Even before the Telangana government released its white paper on the financial position of the state in the last 10 years, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi released a counter power-point presentation with 51 slides, explaining how the previous K Chandrasekhar Rao government had created huge assets in the last 10 years.
The BRS sought the permission of Speaker G Prasad Kumar to make its own power-point presentation in the assembly but was denied the same. So, it released the copy of the presentation to the media.
The presentation presents in detail the development and assets the KCR government, right from the power sector, to infrastructure, economy, agriculture and so on.
The reforms in the power sector, which enabled the State reach the top in per capita power consumption, and the multiple initiatives in other sectors which saw it reaching the top in the country again in per capita income as well, have been detailed in the document.
The presentation, which compares the situation in 2014 and 2023, also details the growth in GSDP, Sales Tax, Registration income, the development in infrastructure including the new roads laid and the decentralisation of the State’s districts from 10 to 33.
It also pointed out how the BRS government took up construction of the integrated district offices complexes in 30 districts so far at a cost of Rs.1,649.62 crore and increased the number of municipalities from 52 to 128 and so on, to mention a few.
The BRS said after the formation of Telangana, the assets of the state had increased by 159%.
“For every Re 1 loan borrowed by the BRS government, there was creation of assets worth Rs 1,000,” the white paper said.
Similarly, the per capita income of the Telangana shot up by 151%, tax collections by 161% and revenue from stamps and registrations by 406%. The production of crops increased multi-fold – paddy by 150% and cotton by 50%.
“The area under cultivation went up by 50 percent compared to 2014,” the BRS white paper said.