Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday said that organising the World Telugu Conference was a matter of pride and prestige for the state government. He asked all departments and officials to ensure that fool-proof arrangements were in place for the event. Mr Rao said that he wanted the Jnanpith Award winners of 13 Indian languages to be felicitated at the conference. “We should receive credit for having felicitated so many Jnanpith awardees,” he said at a meeting held with ministers and senior officials at Pragathi Bhavan to discuss arrangements for the conference.
Organisers said that about 8,000 delegates were expected to attend, and the CM said that every one of them should be treated with respect. He asked the organisers to individually assume responsibility for each of the locations, including LB Stadium, and ensure that there were no problems with respect to the delegates’ stay, food, or logistics. He asked them to ensure that proper transport arrangements we made for the delegates to be able to visit several daises in the morning and then reach the main venue in the evening.
Mr Rao said that he wanted cultural programmes and the screening of a documentary on Telangana state to be organised at LB Stadium on all five days of the conference. He said that Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu would inaugurate the event. “Crackers should be burst on a large scale,” he said. “The WTC should make everyone feel that it is for all and that they are all invited. Every connoisseur of literature and language should get the message that anybody wishing to attend the conference is welcome,” the CM said.
