Telangana State First Budget at a glance

Item             Rs in crores
Budget for the year 2014-15 (for ten months)  - 1,00,637.96

Non-Plan  -  51,989.49
Plan      - 48,648.47
Total Revenue receipts - 80,090.33

Share of Central taxes - 9,749.36

Central grants  -  21,720.71
Centrally assisted state plan -- 11,781.25
Compensation for loss of Central sales tax - 1,500
FC grants -  3,139.46
State's own tax revenue - 35,378.24

Sales tax - 26,963.30
Excise - 2,823.54
MV tax  - 2,226.86
Stamps and registration - 2,583.88
State's non-tax revenue - 13,242.02
Mines and Minerals - 1,877.52
Contra interest - 2,508.98
Total Revenue expenditure  -  79,789.31
Revenue surplus - 301.02
Total expenditure on capital and loan account - 17,774.30

Fiscal deficit - 17,398.72
GSDP(for ten months) -  3,63,173

Fiscal deficit % of GSDP  - 4.79

Major schemes

Allotment to major schemes and programmes in Telangana Budget


Scheme           --   Rs in crores

Welfare pensions  - 1,689.99
Water Grid - 2,000
FAST  - 2,734.95

Investment in TSGenco - 1,000
Land purchase scheme for SCs  - 1,000
Roads and Buildings - 2,000

Construction of rural roads - 2,000

Kalyana Lakshmi - 330

HMWSSB (Supply of Krishna & Godavari waters to Hyderabad) - 581
Slum free programme in GHMC area - 250

Telangana Amaravirula Pathakam - 100
Godavari Pushkaralu  - 100
Yadagirigutta Development - 100
Seed chain -  50
Market Intervention Fund  - 400
Farm mechanisation  - 100
Micro irrgation - 250
Subsidy for poly houses (1,000 acres) - 250
Power subsidy to poultry industry - 20

Telangana Haritha Haaram - 300
Special Development Fund -- 500
Constituency Development Programme - 234
Two-bed room houses - 85 crore
Assistance to TSIIC - 100
Incentives for industrial promotion - 355
Power subsidy for industries - 200
Commissioner of Cyberabad police - 70
Amrutha Hastham - 211
Solar Pumpset programme - 200
Komram Bheem Memorial - 25
KG to PG Education - 25
Loans to TSRTC for purchase of buses - 150
Forest college - 10


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Telangana Budget highlights

 The budget is only for ten months of 2014-15, it has been so programmed to integrate seamlessly into the five year perspective plan of 2014-19. The new schemes and programmes and the allocations made for the same in the Finance Minister Etela Rajender's budget speech are as follows:




  Rs 100 crore in Budget for ex-gratia to Telangana martyrs

The growth of the State economy witnessed a sharp fall from an average of 10.5 per cent during the period 2005-10 to 4.5 per cent in 2012-13 owing to marked deceleration in the growth of industrial sector. Reversal of this trend requires massive infusion of investment funds into agriculture, industry and infrastructure sectors.

The per capita income of the State at Rs 93,151 in 2013-14, though higher than the national average of Rs 74,920, masks wide variations across districts.  Only three out of ten districts in Telangana have per capita income higher than the national average.

NEW SCHEMES TO ACHIEVE BANGARU TELANGANA:

  Revival of Tanks and Irrigation: The government has decided to take up the restoration of over 45,000 tanks over the next five years. Nearly, 9,000 tanks are proposed to be taken up for restoration in this financial year. An amount of Rs 2,00 crore is proposed in the Budget.

Irrigation Projects: All the four Lift Irrigation Schemes Nettempadu, Kalwakurthi, Bhima and Koilsagar in Mahbubnagar district to be completed in the current year itself to bring 2,97,550 acres under irrigation. A total of Rs 6,500 crore in Budget for entire irrigation sector.

Water grid and drinking water:  Water grid to provide protected and piped drinking water to every household in the State through a network of pipelines at an estimated cost of Rs 25,00 crore. As a primer, a provision of Rs 2,000 crore is proposed in the Budget.

Agriculture and Allied Sectors:  The government has already credited to the loan accounts of farmers of Rs 4,250 crore as first instalment.
 Government has decided to bring an end to uncertainty in market and decided to establish a Market Invention Fund with a provision of Rs 400 crore in the budget

TS as Seed Bowl of Country: The State has taken the initiative of developing seed chains and an amount Rs 50 crore has provided in the budget. Plans are afoot to tie up with seed companies for marketing. Rs 100 crore for farm mechanisation.

Horticulture: To promote drip irrigation to optimise the use of ground water in 1.36 lakh acres. Rs 250 crore earmarked.

Poultry Sector: Rs 20 crore proposed towards power subsidy to poultry farmers.

Dairy sector: Rs 16.30 crore provided Rs 16.30 crore as an incentive to milk producers at the rate of Rs 4 per litre of milk supplied to Vijaya Dairy.


WELFARE PROGRAMMES:

   SC Welfare: Rs 1,000 crore provided three acres land for each SC family. State to spend Rs 50,000 for the SCs in the next five years.

Tribal Welfare: Rs 245.92 crore proposed for the educational institutions in tribal areas.

SC and ST sub-plans:  The amounts proposed under SC and ST sub-plans in this budget are RS 7,579.45 crore and Rs 4,559.81 crore.


Welfare of BCs: An amount of RS 2,022 crore is proposed to BCS under plan and non-plan

Welfare of Minorities: Rs 1,030 crore for welfare of minorities.


Kalyana Lakshmi: Rs 250 crore for Kalyana Lakshmi to give Rs 51,000 per girl for marriage purpose. Rs 150 crore for SCs, Rs 80 crore for STs and Rs 100 crore for Muslims.


Women and child welfare: Rs 10 crore proposed in the budget for strengthening safety and security measures for women.
  At present eight eggs per month are being provided to children in the age gruop of seven months to three years. The eggs will be increased from eight to 16 per month. Children in the age group of three to six years will get 30 eggs per month instead of 16 eggs per month. Rs 1,103.88 crore earmarked for ICDS.


LPG connections: Rs 100 crore proposed for one-time free supply of LPG connections to the poor women.

Aasara: Pensions to handloom weavers and toddy tappers too will be increased. Rs 1,317.77 crore in the budget for payment of pensions to the aged and the widows. Rs 367.75 crore for payment of pensions for the disabled.


KG TO PG: The government is committed to overhauling and strengthening the public education system from KG to PG in phases. A token amount of Rs 25 crore is proposed in the budget to roll out new strategy for improvised KG to PG education.
  Rs 940.73 crore for setting up of model schools at mandal level as benchmarks of excellence. Rs 119.63 crore for IIIT at Basara.


Medical and Health: Rs 100 crore each for improvements in Gandhi and Osmania hospitals. Rs 30 crore for Niloufer and RS 25 crore for King Koti hospital. Rs 50 crore for maternity hospitals at Petlaburz and Sultanbazar.
  District hospitals will be upgraded into super speciality hospitals. Rs 1 crore each proposed to upgrade 42 area hospitals. Rs 40 croer for strengthening of eye, mental, chest and ENT hospitals. Rs 152 crore for medical college buildings. State to establish a health university at Warangal.

Industry:  There was a negative growth of industry sector in Telangana by 0.9 per cent in 2012-13. Though growth marginally picked up to 2.7 per cent in 2013-14, it remains much below the desired level. For giving industrial growth a momentum, the State is set to release industrial policy.  To establish a land bank with about 5 lakh acres for locting industries. Land will be handed over to Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC). Rs 100 crore provided in the budget for the same. 

 Rs 100 for power subsidy to industries. Rs 90 crore for Hyderabad Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR). Government proposed to link research institutes, academia and industry in and around Hyderabad under the umbrella of "Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH).

  Rs 19.30 crore for incentives to SC entrepreneurs to set up industrial units.

Power loom weavers:  Loan waiver up to Rs 1 lakh per each weaver family.

Urban development: Installation of CCTVs in Hyderabad and Cyberabad Rs 44.59 and RS 25 crore proposed respectively. Rs 581 crore for Krishna and Godavari water supply schemes and sewerage improvement in Hyderabad.
 Rs 374.73 crore under Centrally assisted development scheme for small and medium towns. Rs 200 crore under externally aided municipal development project for improvement of drinking water supply and sanitation facilities in municipalities. Rs 150 crore as assistance to municipalities under the award of the State Finance Commission.


Road Network:  Rs 4,000 in the budget for improvement of road network. Government proposes to spend Rs 10,000 crore over two year time on road network.
 About 1,000 new buses are proposed to be added to the existing fleet of TSRTC.


Energy sector: Measures taken to add 20,000 MW of power generation in next five years.  With a view to augmenting power supply to agriculture, an amount of Rs 200 crore proposed in the budget to promote the use of solar pump sets. Rs 40 crore is provided to promote roof top solar power. Besides, servicing the bonds, a provision of Rs 1,000 crore has been proposed towards investments in TSGenco under State Plan. In addition, Rs 3,241.90 crore is provided to the energy sector under non-plan. This includes Rs 3,000 crore towards power subsidy.

Fores and Environment. Haritha Haaram to plan 230 crore saplings in next three to four years. A corpus fund of Rs 300 crore is proposed Haritha Haaram in the budget. Funds from the State Plan, CAMPA and MGNREGA will be tapped for the same. A forest college is proposed to be set up and RS 10 crore provided in the budget.


Culture, Tourism and Sports: Telangana Kala Bhavan at Hyderabad, Kaloji Cultural Centre at Warangal are proposed. Rs 15 crore earmaked for the same. Rs 11 crore proposed for the new scheme Samskrithika Sarathi to encourage artistes of Telangana

Yadagirigutta, a holy place, is proposed to be developed with Rs 100 crore on the lines of TTD. To develop 400 acres of Narasimha Abhayaranyam, parks, marriage halls, meditation centres, Veda Patasala and construct cottage in about 1,600 crore proposed in the budget.

Rs 100 core for Godavari Pushkaralu. Rs 60 crore for development of infrastructure in tourist destinations and circuits. Rs 90 crore for development of sports stadia and modernisation of sports facilities.


CDP: Constituency Development Fund for MLAs and MLCs has been increased from Rs 1 crore to Rs 1.5 crore. Rs 234 crore proposed in the budget.


Administrative Reforms: The State will shortly put in place a comprehensive Financial Management System. Once operational, all financial transactions in the state will be online eliminating discretion and delays ushering in a total transparent system of financial management.

Employee welfare: State is examining the issue of regularising contractual employees.

Housing: State is planning to take up the construction of houses with two bed rooms, a hall, kitchen, bathroom and a lavatroy at a unit cost of RS 3.5 lakhs. The amount proposed in the budget is Rs 1,000 crore.


Advocates: Rs 100 crore is provided for the welfare of advocates

Journalists: Rs 10 crore for the welfare journalists. To construct Journalist Bhavan at Hyderabad. The government has also decided to provide food security cards to all eligible families in the state.


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TS FM Speech

Express News Service
Hyderabad, November 5:
   The efforts of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the last five months to reorient Telangana State are amply reflected in the first Budget of Telangana introduced by Finance Minister Etela Rajender to the State Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
  The Finance Minister presented the Budget of Rs 1,00,637.96 crore with a revenue surplus of Rs 301.02 crore. The net surplus budget is Rs 5.5 crore and it is tax free. However, the fiscal deficit is huge amounting to Rs 17,398.72 crore. The fiscal deficit as percentage of GSDP is 4.79. The State requested the Central government to allow more market borrowings for this year. The budget is for only ten months, up to March, 2015.
  According to sources, in the last five months, the Telangana state spent only Rs 20,000 crore and decided to utilise the remaining amount of the Rs 1 lakh crore budget before March.
    All the new schemes and programmes, which had already announced by the government, got due allocations in the Budget and they would be spend in the next four months. "We have decided to reduce the gap between the allocation and actual spending," the Finance Minister told reporters after the Budget speech. He said that the first Budget was intended to realise Bangaru Telangana.
   In his maiden Budget speech, Rajender said: "Telangana State is the result of prolonged struggle by two generations of people over six decades during which many lost whatever little they had and some even their lives. This is a profound moment and I rise to present the first Budget for the new State of Telangana. This is also a historic occasion for four crore people of the State, as they take control of their own resourcesd and fate".
   "I will ensure judicious use of revenues for fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of not only the present but also future generations," the Finance Minister said.
  Rajender further added that "you are aware opportunities were lost and problems accumulated as a result of deliberate neglect of Telangana. The immense task before the government is not only to correct historic wrongs but also quickly impart social and economic justice for vast majority of the people.


quotes:

"I am pround and fortunate enough to present the first Budget for Telangana" - Finance Minister Etela Rajender

"The Budget truly reflected the aspirations of the people of Telangana," - Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao

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Budget Guide

Express News Service
Hyderabad, November 4:
    The newly formed 29th state Telangana is introducing its first full budget on Wednesday. Finance Minister Etela Rajender has the privilege to present the first budget under the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. People have several hopes on the first budget. The details of the budget will be known only on Wednesday.
 Here is the guide for the budget for the reader to understand in a better way their first budget.


BUDGET:
In the Constitution Budget is mentioned as "Annual Financial Statement". The term "Budget" is originally derived from the French word "Bougette" which means a leather bag. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer in Britain originally carried the financial proposals for the year to the House of Commons in a leather bag. Through usage,
gradually, the word "Budget" has come to be used to signify the
documents in the bag instead of the leather bag.


APPROVAL: All the expenditure incurred by the State should be
authorised by the Legislature. As it is not possible for the legislature to be in session throughout the year to scrutinise and approve the day to day monetary transactions of government, a system has been evolved by which the government prepares Budget for the ensuing year, showing all the anticipated receipts and expenditure
classified under certain broad heads of accounts.


All items of expenditure are broadly either "Charged" or "Voted".
"Charged", "Voted" Expenditure:
CHARGED: The emoluments and allowances of the Governor and other
expenditure relating to his office. The salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and in the case of a State having Legislative Council, also of the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council.
  Debt charges for which the State is liable including interest,
sinking fund charges and redemption charges, and other expenditure relating to the raising of loans and the service and redemption of debt. Expenditure in respect of the salaries and allowances of Judges of any High Court. Any sums required to satisfy any judgment, decree or award of any court or arbitral tribunal.
     Any other expenditure declared by this Constitution, or by the
Legislature of the State by law, to be so charged.

VOTED: The other expenditure is treated as voted expenditure.


BUDGET DIVISIONS: The "Annual Financial Statement" or "Budget" consists of the following divisions. Consolidated Fund of the State, Contingency Fund of the State and Public Account of the State.

Consolidated Fund of the State: All revenues received by the State government, loans and borrowings comes under this.


The transactions relating to the receipts and expenditure out of
the Consolidated Fund are accounted for in three different Sections. Revenue Account, Capital Account and Loan Account Revenue Account/ Revenue Receipts.


Revenue Receipts Comprise:

Tax Revenue: Collections under land revenue, stamps and
registration fees, sales tax, State Excise, taxes on vehicles,
entertainment tax and also share in Central taxes.

Non-tax Revenue: Interest receipts, dividends on capital
investments, receipts of various departments like fees for
examinations, tuition fees, receipts on forest produces, receipts
from mines and minerals and also 'User Charges' collected by the
departments for providing services.

Grants-in-aid and Contributions: Grants-in-aid from the Central government for various plan and non-plan schemes, statutory grant,
state share of union excise duties.


Revenue Expenditure: The expenditure under Revenue Account incurred for administering the different departments of the government, for
payment of interest charges on the borrowings of the government, for relief measures on natural calamities and on the maintenance and repairs of various capital assets like buildings, roads and irrigation sources. Expenditure which does not result in
creation of assets is treated as revenue expenditure.


Revenue Surplus or Deficit: When the expenditure on revenue account is less than the revenue receipts, the difference is called the "Revenue Surplus" for the year and when it is more, the difference is called the "Revenue Deficit".


  Capital Account: The Capital Account is the account of the expenditure of the capital nature i.e on acquisition of concrete assets of a lasting nature like purchase of land, construction of building, etc., which yield revenue or which avoid a recurring expenditure to government. All irrigation and electricity projects which are lasting assets and which yield revenues to government fall under Capital Assets and expenditure on construction of such projects is accounted for under Capital Account. The Buildings which save the government from recurring expenditure on rents are also considered as Capital Assets and the expenditure on construction of these buildings is classified under Capital Account.

Loan Account: The Loan Account is the account of Public Debt incurred and discharged and of loans and advances by the State government to local bodies, public sector undertakings, government servants and others and recoveries from them.


   
Demands for Grants. The estimates of expenditure from the Consolidated Fund included in the Budget Estimates and required to be voted by the
Legislature are presented to the Legislative Assembly in the form of demands for grants.

  These detailed demands for grants show Head of the Department-wise details of the provisions included in the demands for grants for
expenditure for the previous year and the budget year and revised
estimates of the current year. They also give a break-up of the
estimates, i.e., details of the minor heads (Programmes) sub-heads
(Organization or Scheme), detailed heads (Object of expenditure) e.g. salaries, wages, travel expenses, machinery and equipment, grants-inaid,etc., sub-details under detailed heads like Pay, Allowances, Dearness Allowance etc.

    
Supplementary Demand: It often happens that in the course of a financial year, expenditure has to be incurred on items and schemes for which approval of the Legislature has not been taken in the Annual Financial Statement (Budget) or expenditure has to be incurred on the items and services in excess of the amount voted by the Legislature in the Budget. It may not be practicable to obtain the approval of the Legislature as and when an expenditure has to be incurred urgently on new items or schemes during the course of the financial year. Hence, in such cases the expenditure is incurred by Government by sanctioning advances from the Contingency Fund pending approval of the Legislature. When the Legislature meets, a supplementary statement showing the estimated expenditure on all such items is laid before the Legislature and its approval taken.

Public Accounts Committee: At the close of the financial year, the Accountant General submits the Audit Report 'Finance Accounts' and the ' Appropriation Accounts' to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). PAC, which is formed from out of the members of Legislature, will examine the reports to know whether there are any  financial losses sustained by government through fraud, negligence, inefficiency etc., of government servants, failure to collect the estimated taxes, wasteful expenditure, etc.


Contents of Budget Document: The Budget documents generally contain four sets of figures: The Accounts of the previous year, Budget Estimates of the current year as originally presented to the Legislature, Revised Estimate for the current year and Budget Estimate for the ensuing year.



Revenue receipts: Revenue receipts of government will be under three distinct groups. Tax Revenue, Non-tax Revenue and Grants-in-aid and Contributions.


For the purpose of expenditure the transactions of Government have been brought under different functions representing major divisions of the efforts such as Education, Agriculture etc.
These different functions of government have been grouped into 3
distinct sections: They are
(1) General Services: Covering Police, General Administration, etc.,
which are indispensable to the existence of an organised State;
(2) Social Services: Covering activities associated with provision of
services needed for community living such as education, medical and
health, social security services, etc.
(3) Economic services: dealing with activities or assistance
provided to agencies in the fields of production and trade, such as
agriculture, industry, power, irrigation etc.


Budget Speech: The Budget Speech contains a review of the financial position of the State for the previous year, current year and the coming year. The main purpose of the Budget speech is to explain the policies and programmes of the government and how far they had been implemented during the previous year and how they are going to be introduced and implemented in future.

 
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From Revolution to Resurrection

By V V BALAKRISHNA
Published: 24th Aug 2014 06:00:00 AM

  HYDERABAD: Not so long ago, at the height of the poll campaign in March-April, the then Union Minister and Congress heavyweight Jairam Ramesh had predicted that if Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was voted to power, he would ruin the new state with his politics of regionalism. Three months on, KCR has proved Jairam wrong.

The 60-year-old chief minister of Telangana appears keen on proving himself as a good administrator besides being an agitator. In the last 80 days, KCR has surprised even senior babus with his working style. Soon after assuming office, he held a day-long brainstorming session with them and unveiled his vision for the development of the state and explained his immediate priorities. Since then, he has been after the babus to achieve his objective of giving a clean administration to the 4.5 crore people of Telangana.

Initially, senior IAS officers felt KCR’s review meetings were a ‘routine affair’ to understand the basics of administration. But, KCR has given a new thrust to administration. At the review meetings, he first explains his needs and priorities. Then, he discusses the same with the officials and seeks their views. Later, he fine-tunes the ideas and again seeks their opinion.

“The chief minister enquires about the functioning of every department.w He poses questions on the pros and cons of every programme. He suggests the best,” a senior IAS officer said. In the past two months, KCR has taken 45 decisions, including giving of `50,000 for wedding of tribal girls. He is also planning to construct two-bedroom flats for the poor, apart from distributing three acres of land to every dalit family; both poll promises.

The major step he has taken thus far is the controversial Intensive Household Survey to weed out bogus white ration cards, which are eating away the government’s money in the form of subsidy. Though this mammoth exercise, carried out on a single day (August 19), invited criticism of the Opposition, KCR remained unruffled.

Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh, ever since their formation on June 2, have had eyeball to eyeball confrontations on sharing of electricity, river waters, and implementing provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act-2014, such as vesting the Governor with special powers over Hyderabad’s law and order. On every issue, the Telangana chief minister hardened his stance, so as to send a clear message to the people of his state that protecting their interests is his top priority. As for maintaining relations with the Centre, KCR seems to be adopting a belligerent stance for the same reason.

He has taken on the Centre on two issues—merger of seven mandals in Telangana with AP to facilitate construction of the Polavaram Irrigation Project and special powers to the Governor over law & order in Hyderabad. At one point, he even called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a fascist. “If the Centre maintains good relations with us, we will reciprocate and vice-versa,” KCR said.

As TRS’s boss, KCR is formulating strategies to further strengthen the party by poaching Congress and TDP lawmakers. He has no qualms in promoting dynastic politics either. After all, his son K T Rama Rao holds key portfolios such as IT and Panchayat Raj in his Cabinet and his nephew T Harish Rao holds the major Irrigation portfolio. KCR’s daughter K Kavitha is a party MP from Nizamabad.

One-on-One

K Chandrasekhar Rao

● First-time CM

● Competes with Naidu in attracting investments

● Conducts review meetings for 12 hours a day

● No hesitation in taking on the Centre

● Son K T Rama Rao holds key IT portfolio in the Cabinet

Chandrababu Naidu

● Three-time CM

● Seasoned CEO, now struggling to develop another Hyderabad in AP

● Conducts video conferences with officials. Helps in ruling AP from Hyderabad

● Dependent on Centre for funds

● Son Lokesh remains behind-the-scenes

Mega Dream: Rs 22,000 Crore to Restore 45,300 Minor Irrigation Tanks

Express News Service


Hyderabad: The Telangana government has begun a massive work to restore 45,300 minor irrigation tanks at an estimated cost of ` 22,000 crore in the next five years. Each year around 9,000 tanks would be restored.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a meeting with officials of irrigation department here on Thursday and listed out his priorities. The Chief Minister also agreed to provide vehicle loans and petrol allowance to irrigation staff for executing the massive works. To begin with, the government would immediately sanction ` 20 crore for conducting a survey on 45,300 tanks.
Though there are a large number of tanks under panchayat raj department, the Chief Minister has decided them to bring all of them under irrigation department.

Kakatiya link

A large number of irrigation tanks were constructed by Kakatiya kings for providing drinking and irrigation water. Successive Nizam rulers too developed and protected them. The Bachawat tribunal allocated 175 tmc from Godavari and 90 tmc from Krishna to fill up minor irrigation tanks. Around 20 lakh acres of ayacut was under minor irrigation in those times .
The past governments had neglected the minor irrigation sector in Telangana, which is a lifeline of farmers. The farmers too over a period of time neglected desiltation of tanks and depended mostly on borewells.

Desiltation

Officials will start desiltation in village tanks in order to provide irrigation water to farmers. The extent of tanks will be widened with the consent of the locals. Desiltation will be taken up in all tanks within five years.
After desilting the tank, the black soil  will be diverted to the nearest farms to improve the fertility of the lands. Trees and  water hyacinth (gurrapu dekka) in the tanks will be removed and used as a firewood.
The estimated cost of the programme is ` 22,000 crore. Works will not be given on EPC basis. The entire work will be undertaken by the minor irrigation department itself. The State government will release some money, take funds from the Centre and also obtain loan from any one of the agencies - World Bank, JICA or Nabard. On an average the government is going to spend ` 50 lakh on each tank.

CM's Sramadan
All the Ministers, MP, MLAs, MLCs, officials and students will be involved in the project. District Collectors, students and Ministers should work for two days on a token basis. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao too will do 'Sramadanam' in all the districts, in order to create awareness among the people on restoring and preserving the tanks.

KCR to pen a song
An audio CD will be brought out with a song exclusively for the programme. This will create much-needed awareness among the people. The Chief Minister himself came forward to pen a song for the CD in local dialect. Cultural troops will be formed for spreading the message.


DISTRICT - TANKS - REPAIRS IN FIRST PHASE
Medak - 7,953 - 1,600
Mahbubnagar - 7,099 - 1,400
Karimnagar - 5,866 - 1,170
Warangal - 5,545 - 1,100
Nalgonda - 4,570 - 914
Khammam - 4,297 - 860
Adilabad - 3,779 - 755
Nizamabad - 3,673 - 735
Ranga Reddy - 2,550 - 510

CATEGORISATION OF TANKS

Irrigation tanks - 5,411
Panchayat raj tanks - 32,068
Percolation tanks - 4,962
Tanks in patta lands - 1,662

FOR grapHIC:

SOME DRIVE THIS
* All tanks to be brought under irrigation dept
* Laptops to mandal-level engineers
* Expansion of quality control cell
* Survey on lands of tanks
* NREGS to be linked with restoration of tanks
* To protect tanks in GHMC area too
* ` 5 lakh sanctioning power to SEs
* All Telangana engineers allotted to AP to be brought back
* To examine setting up of Godavari and Krishna river valley authorities
* To bring new Telangana Irrigation Act soon
* VRO at village level to protect the tanks
* Grievance cell at irrigation minister office

To regain the past glory of minor irrigation tanks in Telangana, the government has embarked upon a massive drive. The target is to restore 9,000 tanks every year