Hyderabad: Telangana cabinet has approved developing 30,000 acres for its ambitious Future City Project between Nagarjunasagar highway and the Srisailam highway, covering 7 mandals and 1,355 villages.
The cabinet has approved increasing the limits of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HMDA) to cover 11 districts, 104 mandals and 1,355 villages in Telangana, extending its reach between the limits of the outer-ring road (ORR), up to 2 km outside the regional ring road (RRR).
Explaining the cabinet’s decisions after marathon 6-hour-long discussions at Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat on Thursday, March 6, revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said that Telangana has been trifurcated into three zones, where Telangana’s core area lies within the ORR’s limits.
He said that from the ORR till the RRR and 2 km outside it marked as the buffer zone, it will be demarcated as the Telangana’s urban area, and the rest of the state will be the rural Telangana.
He stated that 56 villages in the 7 mandals of Hyderabad’s periphery were newly being merged with the Future City Development Agency (FCDA) region, for which 90 new posts have been approved by the cabinet.
He said 332 new revenue villages were added to the HMDA’s limits.
It was also decided to table the draft SC Categorisation Bill in the next assembly session, apart from introducing the bill to give 42% reservations to the backward classes (BC) in education, employment and politics.
In the six-hour-long cabinet meeting that was held on Thursday, the state cabinet has also approved bringing about an Indira Mahila Shakthi Mission- 2025l by bringing all the women’s self-help groups under the MEPMA and SERP under one umbrella.
It was also decided to increase the membership age limit of self-help group (SGH) women to 15 years to 65 years.
Establishment of the Yadagirigutta Temple Board, and developing 27 tourist destinations across the state under the Telangana Tourism Policy-2025, and conducting Miss World Pageant 2025 in Telangana were discussed and approved by the cabinet.
The cabinet has decided to absorb revenue officials who had held village revenue officer (VRO) and village revenue assistant (VRA) posts, to work as village-level officials (VLO) in 10,954 villages across the state.
Clearance of over 5 acres for the construction of ESI Hospital in Pedda Golconda, a government job for Paralympian Deepthi, 361 new posts for the newly-formed revenue divisions and mandals, 330 new posts in the residential educational institutions, and the reduction of Gandhamalla reservoir’s storage capacity from 4.2 tmcft to 1.41 tmcft were approved by the cabinet.
Observing that the Centre’s attempt to conduct delimitation was being done keeping the north/south concept in its mind, Ponguleti stated that the issue will be debated in an all-party meeting led by deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka and senior Congress leader K Jana Reddy and fight with the centre.
