7. Andhra people should not buy lands of
Telangana farmers
(implementation of this point need not
be explained by me).
8. Cabinet allocation must be in ration
of 3:2(Andhra: Telangana) and a Muslim
from Telangana must be in the cabinet.
Thus Andhra Pradesh became 1st state
which formed on basis of language.
(Leaders made a mockery of democracy
don’t they know how things are run in a
democracy? Did they seek permission of
people from both the regions for the
unification? The attitude was similar to
Scottish noble men, in English we call it
Horse trading.
· The then P.M Jawaharlal Nehru on 5th
march 1955 while he was in tour of
Nizamabad district of Telangana state
was asked to comment on Andhra
Pradesh state, in reply he made a
statement “EK MASOOM BHOLI BHALI
LADKI KO EK NATKAT LADKE KE SAAT SHAADI
KIYA JAA RAHA HAI,
CHAHE TOH WOH MILKE REH SAKTE HAI YA
BICHAD SAKTE HAI”. We
need to know a bit poetry and politics
to understand this, he said an innocent girl
(Telangana) is being wed to a clever boy
(Andhra Rasthram) it is of their choice
to continue or to get separated. Here he
speaks about a plebiscite ie., a referendum
(people can vote yes or no in it). When
will government seek the decision by
direct vote?
The only two commonalities in between
these two regions is they speak Telugu and they
are all Indians. The story of
Rayalaseema was altogether different, after winning
Rayalaseema which was in hands of
different rulers Britishers included it in its madras
presidency.
Now let us try to look into things that
happened after independence.
· Nizam who remained here had no
political significance he feared the charges of
genocide and left to turkey with his
family, and what was left in Telangana was a
huge power vacuum.
· Andhra region was lucky enough as they
had a first hand experience of how
things will run in post independence
India because Indian union adopted the same
British democracy which Andhra people
were well acquaintance with.
· Local landlords of Telangana remained
intact as they were not talking of union
with Pakistan and Delhi did not feel
they were a threat to the union. Moreover as
the landlords had access to modern education
they realized the benefit of joining
the congress party. Now the people of
Telangana fell into the fire from the pan,
the new enemy was a part of the system
and any move against them will be
counted as an outlaw.
RIGHTS ON ASSETS:
· The whole story in India and even in
Telangana starts here, as it is free India now
everyone has equal right on assets. But
practically land lords were holding long
stretches of land and were reluctant to
give the rights.
Here the ruling party at the centre (I
need not name it) found a best way to solve
this problem the same old way of asking
and persuading which brought us freedom.
This might work in every other place but
will that work in Telangana?
The answer would be NO because we did
not beg for freedom, we SNATCHED it
from the oppressor and so will be the
case of lands, so began the struggle for the land.
That is why the Naxalbury movement on
1967 turned into an alternate solution for
the problems of land distribution in
Telangana, the state which should look after its
people once again stood by the oppressor
and crushed the people of Telangana.
Telangana Movement 1969:
This movement was raised by Marri Chenna
Reddy when kasu Bramhananda
Reddy was the then CM of AP, people
agitated fiercely and the new PM Inidra
Gandhi was observing the events (as what
Sonia Gandhi is doing now). Nearly
400 people (90% students) of Telangana
died.
In 1969 few points were made to ease the
tensions:
1. All the employees who got employment
against the rules shall be removed
( not implemented till date)
2. Action against those who got in with
JAALI certificates ( no action taken
against any such persons)
3. Extension of mulki rules to local
administration.
4. Seniority must be respected as per
the Supreme Court orders.
5. Funds siphoned from Telangana must be
given back ( ?????)
6. Increase the educational facilities
in Hyderabad (nothing from government
was established but we can feel the heat
of Andhra corporate colleges here
in Telangana now)
Telangana praja samiti party won 10 MP
(Member of Parliament) seats
but same old story of noble men,
treachery followed victory. All the winners
joined in congress and Chenna Reddy
became CM of AP and hence called off
the struggle.
You find statues of potti sriramulu all
over AP but all the 400 odd who died in
1969 Separate Telangana agitation did
not find place even in Government
records.
JAI ANDHRA movement:
Supreme Court of India denied to accept
the case filed by people of
Andhra region and solidified the MULKI
rules, then started Jai Andhra
movement and result was a death blow to
Telangana, the following decisions
were taken to ease the tensions:
1. All the mulki rules were quashed
2. Telangana regional committee was
cancelled
3. People started claiming Hyderabad as
FREE ZONE (it is written no
where in records about free zone)
4. Period of residence brought down from
12 to 4 years
5. Govt stopped maintaining separate
accounts for both the regions.
The Developments:
EDUCATION:
Andhra Rayalaseema Telangana
Junior colleges 266 138 176
Degree colleges 167 70 74
All kinds of schools 26,786 12,857
17,594
Teachers in schools 88,435 38,552 65,040
Literacy rate 39% 38% 30%
Amount spent on aided Junior colleges
(in crores) 17.4 7.73 2.63
Amount spent on aided Junior colleges
(in crores) from 1969 365 162 55
Amount spent on aided degree colleges
(in crores) 38.52 8.74 5.76
Amount spent on aided Junior colleges (in crores) from 1956
848 181 181
Primary schools (%) 48 23 29
Information as per 2001-02 government
records
At any point Telangana with its 10
districts is either given a status equal to or less than
Rayalaseema with 4 districts, now if you
compare with Andhra the picture will be
horrifying!
For every 1 lakh Andhra people and
70,000 Rayalaseema people there is a government
junior college and in Telangana for
every 6 lakhs students there is a government junior
college.
In case of govt degree college in both
the regions for every 1,75,000 students there is a
college and 3,75,000 Telangana students
have a college.
UNIVERSITIES:
Osmania was established by Nizam in 1918
so that cant be a credit of AP, now let us look
at the universities in AP:
Andhra+ Rayalaseema regions:
1. Nagarjuna University- Guntur : 1976
2. Srikrishna devaraya University-
Anantapur:1978
3. Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam
- Tirupathi : 1983
4. NTR University of Health Sciences –
Vijayawada : 1986
5. Dravida bhasa University-kuppam-2002
6. Vemana University- kadapa-2006
7. Raja Raja narendra University-rajamundry-2006
8. Andhra University-vishakapatnam-1925
(this cant be credited to independent
India)
9. Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha-
Tirupathi (Chittoor) -1985
10. Sri Vinkateswara Institute of
Medical Sciences (upgraded to medical university in
1995)
TELANGANA REGION:
1. National Institute of
Technology-warangal-1959
2. Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural
University –Hyderabad-1964
3. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University-Hyderabad-1972
4. The English & Foreign language
university-Hyderabad-upgraded to university in-1973
5. kakatiya University-warangal-1976
6. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open
university-Hyderabad- 1982
7. Potti Sreeramulu Telugu
University-Hyderabad-1985
8. Maulana Azad National Urdu
University-Hyderabad-1998
9. International Institute of
Information Technology-Hyderabad-1998
10. Telangana University-nizamabad-2006
11. mahatma Gandhi university-
Nalgonda-2006
University of Hyderabad was established
in 1974, it is similar to all other central
universities 80% of its seats should be
filled by local (Telangana students) as per the
initial rules but once again think
rationally in 1970’s you establish a central university
for P.G’s and further education what was
the basic qualification in Telangana at that
time? What was the political scene then?
Were people ready for it?
Result administration felt that seats
are not being filled, so they are now being filled by
people from all over India and other
regions of AP.
Many of the colleges in Telangana region
as you see are limited to Hyderabad and here
government calls that they lie in
Telangana but recruitment is done by treating them as
free zone colleges.
WATER RESOUCES
I would like to start with the Singur
Project on Mangeera River it was built to irrigate
the fields of Medak but it was used to
quench thirst of Hyderabad which is filled with
settlers. Why are they fetching water
from a Telangana district? And the Rs 250 crores
that was spent on this project was shown
to be spent on Telangana.When this question
was raised government brought Krishna
water to Hyderabad in a gigantic feat by laying
huge pipe lines. Are we not acting like Romans
by just taking care of capital and leaving
other places to their fate and when
their raise voice state uses police to crush their voices
NAGARJUNA SAGAR:
Built on: River Krishna.
Location: Nalgonda district. 21 villages
of Nalgonda got submerged.
Krishna will enter in Mahboobnagar and
69% of its path is in Telangana and 13% in
Andhra region and Rayalaseema 18%.
But Andhra uses 65% of its water, and
Rayalaseema uses 20% of its water.
Right canal and left canal of this dam
are supposed to provide equal water to Andhra and
Telangana regions respectively, now for
various reasons Andhra are getting water to
irrigate 20 lakhs acres and Telangana is
getting water for only for 5 lakh acres.
Thanks to K.L Rao, the designer of the
dam.
The result is the fields which are being
cultivated in Guntur are more than 10 Telangana
districts.
SRISAILAM DAM:
Built on: river Krishna
Location: Kurnool district of
Rayalaseema
Mahboobnagar which fell in the catchment
area of the dam lost 117 villages. 2 lakhs
people were made homeless, now I need
not talk about compensation it is similar all over
India 1st vacate them and they had to
leave it to fate and lead rest of their life in slums
Palamoor of Mahboobnagar got its name as
it was rich in cultivation and domestic
animals were very abundant. Now after
this dam was constructed the picture turned
upside down, after Orissa Palamoor is
the largest provider of Migrating labour.
Project Tungabhadra:
Built on: river Tungabhadra
Nizam started the project in 1948 and is
supposed to give 20TMC (Thousand Million
Cubic Feet) of water to Mahboobnagar,
but the canal which was to siphon water till
Mahboobnagar was stopped abruptly.
Rajolibanda diversion
Laid the last nail to the coffin to
irrigation in Mahboobnagar it is diverting all water to
Rayalaseema as you know how decent are
the leaders of Rayalaseema and their style of
handling democracy.
Bachawat tribunal awarded 17TMC
(Thousand Million Cubic Feet) of water to Jurala
project(on river Krishna) and 30 years
after the verdict the project capacity has been
reduced to 10 TMC and it is still on
hold as govt of AP is hesitating to pay 30crore
compensation to villages in Karnataka
and Palamoor is still starving.( government
recently started some work here in
agreement with Karnataka government and people
are full confident that it will stop for one
or the other reason)
GODAVARI WATER:
Of its entire path in AP Godavari flows
79% in Telangana and 21% in Andhra but
numbers change when it comes to
irrigation 10% of land in Telangana is irrigated and I
need not tell u about delta irrigation
of Andhra.
Pochampad project of Nizamabad which was
stared 35 years ago got rechristened as
SRSP (Sri Ram Sagar Project) and it is
still waiting for some or the other work to be
done. Gutpa Lift irrigation is yet to
function fully. But Telugu Ganga of Andhra region
which was stated 13 years ago is completed
and is functioning well.
INDUSTRIES
1. Azam jahi mills-Warangal,
2. Osmania chemicals,
3. Nizam sugars-Nizamabad,
4. Taj glass factory-Hyderabad,
5. Praga tools-Hyderabad,
6. Sirpur paper mills- Adilabad,
7. Singareni Collieries-Adilabad, Karimnagar,
Khammam
8. Hyderabad asbestos
Are they sounding something like they
were brought by settlers who claim that
they bought investments? Andhra
districts had just rice mills before independence, now
by the grace of AP people of Telangana
lost what they have. All the companies that I
mentioned above are evidences of rich
and varied industrial strength of Telangana region
which are no more.
Let us take a look at the statistics
about concessions(subsidies) and number of labourers.
Andhra Rayalaseema Telangana
Electricity (subsidies) 60% 7.5% 12.5%
Agro based industries 54 23 23
National bank loans(%) 54 16 30
Industries 6000 750 1250
Workers (lakhs) 2.56 0.30 0.95
Daily labours(lakhs) 3.16 0.70 0.81
This clearly shows the step motherly treatment
of government of AP towards Telangana.
The industries were spread in all
districts when it was under nizam but now industries are
located in Hyderabad, whole Rangareddy
district is Walloped by Greater Hyderabad,
Medak which has highest number of
chemical factories is chocking of pollution, and all
the other districts are still waiting
for industries to come. All the industries of Nizam
which gave people of Telangana a great
opportunity are now dwindling due to lack of
support or else this can be put in this
way that AP govt left them to grow older decay and
die.
JOBS
610 GO (Government Order):
The then CM N.T. Rama Rao on 30th
December 1985 issued G.O number 610 to correct
the mistakes in allocation of jobs from
1975 to 1985. Its main function was to transfer the
Andhra employees to their region and
Telangana people will be given jobs in that vacated
places. And 31st march 1986 was dead
line for its implementation.
High lights of 610 G.O:
1. All job holders filled in contrast
with the rules must be sent back by 31st march
1986.
2. All non gazette cadre employees
appointed under Jurala, Srisailam ,Sri ram Sagar
projects should be transferred to their
zones.
3. Strict action against those who
turned to mal practices
4. All appeals regarding this issues
must be solved by 31st march 1986
5. All appointments that took place
after presidential order must be corrected by 31st
march 1986
As per 1986 calculations 59,000 such
jobs were given to non locals in Telangana region
and no discrepancies in Rayalaseema and
Andhra regions.
Now what is the solution as per 610 G.O?
Simple and straight the jobs of non
locals increased to 2,50,000 + in 20 years of
time after 1986.
I don’t know why great legendary C.M’s
words are not implemented?
How will be the implementation of GO 610
is possible, the orders are implemented by
secretariat, by this time you might have
understood which region people work in
secretariat. Over a period of time
people of Telangana were not given jobs only for the
reason that they cant read and write
proper telugu!
Apply a bit rationality 224 years of
Urdu rule and all of a sudden you ask us to
compete with Andhra region. Is this a
way a people’s govt deal with its people?
QUESTIONS HOUR:
The questions regarding Hyderabad:
“Hyderabad is developed by us (said by
Andhra people)”
I feel puzzled when I hear this sentence
from few
(under educated) youth , once again into
the history when the great floods of 1900’s
ravaged away the Hyderabad, Nizam
ordered engineers to design the city in a proper
way the result was moksha gundam
vishveshwarayya the legendary civil engineer
designed the city with good sanitary
system with well lined drainages canals to
discharge the downpour etc., the city
was constructed for growing population on
calculated basis (ask a civil engineer
you will know how this can be done ).
Now the only aberration here is the
addition of 13 more districts to Telangana
districts and Hyderabad was named as the
capital. What kind of justice is this? Taxes
of Telangana people were used to build
the capital and who are enjoying it?
“We (people of Andhra) brought
infrastructure to Hyderabad”Its
the worlds most pathetic joke I ever
heard. What was the capital of Andhra
Rastra? KURNOOL, fine where was its
secretariat? Guess where? It was in
tents.
Now Hyderabad was a place with an
Airport, Railway lines to connect it to main
land(built by nizam) , and of all the
greatest technical advantage is the one who
knows to use it is now in Turkey and the
one who should actually use them are
struggling to survive and secure their
rights.
Now all those offices and buildings were
used by the new govt of Andhra
Pradesh.
Yes things were also built here even
after unification of state but to my doubt
were all those things were of no use to
settlers? Did they build them just for
philanthropic purpose?
And if the people of coastal Andhra were
that great in their Entrepreneurship
skills they could have invested it right
there where they were and developed it.
This clearly indicates that they had
some easy benefits which brought them here.
“Telangana is backward:
1. Few intellectuals (please read it
rather as fools) argue that Telangana is
rather backward, after reading the data
that I gave it will be easy for
you to understand how good was its GDP
when it was it with nizam,
though despotic Nizam rulers built
industries, how many big industries
did Telangana get after 1956 and how
many did Andhra region get.
And now nizam sugars which gave a huge sum
of Rs 6 lakhs as a relief
fund during 1962 Indo-china war is no
more a public sector (owned by
people’s govt) company it is in the
hands of private management.
2. Read about the glory in Mahboobnagar
and Karimnagar from any
sources, you understand the pathetic
condition of them after the
unification.
3. If some would argue that we had
problem of radical movement, then
the state and such people should be
ashamed of blaming them.
Radicals are different from dacoits and
thugs they are born out of
system which is incompetent to solve
their problem. Here people
prefer not to live in darkness and
accept the terms imposed on them.
4. Many people accuse people of
Telangana as people who lack interest
in development here is a straight
question for those people what is
development? First you define it and go
ahead with the discussion;
development varies from region to
region. We need peace and security
to develope , which Telangana lacked
almost till 1990’s and who is to
be blamed for it ? Obviously Both the
centre and state governments ,
now if some one say that state was busy
dealing with such matters then
let them advice what else could people
do if they were being
persecuted by the very forces of state?
5. And can you please find a person in this
world who does not want
good health facilities? Good education?
Security? And a respectful and
peaceful life? Some one claim that they
bring investment which we
lack, then let them take it back, no one
would have stopped the British
if they took away the parliament
building , Raisina palace(raj bhavanpresidential
palace of India), prakasham barrage
which they built
during their rule. Did they built these
all just for us to look and feel the
beauty? No they had some use out of it
and so are the investments of
the settlers.
Now after decades long fight against
landlords’ things turned to normalcy in rural
Telangana, but we lost more that 4
decades in that now you suddenly announce the
liberalization in 1990’s and ask
business men of Telangana to compete with Andhra
business men? Is the race between two
equals or between unequal’s? Now to fill the gap
business men from North India also came
with their huge investments to AP to establish
their companies. Even if a Business men
from Telangana wants to invest by borrowing a
loan from a bank whom will the bank
issue a loan? To a company which has huge
amount of security and history or to a
person who came from no where?
The answer is known. People of Telangana
are not against the people who are poor, poor
people will migrate only when there is
no other choice left for them , we are against the
greedy land grabbers and industrialists.
Now the state (India) says if separate
state is created it will be hub of Maoists and they
point their fingers at Jharkhand and
Chhattisgarh! It is senseless to say so giving a
separate state does not mean it is the
end the centre has to take some additional care,
human being with this long history of
evolution will always take care of a pregnant
women and mother with an infant, we
won’t leave them expecting them to learn from the
history. If a state with such a great
mechanism can’t utilize its resources to take care of its
people then what use of that state will
be? Don’t you know what happened to Mughal
empire and Roman empire?
“It is good to be one as we all speak a
common language”
The concept of discrimination starts
from naming of the state when Marathi
speaking people named their state as
Maharashtra, Guajarati people as
Gujarat, Tamil speaking people as Tamil nadu, why did
they name telugu speaking people as
Andhra Pradesh why could not this be Telugu Nadu
or Telugu Pradesh?
If common language is the base of unity
then why did British and USA fight 2 bitter wars
(1776 & 1812) though they speak common
language?
If u say that they are not
geographically connected then atleast say why does not Canada
and USA cant join to form a nation, they
both speak English right?
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,
Jharkhand, Haryana, Delhi all speak in Hindi
should we combine them? Will they accept
it?
Go to Scotland and ask any one are you
English? Then he will angrily reply that he is a
Scottish, and the bombs of Ireland
republican association went off till last decade in
streets of London.
Even though their struggle traces back
to 13th century Scottish and Irish people kept their
struggle alive.
The argument is simple it is not
language or land that make a state it is the people and
culture make them a state. State stands
for people but not a land mass. They concept of
centralizing everything is a myth you
cant run this big country sitting in Delhi until and
unless it shows some respect to regional
feelings. Why did all the previous empires did
not withstand in India. Could
Alla-Ud-Din-khilji and mughal rulers establish their
authority by force?
“Telangana will once again move into
muslim domination”
There is no place for communalism
(atleast) in
Telangana, when Razakars of nizam of
were harassing people of Telangana many
Muslim youth stood by the side of the
oppressed, maqdoom moinuddin is the best
example for it.
Abid Hassan was the deputy of Subash
Chandra Bose in INA and he hails from
Hyderabad. Go and look in rural
Telangana who will dance for PIR’s Of Muslims?
And there is no need for Muslims to
prove their patriotism. Telangana has common
enemies as the poor of other parts of
world has hunger, corruption, oppression,
inequality, are our enemies but not a
single religion and we will fight the inequality till
victory is ours.
“Demand for separate state will lead to
disintegration of country”
If that is the case Telangana was a
separate country
altogether for 13 months why did people
fight to join Indian union? Our fight isn’t like
Khalistan or any other separatist
movement. Just refer to contributions of Telangana
during 1962 indo china war and other
national catastrophes?
Time has come to correct the policy at
the centre. The centre must take care of only
Finance, Defense & external affairs
it should give chance for the states to evolve,
people of north east, Telangana,
vidharabha, bhundelkhand, etc., must be given a chance
to prove themselves they must be given
time to evolve and understand the main stream
system
NOTE:
I written all this to know about the
telangana region’s present facing problems
It’s not me who written the complete
survey of this document .It’s a collection of various writers
Historical Books references. The
statistics written is approximately correct as per 2001-02
survey. presently the statistics may
change for 2008-09.Regarding other matters its true to heart.
Its only reference and not original
document assigned by government to prove. I am not
responsible for anything legally on it.
