Telangana Stands As Role Model, Says KTR
He urged the NRIs to be Telangana's goodwill ambassador, participate in government's programmes like Mana Ooru -- Mana Badi and promote Telangana and India.
Telangana with astounding progress achieved since inception of the state in 2014 stands as a role model, said state minister for industries and information technology K.T. Rama Rao.
Before heading to the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, the Minister spoke at the 'Meet and Greet' programme organised by the Indian diaspora in Zurich.
Indians living in Switzerland, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and other countries attended the gathering, according to the Minister's office in Hyderabad.
He urged the NRIs to be Telangana's goodwill ambassador, participate in government's programmes like Mana Ooru -- Mana Badi and promote Telangana and India.
Urging them to be part of the state's growth story, KTR assured of complete support even if anyone wants to make small investments in the state and create jobs.
Giving a peek into development, the minister said that paddy production was at 68 lakh tonnes and procurement by the government was 24 lakh tonnes in 2014 and in 2022, the production and procurement grew to 3.5 crore tonnes and over two crore tonnes, respectively.
The IT exports out of Telangana grew from Rs. 57,000 crore to Rs 1.83 lakh crore, per capita of Telangana grew from Rs 1.24 lakh in 2014 to Rs 2.78 lakh, while national average is Rs 1.49 lakh, he said
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Speaking about the progress achieved in the villages, KTR said that now every village has a nursery, vaikunta dhamam, and 10 per cent of gram panchayat budget is earmarked as green budget, and the government has provided a tractor and a tanker for every gram panchayat in the state.
KTR said that the needs of farmers were taken care of by providing free power round-the-clock, Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bhima, high quality seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, and Rythu Vedikas were built.
He said that Palle Pragathi was a role model, and that the needs of people in villages were thoroughly thought through by Chief Minister KCR, which no other Chief Minister or Prime Minister did.
The Industries Minister said that five revolutions are unfolding in Telangana, which are: Pink revolution (meat), yellow revolution (oil palm), blue revolution (inland fisheries), white revolution (milk) and green revolution (crops).
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