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By overcoming the precarious power supply (availability) position of over 12-hour power cuts every day in rural areas, 3 to 4 power holidays to the industrial sector every week and struggling hard to ensure even a 6-hour supply to the farm sector from the first day of its existence, Telangana’s…

HYDERABAD: The country’s youngest state scores high on gross state domestic product (GSDP) and per capita income growth indicating it is on the right track, but it is the debt burden that has become Telangana’s Achilles’ heel, casting a long shadow over its fiscal well-being.

It is an indisputable fact that athletes from Telangana have made a lasting impression by representing India on the highest platform, more so since the new State was formed a decade ago.

The struggle for separate Telangana was not just about jobs and water. It was also about its culture, its history, its art, and its food. Food in Hyderabad meant biryani, haleem, tomato cut, khichidi khatta and a host of other delicacies.

Telangana Formation Day: ‘Fidaa’ and ‘Mallesham’ to ‘Dasara’ and ‘Balagam’, Telangana narratives go mainstream in Telugu cinema. There are challenges as well

Along with renowned institutions such as Osmania Medical College and Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Adilabad, and Government Medical College in Nizamabad, 21 more medical colleges have been established in the State, taking the total to 26.

‘Avoidable blindness’ is preventable if basic access to eye care is provided like spectacles or eye drops at the correct time. The major similarity between Phase-1 and Phase-2 of the programme is that 60% of the beneficiaries were women and the elderly.

In the 10th year of its formation, Telangana has added another feather in its cap — the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat, a state-of-the-art integrated complex with several facilities like seamless connectivity, spacious conference halls, and situated amid lush green surroundings.

Proactive decisions by the K.Chandrasekhar Rao-led Telangana government have helped the State become a trailblazer in multiple domains, and showcase significant improvement in infrastructure and human development indices. The achievement is creditable as it comes in the face of alleged “non-cooperation” by the Central government.

Telangana, entering into the 10th year of its formation on June 2, may have made remarkable progress in several performance indicators like power and agriculture, but bifurcation issues such as division of assets and liabilities with neighbouring Andhra Pradesh have remained unresolved so far.

From a ‘movement party’ that spearheaded the 13-year fight for a separate Telangana State, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has evolved into a ‘pucca’ (solid) political entity.