Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao met Union finance minister Arun Jaitley in Delhi on Thursday and sought early establishment of AIIMS and IIM in Telangana as promised by the Centre earlier. He offered to allot the required land and provide all the infrastructure facilities if the Centre sanctions the AIIMS. The Chief Minister also recalled then Union minister of HRD Smriti Irani’s promise that an Indian Institute of Management would be set up in Telangana.
The Chief Minister thanked Mr Jaitley for extending Rs 450 crore grant every year to nine backward districts by enlisting them among the backward districts among the old 10 districts in the state. The Chief Minister noted that the Centre had sanctioned Rs 450 crore in the Budget to backward districts for the last three years but in the ongoing fiscal, it did not release the amount though 2017-18 was coming to an end next month.
The CM also sought Rs 19,000 crore for Mission Bhagiratha, Rs 5,000 crore for Mission Kakatiya as recommended by Niti Aayog two years ago, and national status and funds for the Kaleshwaram irrigation project. The TRS floor leader in the Lok Sabha A.P. Jithender Reddy, chief advisor to the government, Rajiv Sharma, CMP principal secretary Narsing Rao, and finance secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao accompanied the Chief Minister. The CM did not manage to get an appointment with the Prime Minister on Thursday as Mr Modi was campaigning in the North Eastern states, but hopes to meet him on Friday evening after meeting home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday morning.
