TRS chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao addressed a huge public meeting in Halia on Wednesday (today) to campaign for party in the upcoming Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll on April 17.

KCR delivered speech for nearly 30 minutes. But his entire speech was targetted at Congress.

Surprisingly, KCR did not utter a single word against BJP or PM Modi or Bandi Sanjay or any other BJP leader.

KCR confined most of his speech to attack Congress and Congress candidate Jana Reddy.

Interestingly, the BJP is attacking KCR and TRS in its campaign.

BJP leaders Kishan Reddy, Vijayashanthi, Bandi Sanjay etc are launching a scathing attack on KCR and TRS.

Despite this, KCR preferred to keep silent on BJP.

On the other hand, KCR’s son KTR is attacking BJP more than Congress in all the public meetings.

KTR is not sparing even PM Modi and Amit Shah in his speeches saying that TRS will chase them away and issued ‘final warning’ to Telangana BJP leaders that TRS government will file cases if they abuse KCR in social media platforms.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has copied Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s scheme of developing government schools on par with private schools.

Jagan named his scheme as “Nadu-Nedu” and launched it in November 2019 in AP to develop 15,715 government schools in three years by spending Rs 12,000 crore. 

Though KCR did not name this scheme, he has decided to allot Rs2,000 crore per year to develop all government schools in Telangana from this year.

KCR appointed a cabinet sub committee comprising of his son and IT minister KT Rama Rao, education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy and others to finalise the guidelines for implementing this scheme from the new academic year 2021-22.

The cabinet sub committee held its first meeting on Thursday in Hyderabad.

In the first meeting, the ministers discussed and examined how YS Jagan government is implementing this scheme in AP.

It was decided to send a team of officials to AP to examine few schools and study the development works being undertaken under “Nadu Nedu” in AP. 

To prevent a repeat of the mayhem wreaked on Hyderabad following unprecedentedly heavy rainfall in October last year, the Telangana government has drawn out an elaborate plan to strengthen the existing stormwater drain system in the city.

The plan, which includes remodelling of drains, and construction of surplus weirs, has received administrative clearance for Rs 853 crore from the state government. It covers the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, and surrounding municipal bodies.

The move, which comes in the aftermath of October 2020 flood, is aimed at preventing inundation of low-lying areas and to mitigate damages suffered due to heavy rains. The state government issued orders directing the officials to execute the works and ensure that inundation of low-lying areas do not recur.

The state government set up the Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP), to plan, develop and maintain a dedicated stormwater drainage infrastructure and ‘nala’ (drain) system in Hyderabad.

To speed up the pace of work, the project has been split up into 15 different packages, with tenders to be floated shortly, officials said.

The heavy rains that lashed Hyderabad last year, for more than a week, had led to massive flooding of several low-lying areas, causing untold miseries to around 40,000 families spread across the city.

With the resurge in the Covid cases in Telangana, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has urged the people to strictly follow the Covid guidelines.

In his message on the World Health Day on Wednesday, he appealed to people to keep the environment clean and green, take nutritious food, keep a tab on healthy living and contain the spread of Covid-19.

KCR, as the chief minister is popularly known, stated in his message that health is wealth and the state government is working towards a healthy society. He said the development is possible only when people are healthy.

He said that the state government is implementing successfully several programmes and schemes towards improving the public health. The stat government has strengthened public health centres, hospitals and medical and health system.

He pointed out that the Basti Dawakhanas started in Greater Hyderabad have yielded good results and this would be replicated in other towns and cities. With these measures, the state government has brought the medical and health services to the doorsteps of people and improved the standards.

The state government also made available protein rich food by increasing the consumption of meat, fish, fruits and vegetables. A scheme has also been launched to set up integrated veg and non-veg markets all over the state.

The CM said the programmes launched under the Palle Pragathi and Pattana Pragathi have won several awards and showed that the state government is working for the public health. KCR said for the past one year, the state and its people could withstand the corona due to their basic good habits and their immune to diseases.

The Mission Bhagiratha Scheme which provided pure, safe drinking water to reach and every household in the state helped to increase the public health in a qualitative way. The KCR Kits Programme aimed at the well-being of the mother and child and has helped the women and child welfare immensely. With Kalyan Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak schemes, there is a fast decline in the child marriages and reduced infant female mortality rate.