The new Telangana Secretariat, said to be the tallest and one of the largest in the country, was inaugurated on Sunday early morning hours by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao by performing the ‘Sudarsana Yagam’. The Secretariat has been named after BR Ambedkar and the CMO is placed on its sixth floor.
Addressing a gathering of ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs, secretaries and heads of all the departments and the secretariat staff in the new secretariat premises, KCR said today was a red letter day in the history of Telangana as the new state of the art secretariat was inaugurated with fervour and much enthusiasm.
“The marvel structure of the new secretariat is the epicenter of the state administration. Today, I am blessed and fortunate that I inaugurated the wonderful new secretariat,” the CM said.
Rao said the decision to name it after Ambedkar was taken with an intention that people’s representatives and the entire government machinery should work for realising the ideals of Babasaheb.
On the occasion, Rai said the per capita income of Telangana was the highest among all states in India.
The building, the foundation of which was laid in June 2019, has been built with a height of 265 feet on an area of 10,51,676 square feet in a sprawling 28 acre land. No state has such a tall secretariat, a Press release by the government said.
The ‘domes’ of the new secretariat have been built on the styles of the Neelakantheswara Swamy temple of the Kakatiya period in Nizamabad, designs of the palaces of the royals of Vanaparthi ‘Samsthanam’ in Telangana and the pattern of the Hanuman temple in Sarangapur, Gujarat.
The construction was done flawlessly with the instructions of Roads and Buildings (R&B) department, IGBC (Indian Green Building Council), Telangana Technological Services and State police department, the government release added.