Case for Statehood to Telangana
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Deprivation to Telangana: Case for Separate Statehood Submitted to Justice Sri Krishna Committee By Working Group for Preparation of Memorandum to Sri Krishna Committee Constituted by Telangana Development Forum (TDF-India) Hyderabad April 2010 Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Tables Chapter I - Context and Methodology ……………………………………………………………….………………….....7 Chapter II - Irrigation: Irreversible damage to Telangana ……………………………………………..…………..10 Chapter III - Power sector development: against Economic Logic.................................................…...23 Chapter IV - Development denied: Pattern of Revenue and Expenditure in Telangana ……….……….34 Chapter V - Employment: Saga of denial …………………………………………………………………..……………..40 Chapter VI - Discrimination in Education ……………………………………………………………………………….51 Chapter VII - Economic growth: Myth and reality ..…………………………………………………………………..60 Chapter VIII - Agriculture development: Quality and Sustainability .……………………………………….…65 Chapter IX - Violation of Rights in Telangana: Adivasis – Human Rights .……………………………….…73 Chapter X - Social inclusiveness in Telangana ……………………………………………………………….…………78 Chapter XI – Conclusion and way forward ……………………………………………………………………….……..83 2 List of Tables Table II.1: Status of Projects proposed in erstwhile Hyderabad state. Table II.2: Apportionment of Krishna Waters among the three regions in AP. Table II.3: Status of projects on Krishna River after 1956. Table II.4: Status of projects on River Godavari in Telangana. Table II.5: Past and present scenario in irrigated area under Major and Medium irrigation projects. Table III. 1: Status of Power Projects: Injustice to Telangana. Table III.2 List of Projects identified but not taken up in Telangana Region. Table III.3: Details of EHV Substations and Transmission lines in Mahaboobnagar District. Table III.4: Details of EHV Substations and Transmission lines in Karimanagr (Telangana), Anantapur, Kurnool and Kadapa (Seemandhra) District. Table III.5: Progress in Implementation of HVDS to Agricultural Pumpsets. Table III.6 : Progress in Electrification of Rural and Urban households under Indiramma Scheme upto 30-11-2009. Table III.7 : Release of Funds by REC Under RGGVY upto 30-11-2009. Table III.8: Region Wise Installed Capacities. Table III.9: Region Wise Demand. Table IV.1: Relative Shares of Andhra & Telangana in Revenue Receipts& Expenditure (%). TableIV.2: Relative Shares of the Regions in Revenue from Major Taxes (%). Table IV.3: Regional Shares in Revenue from Important Taxes & Non-Taxes and Expenditure on Important Services (%). Table IV.4: Relative Shares of Telangana in Revenue &Expenditure. Table V.1: Equalization of Services after 1956. Table V.2: Percentage of jobs held by non locals in 1983. Table V.3: The deviations identified by the Commission. Table VI.1: Literacy Rates (2001 Census). Table VI.2: Sub Region-wise Rates of Literacy. Table VI.3: Literacy Rates of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Table VI.4: Dropout Rates (Classes I-V), 2007-08. Table VI.5: Type Wise Number of Schools 2003-04 (%). 3 Table VI.6: Percentage Distribution of Schools, Enrolment and Teachers by Management across Regions of Andhra Pradesh, 2005-06. Table VI.7 Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (Rs. 0.0) in General and Education in Particular across Regions of Andhra Pradesh, 2004-05. Table VI.8: Number of Teachers in Government and Aided Degree Colleges. Table VI.9: Grant-in-Aid Released to Private Aided Degree Colleges (2008-09). Table VI.10: Per Capita Block Grant to the Six Old Universities (2004 to 2009). Table VII.1: Average Annual growth rate of GDDP by regions at 1993-94 prices (%). Table VII.2 Average annual growth rates –Agriculture by regions at 1993-94 prices (percent). Table VII.3 Average annual growth in Industries sector by regions at 1993-94 prices (%). Table VII.4 Percent contribution from Mining and Quarrying by regions at current prices. Table VII.5: Average Percent contribution of Real Estate and Public Administration by regions at 1999-00 prices between 2000-01 and 2007-08. Table VII.6: PCI at 1999-00 prices and District Domestic Product. Table VIII.1: Percentage of fallow lands to Geographical area. Table VIII.2: Trends in the Ratio of Irrigated to Rain fed Areas—AP (%). Table VIII.3: Relative Shares of Regions in Canal, Tank and Well Irrigation. Table VIII.4: Region wise Annual Compound Growth Rates (ACGR) of important indicators during 1956-2007. Table IX.1: Number of Encounter Killings in Telangana 4 Acknowledgements Prof CH Hanumantha Rao, former member, Planning Commission of India and presently Honorary Professor at Centre for Economic and Social Studies has taken his valuable time to go through every draft and give suggestions which have added value to the report. We thank Prof Rao profusely for guidance given all through. The attempt to prepare this report for submission to the Sri Krishna Committee has been initiated by the Telangana Development Forum [TDF – the organisation of Telangana NRI‟s worldwide], its chapters in both USA and India. It has convened a series of meetings to discuss on methodology, and logistics of preparing the report. Subsequently a working group has emerged and number of issues was identified for the report and experts in respective fields requested to contribute papers/ notes and experiences. The group consists of academics, scholars, engineers and technical experts. Special thanks to Sri DP Reddy convenor of TDF India, and his young team consisting of Sujai, Dileep, Amar, Madhav, Shiva Kumar, Aditya, Raja Reddy, Ranjith, Rajesh, and Varun for coordinating the meetings and making possible other required logistics. The following persons have contributed their papers, reports and notes for this comprehensive report. D Bheemaiah (SE (Retd), Irrigation Department) and R Vidyasagar Rao (Chief Engineer (Retd), CWC) on Irrigation; K Penta Reddy (SE(Retd), Electricity Department) and Raghu (Telangana Electricity Employees JAC) on Power Sector; M Devender Reddy (Telangana Agricultural Scientist Forum, NG Ranga Agricultural University), A Amarender Reddy (ASCI) and GP Reddy (NAARM) and A Venkateshwarlu (Assoc Prof, CESS) on Agricultural Development in Telangana; and E Revathi (Senior Fellow, ICSSR) on Economic Growth; S Sreedhara Swamy Professor (Retd), Osmania University) and K Jayashankar(Former Vice- chancellor, Kakatiya University) on Education; C. Vithal, Sridhar Deshpande and Padma Chary (Telangana Employees Association) on Employment; S Kishan Rao (Director, National Akademy of Development) on Revenue and Expenditure; K Vidyasagar Reddy (Assoc Professor Osmania University) on Social Inclusiveness; S Jeevan Kumar (Human Rights Forum) and B Sandhya (Progressive Organisation for Women) on Human rights violations in Telangana; M Venkatnarayana (Consultant on Economic issues) on Privatisation of Education in Telangana. We thank all of them for the timely contribution of their papers and notes. We have utilized for this purpose two papers by Prof CH Hanumantha Rao on Sectoral Planning for Telangana (1971) and Regional Disparities, Smaller States and Statehood for Telangana, (2009); Prof James and Subramainan‟s study on Towards DemographicTtransition (2003); Prof S Subramanyam‟s study on Regional Disparities in Andhra Pradesh at Millennium (2002); Human Development Report prepared by CESS and Late JM Girglani and Prof B Janardhan Rao‟s work on Adivasis in Telangana. We thank Prof Kodandram for the cooperation extended in preparing this report. 5 Prof B Janardhan Rao Memorial Foundation has conducted a one day workshop in February 2010 at Warangal on ‘Issues before Sri Krishna Committee’. We have also drafted notes presented by participants in the workshop into this report, especially note submitted on Methodology to analyse the Telangana Statehood Issue by S Galab (CESS). We thank all those who participated in the workshop for their inputs. We thank Ms Rachna Dhingra, Ms Lydia Research Scholars, Narender Reddy from CESS, young student friends Sambasiva Rao and Anil Kumar for extending cooperation in preparation of this report. Dr. E Revathi Coordinator Working Group for preparation of Memorandum To Sri Krishna Committee Hyderabad April, 2010 6 Chapter I Context and Methodology I.1 Context of the report Statehood for Telangana is nearly a six decade demand. It has acquired all qualities of a movement comprising of number of agitations at different phases. The context of Telangana is entirely different from the other backward regions of the state. The case of Telangana is one of exploitation. Telangana existed as a separate state having adequate natural, financial resources and got merged in the united state of Andhra Pradesh on pertinent agreements regarding due share in natural and financial resources and education and employment opportunities. The contribution of Telangana to the state‟s revenues has all along been more than 50 percent. The region is literally encircled by two major rivers of south India, Krishna and Godavari, and is traversed by a large number of tributaries of these rivers. It is one of the largest coal producing areas of the country and is rich in forest wealth and other natural resources and favourable land-man ratio. It has inherited from the much-maligned feudal regime fairly well developed assets like railway system, industrial units and the capital city. In spite of all these advantages the region has remained backward not only because of the neglect meted out to it but also because of the unending exploitation of its resources, natural