ISSUE ON TELANGANA
1. What is Telangana?
2. What is Telangana movement?
3. Why the Telangana people agitate to form a new state?
4. Is Telangana region still economically backward compared to other regions of Andhra pradesh?
5. Is Telanganaunder represented in legislative bodies and state government?
6. Reason why people are behind the formation of Telangana
7. Reason why people Against the formation of Telangana
What is Telangana?
Telangana is a new proposed state to be formed out of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
The city of Hyderabad would serve as the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for ten years.
On 30 July 2013, the ruling Congress party resolved to request the Central government to make steps in accordance with the Constitution to form a separate state of Telangana (the 29th state of Republic of India), within a definite timeframe.
The timeline for the creation of the new state involves an elaborate process, which has been allotted a 122 days, or at least four months.
The split has to be approved by the Parliament of India before the state is officially created.
What is telangana movement?
The Telangana movement refers to a group of related political activities organised to support the creation of a new state of Telangana, from the existing state of Andhra Pradesh in South India.
The proposed new state corresponds to the Telugu-speaking portions of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad.
Why the Telangana people agitate to form a new state?
Apart from sharing a common language, the people of Andhra and Telangana have different dialects, histories, cultural systems and different food habits.
Telangana is a part of Andhra Pradesh and constitutes 41.47% of its total area, 40.54% of the state’s population and contributes about 76% of the state’s revenues (this is mainly because Hyderabad is also considered a part of Telangana, excluding that the cumulative share of the rest of Telangana is currently lower than most other districts of AP).
Within the state, 68.5% of River Krishna’s and 69% of River Godavari’s catchment areas are located in the Telangana region.
This water is distributed as follows: 74.25% to coastal AP, 18.2% to Telangana and 7.55% to Rayalaseema regions.
The literacy rate of Telangana is 54% compared to around 67% in coastal Andhra Pradesh.
As a result, more employment opportunities are available for people from the other parts of the state and even with its population, less than 5% of department heads in the AP government belong to this region.
Like in any case of widening gulfs between the rich and the poor, this trend has been continuing for some time now.
The stats about literacy are skewed because Telangana itself started with a disadvantage and growth in literacy rates in Telanagana have been the highest in AP at 180.06%. [Credit: Shashank Emami (comments)] Such disparity exist in other fields too such as power distribution, availability of minerals and rate of urbanization.
By creation of a new state, Telangana is expected to be governed by persons who share a common culture and perhaps attain commendable rates of growth like other recently created states like Uttarkhand and Chhatisgarh (refer to citations), although Jharkhand did not benefit as much.
Is Telangana region still economically backward compared to other regions of Andhra pradesh?
Andhra pradesh is divided in to three regions
1) Coastal Andhra
2) Rayalseema
3) Telangana.
Rayalseema is most backward among three regions.
The SriKrishna committee report remarked that “It is a fact that most of the economic and developmental parameters show that Telangana (excluding Hyderabad city but including Hyderabad suburbs) is either on par with or a shade lower than Coastal Andhra.
Thus, on the whole, it would appear that the deprived region is Rayalaseema not Telangana.
Is Telanganaunder represented in legislative bodies and state government?
Yes, only 20% of the total Government employees, less than 10% of employees in the secretariat, and less than 5% of department heads in the Andhra Pradesh government are from Telangana; those from other regions make up the bulk of employment.
Telangana held the position of CM for 10.5 years while Seema-Andhra region held it for 42 year. This is main area of concern which makes people of telangana feel like deprived and exploited.
Reason why people are behind the formation of Telangana
Small administrative units in general are good for governance. Whether it is Goa, Chandigarh, NCR or even Kerala, the level of governance and human indicators are much better than their larger neighbors. After the last split, the newly formed smaller states were able to grow faster than before.
In India, democracy exists only at National and State level. Nobody cares about the regional level and the local bodies are seldom democratic. Thus, when you have a large state with diverse needs and local bodies that are essentially weak & undemocratic, you can have very skewed development.
It is time we start putting an end to the linguistic-organized states. While it promotes local languages somewhat, there is also a high degree of parochialism that distracts us from the top level nationalism. Telegana could be a fitting start (AP was the first state to divided out of linguistic differences) to start reorganizing India into natural or organization boundaries.
Some parts of the region are underdeveloped compared to other parts of the state.
All the agreements which were agreed upon to give the telangana people an equal preference in the state administration were not followed.
The allocation of funds to the region has not been proper in comparison to other parts of the state.
Reason why people Against the formation of Telangana
A lot of people from other parts of AP have invested a lot in the growth of Hyderabad. Thus, the future of Hyderabad will be really messy if Telegana were to split.
Andhra has had 3 capitals since independence (Madras, Kurnool, Hyderabad) and changing capital once again can be a huge distraction to development.
The chaos, confusion, migration and violence from the division can set back the state by a decade or more.
An extra government, with set of IAS officers and all its paraphernalia can really burden Indian exchequer.
Decentralization of power is necessary if India is to prosper. But the problem is no two neighboring states of India get along all that well.
The primary reason for this is resources.
Karnataka and Tamilnadu have the Kaveryissue .
Karnataka and Andhra pradesh had Almattiissue .
Tamilnadu and Kerala have Mullaperiyar dam issue .
Even the historically friendly states Tamilnadu and Andhra pradesh had Madras issue .
I can so foresee Telangana and Andhra people fighting over Krishna and Godavari water, resulting in at least 10 casualties per year. In fact, that’s one of the primary points of separate Telangana movement — give us our water.
It is the first state in India which wants to separate along with the existing capital (Hyderabad). This causes a lot of opposition in other regions of the state as they all have been part of the capital city development in the last 50 years.
Every region of the state has underdeveloped regions and looking at the averages , the rayalaseema region is most underdeveloped.
There were 598 provinces in pre-independence era and if all such entities want a separate entity because they have different history than other regions of the state, it would lead to a national chaos.
All the adminstrative agreements and the funds allocation can be monitored by consituting a constitutionally empowered board or a council.
The major contention point is the Hyderabad. All the regions of the Andhra Pradesh require Hyderabad for their economic growth and in past has been part of development of the city.
SOURCE:
1. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/telangana-inevitable-and-desirable/article80961.ece
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telangana
3. http://www.telangana.com
K.Manikandan,
1. What is Telangana?
2. What is Telangana movement?
3. Why the Telangana people agitate to form a new state?
4. Is Telangana region still economically backward compared to other regions of Andhra pradesh?
5. Is Telanganaunder represented in legislative bodies and state government?
6. Reason why people are behind the formation of Telangana
7. Reason why people Against the formation of Telangana
What is Telangana?
Telangana is a new proposed state to be formed out of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
The city of Hyderabad would serve as the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for ten years.
On 30 July 2013, the ruling Congress party resolved to request the Central government to make steps in accordance with the Constitution to form a separate state of Telangana (the 29th state of Republic of India), within a definite timeframe.
The timeline for the creation of the new state involves an elaborate process, which has been allotted a 122 days, or at least four months.
The split has to be approved by the Parliament of India before the state is officially created.
What is telangana movement?
The Telangana movement refers to a group of related political activities organised to support the creation of a new state of Telangana, from the existing state of Andhra Pradesh in South India.
The proposed new state corresponds to the Telugu-speaking portions of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad.
Why the Telangana people agitate to form a new state?
Apart from sharing a common language, the people of Andhra and Telangana have different dialects, histories, cultural systems and different food habits.
Telangana is a part of Andhra Pradesh and constitutes 41.47% of its total area, 40.54% of the state’s population and contributes about 76% of the state’s revenues (this is mainly because Hyderabad is also considered a part of Telangana, excluding that the cumulative share of the rest of Telangana is currently lower than most other districts of AP).
Within the state, 68.5% of River Krishna’s and 69% of River Godavari’s catchment areas are located in the Telangana region.
This water is distributed as follows: 74.25% to coastal AP, 18.2% to Telangana and 7.55% to Rayalaseema regions.
The literacy rate of Telangana is 54% compared to around 67% in coastal Andhra Pradesh.
As a result, more employment opportunities are available for people from the other parts of the state and even with its population, less than 5% of department heads in the AP government belong to this region.
Like in any case of widening gulfs between the rich and the poor, this trend has been continuing for some time now.
The stats about literacy are skewed because Telangana itself started with a disadvantage and growth in literacy rates in Telanagana have been the highest in AP at 180.06%. [Credit: Shashank Emami (comments)] Such disparity exist in other fields too such as power distribution, availability of minerals and rate of urbanization.
By creation of a new state, Telangana is expected to be governed by persons who share a common culture and perhaps attain commendable rates of growth like other recently created states like Uttarkhand and Chhatisgarh (refer to citations), although Jharkhand did not benefit as much.
Is Telangana region still economically backward compared to other regions of Andhra pradesh?
Andhra pradesh is divided in to three regions
1) Coastal Andhra
2) Rayalseema
3) Telangana.
Rayalseema is most backward among three regions.
The SriKrishna committee report remarked that “It is a fact that most of the economic and developmental parameters show that Telangana (excluding Hyderabad city but including Hyderabad suburbs) is either on par with or a shade lower than Coastal Andhra.
Thus, on the whole, it would appear that the deprived region is Rayalaseema not Telangana.
Is Telanganaunder represented in legislative bodies and state government?
Yes, only 20% of the total Government employees, less than 10% of employees in the secretariat, and less than 5% of department heads in the Andhra Pradesh government are from Telangana; those from other regions make up the bulk of employment.
Telangana held the position of CM for 10.5 years while Seema-Andhra region held it for 42 year. This is main area of concern which makes people of telangana feel like deprived and exploited.
Reason why people are behind the formation of Telangana
Small administrative units in general are good for governance. Whether it is Goa, Chandigarh, NCR or even Kerala, the level of governance and human indicators are much better than their larger neighbors. After the last split, the newly formed smaller states were able to grow faster than before.
In India, democracy exists only at National and State level. Nobody cares about the regional level and the local bodies are seldom democratic. Thus, when you have a large state with diverse needs and local bodies that are essentially weak & undemocratic, you can have very skewed development.
It is time we start putting an end to the linguistic-organized states. While it promotes local languages somewhat, there is also a high degree of parochialism that distracts us from the top level nationalism. Telegana could be a fitting start (AP was the first state to divided out of linguistic differences) to start reorganizing India into natural or organization boundaries.
Some parts of the region are underdeveloped compared to other parts of the state.
All the agreements which were agreed upon to give the telangana people an equal preference in the state administration were not followed.
The allocation of funds to the region has not been proper in comparison to other parts of the state.
Reason why people Against the formation of Telangana
A lot of people from other parts of AP have invested a lot in the growth of Hyderabad. Thus, the future of Hyderabad will be really messy if Telegana were to split.
Andhra has had 3 capitals since independence (Madras, Kurnool, Hyderabad) and changing capital once again can be a huge distraction to development.
The chaos, confusion, migration and violence from the division can set back the state by a decade or more.
An extra government, with set of IAS officers and all its paraphernalia can really burden Indian exchequer.
Decentralization of power is necessary if India is to prosper. But the problem is no two neighboring states of India get along all that well.
The primary reason for this is resources.
Karnataka and Tamilnadu have the Kaveryissue .
Karnataka and Andhra pradesh had Almattiissue .
Tamilnadu and Kerala have Mullaperiyar dam issue .
Even the historically friendly states Tamilnadu and Andhra pradesh had Madras issue .
I can so foresee Telangana and Andhra people fighting over Krishna and Godavari water, resulting in at least 10 casualties per year. In fact, that’s one of the primary points of separate Telangana movement — give us our water.
It is the first state in India which wants to separate along with the existing capital (Hyderabad). This causes a lot of opposition in other regions of the state as they all have been part of the capital city development in the last 50 years.
Every region of the state has underdeveloped regions and looking at the averages , the rayalaseema region is most underdeveloped.
There were 598 provinces in pre-independence era and if all such entities want a separate entity because they have different history than other regions of the state, it would lead to a national chaos.
All the adminstrative agreements and the funds allocation can be monitored by consituting a constitutionally empowered board or a council.
The major contention point is the Hyderabad. All the regions of the Andhra Pradesh require Hyderabad for their economic growth and in past has been part of development of the city.
SOURCE:
1. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/telangana-inevitable-and-desirable/article80961.ece
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telangana
3. http://www.telangana.com
K.Manikandan,
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