Telangana : A new State

Last night, P Chidambaram, Home Minister of India, has announced that the Central government will take steps towards creation of a new state called Telangana. It is subject to the resolution passing in AP assembly and parliament. But it looks like they’ll somehow pass it. KCR does 10 days fast in AC rooms under expert doctors observation to divide a state while our shameless central GOVT agrees.  Even then, it will take another 18 months for the new state to form.

At one time this was a nation of many small kingdoms, constantly warring with each other. The British knew how the situation could be exploited, and they used it to their advantage. It’s such a sorry state of affairs that one man with a few thousand supporters can hold a country to blackmail and get his own, when it was very clear from the last few elections that the Telangana people themselves don’t see any need for a separate state. Today’s the day I started feeling like an outsider in the city I’ve called it my own,  leaving loved ones and a job in bangalore.

What exactly will cutting up a state and spending crores making new admin setup, will bring to the people in AP. Central Government has to allocate separate funds to these states to establish all the new infrastructure needed to run the new system.  Ultimately we, the tax payer money goes in the process. I have not seen any state/people of the state make any progress after creation. Live example is state of Jharkand, Chattisgarh, and Uttaranchal. I guess in the name of development, political parties want to create 2 CM posts, 2 Ministerial posts in each dep…instead of one in united Andhra. Unnecessary waste of public money and more corruption. What public can gain, need to be seen?. I would stand anywhere and say that its going to make least difference to the actual people, prices are not going to come down, nothing is going to change.“

I don't see any reason, what made Telangana look like a backward place. I don't see any discrimination while awarding ranks in EAMCET, ICET etc..I don't think Wipro, Infosys will discriminate between telangana and andhra while recruiting.  Major industrial development has been concentrated around telangana state. Education wise, Telangana have OU, JNTU,NIT,Kakateeya, ISB. IIT is coming to Telangana. What about HCU, IIIT. Rest of the AP has only AU and SVU. All this development has been done without any regional feeling. NTR developed hyd more than Vijaywads, Chandrababu Naidu developed Hyderabad than chittoor. There are around 1,50,000 IT jobs in Hyderabad.

May be only Irrigation is neglected in Telangana, not sure why this has been done. Though krishna and Godavari flows through Telangana they are diverted to Andhra through dams. There are quiet a few reasons why Andhra got better irrigation than Telengana.

1) Andhra is at a place where rivers merge into sea.  At such places rivers split into multiple sub-rivers (payalu antaru telugulo) then they merge into sea.  Krishna and Godavari split into multiple branches and they flow through many parts of Andhra ending those areas as most fertile lands.  This makes them best suited for cultivation.

2) Telengana is mainly Deccan Plateau.   A region well above sea level; for this reason river water cannot be easily diverted into telengana region as for irrigating these lands only method is "lift irrigation" which is very costly.   Water can flow naturally into Andhra region and also there are fertile lands which gives added benefits for cultivation of Paddy.    Even lands in Telengana are not as well suited for cultivation as in Andhra (naturally fertile land).  This cannot form a major reason for ignoring irrigation in Telengana but a logical reason for a developing country.

3) Telengana is mainly suited for low water cropping but that is also not taken care well by government.  Processes like drip irrigation should have been encouraged.

I felt lot of area in Telegana which should have been used for better development of State and of Telengana.  For this people need leaders with vision; not separate state. 

When I was kid India had some 24+ states when I will have kids it might be 100+. New states are rarely formed for administrative convenience but more for satisfying personal egos of leaders who want to make it big and fill their pockets. We will end up more crooked idiots ruling the state for their own benefits. My stand is always "Telangana development in Combined Andhra Pradesh".