Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday assured Telangana of Centre’s full cooperation for the development of Telangana State, especially in the roads sector. Addressing a media conference in Hyderabad on Monday Gadkari said that the Centre will develop Express Highways linking Hyderabad to Bangalore on one side and to Amarvathi on the other.
Stressing that the Centre was favorable towards all the development needs of Telangana, Gadkari said that an amount of Rs4,100 crore was earmarked for the development of highways in the State. Gadkari who also held discussions with the State road and buildings minister Tummala Ngeshwara Rao on the pending issues of the state, said that 2,500 kms long highways will be developed in the State at a cost of Rs40,800 crore.
Earlier on reaching Begumpet airport in the city, the state BJP leaders and workers accorded a warm welcome to the Union Minister. later Gadkari also laid foundation stone for a four-lane road linking Warangal to Yadgirigutta, which the Telangana government was developing in to a major temple town. The express way between Hyderabad and Yadgirigutta already exists and its expansion till Warangal was pending for a long time.
Speaking on the occasion Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao praised Gadkari and said that the credit of building the first Expressway in the country goes to him.
Even as the state BJP leaders were projecting Nitin Gadkari’s announcement as their achievement ahead of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections, TRS member of lok Sabha K Kavitha challenged the state BJP leaders to bring a special package of Rs 20000 crore for the state.
“If you get a package of Rs 20000 crore for Telangana from the Center I will also vote for the BJP in GHMC elections”, she told the state BJP President G Kishan Reddy and union minister of state Bandaru Dattatreya.
Addressing Hyderabad city TRS workers’ meeting Kavita said that the KCR government was rendering unprecedented service to the poorer sections in the state and 20000 old age pensions were granted in the city of Hyderabad itself.