Amid the growing chatter of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi possibly opting for an early Assembly elections next year, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced a number of sops for the minorities.
The sops include hundred per cent subsidy for minority youth seeking self-employment and setting up units with an investment of Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 2,50,000.
The Chief Minister also announced an exclusive industrial estate and an IT corridor for the Muslim entrepreneurs.
On the social infrastructure side, he announced 10 per cent quota for Muslims in the allotment of double bed room houses to the poor.
Political overtones to the announcement were obvious from the fact the review meeting where the decisions were made was attended by the MIM president and MP Asaduddin Owaisi and MiM floor leader in the assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi apart from deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali, Chief Secretary SP Singh and other senior officials.
The Chief Minister also announced that the recruitment tests for the Government jobs will also be conducted in Urdu apart from Telugu and English. The proposed measures include strengthening Minority Development Corporation, State Waqf Board and Urdu Academy by filling all the vacant posts. The Chief Minister also ordered the release of Rs 41.7 crore from special development fund for the development works in Hyderabad lok Sabha seat.
The Chief Minister accepted the demand for Rs 500 crore to improve the water supply and sewerage line in old city.
KCR also announced that as Charminar was the main tourist attraction in the city the area around Charminar will be developed on the lines of Golden Temple of Amritsar and the 42 kms long stretch along river Musi on the lines of river front of Sabarmati in Ahmedabad.
The Chief Minister also assured the MIM leaders that the work on International Islamic Cultural Centre will begin within three weeks.
The Centre will come up on area of ten acres in Kokapet.
Asaduddin Owaisi lauded the government's steps for setting up residential schools for minorities and said that several Muslim families were sending their wards to the schools.
He hoped that these schools will bring a social revolution in the next decade.