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The Rivers Were Always There.
Telangana Finally Got Them.
The Godavari carried 1,480 TMC through Telangana every year. Almost none of it reached Telangana's fields. Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya and Kaleshwaram changed that permanently.
The irrigation potential utilised increased from 20 lakh acres before statehood to 103 lakh acres in 2022-23, a fivefold increase. Telangana is now the number one state in paddy procurement by FCI.
Irrigation and Command Area Development Department, Government of TelanganaFrom Suicide to Surplus.
The Farmer's Decade.
In 2014, 1,500 Telangana farmers died by suicide. By 2023, that number was 56. Rythu Bandhu, free power, crop loan waivers and guaranteed procurement changed what it meant to be a farmer in Telangana.
Farmer suicides fell from 1,500 in 2014 to just 56 in 2023, a 95.84% reduction. Telangana's share of national farmer suicides dropped from 11.1% to 0.51%. The clearest and most human measure of what this decade achieved.
National Crime Records Bureau data, cited in Telangana Library Chapter VIThey Said Telangana
Would Go Dark.
Leaders of the combined AP warned that bifurcation would cut power supply. Within two years, Telangana had eliminated load shedding entirely, guaranteed 24-hour free power to farmers, and more than doubled its capacity.
From leaders of erstwhile Andhra saying Telangana will go dark if bifurcated, to the state that provides 24 hours of continuous free electricity to its farmers. Every prediction of failure became the proof of what was possible.
Telangana Library, Chapter VIIIThe State That Finally
Showed Up for Its People.
Before 2014, Telangana's poor received Rs.75 to Rs.200 per month. KCR's government identified ten categories of people who needed the state, enrolled every eligible person without exception, and built the most comprehensive welfare architecture in India.
KCR's government did not ask the poor to prove they were poor before helping them. It identified who needed the state, enrolled every eligible person, and paid without interruption. Rs.50,000 crore every year. More than any other state in the country.
Telangana Library, Chapter VIIFrom Zero Degree Colleges
to Building 68 in Nine Years.
In 2001, Telangana ranked 32nd in literacy among 35 states. The combined AP had built zero degree colleges for BC, SC and ST communities. KCR's government built 68 of them, plus 930 residential schools educating 4.28 lakh students.
The combined state built zero BC degree colleges in 58 years. KCR's government built 16 in nine. The children of families that had never seen the inside of a college campus are now graduating from institutions built for them.
Telangana Library, Chapter VIIThe State That Was Predicted
to Fail, Led Instead.
Critics predicted economic collapse at bifurcation. Instead, Telangana became one of India's fastest growing economies, ranked first in Ease of Doing Business in 2016, and built T-Hub, the world's largest startup campus.
Those who predicted Telangana would fail without Andhra watched instead as it became one of the fastest growing economies in the country. What was held back for fifty-eight years, once released, moved fast.
Telangana Library, Chapter VIIIBuilt in Nine Years What
Was Denied for Fifty-Eight.
From zero metro rail to 69 km and 30 crore passengers. From 10 districts to 31. From no optic fiber connectivity to every Gram Panchayat wired. Telangana built its institutions at a pace that surprised even its supporters.
In nine years, Telangana built what was denied for fifty-eight. A metro system, 31 districts, 12,751 Gram Panchayats wired to fibre internet, 8,218 km of new roads and a Secretariat named after the man who gave India its Constitution.
Telangana Library, Chapter VIII