Yesterday the whole of
the nation saw the dawn of a new epoch, a new era. An era in which mother India
has 29 states. The morning of 2nd June, 2014 saw the bearing of the
fruit of around 48 years, the date which delivered happiness and extreme ravishment
to the people of the new state, the people who have been fighting for the cause
of their welfare, for the life of those who sacrificed themselves in order to
assert the demands of their people, the remarkable date of 2nd June
brought with itself a new son of mother India, the state of Telangana.
The demand for creation
of Telangana was ultimately accepted by the Union Government and in the year
2014 the month of June became the harbinger of the prosperity of the people of
the state. For a very long time there has been a demand to make Telangana a
separate state, carved out of the region of Andhra. Since the very beginning
the people of Telangana have been unhappy over the inclusion of Telangana
region into the Andhra region. People were angry and resented because the
region of Telangana was not getting due welfare and prosperity because of the
indifference shown by the various governments in the Andhra Pradesh and this
marked the beginning of a new movement in the whole of the nation to carve out
a completely new state which would be able to secure welfare as well as
prosperity for itself.
Telangana is the largest of the three regions of Andhra Pradesh
state, covering 41.47% of its total area. It is inhabited by 40.54% of the
state's population and contributes about 76% of the state's revenues including
the Hyderabad city revenue (50%), excluding the contribution of the central
government. When the central government's contribution to revenue is included,
Andhra Pradesh's revenue sources come from Telangana: 61.47% (including 37.17%
from Hyderabad); from the central government: 19.86%; from Andhra: 14.71%; and
from Rayalaseema: 3.90%.
Proponents of a separate Telangana state cite perceived injustices in the
distribution of water, budget allocations, and jobs.
Within the state of
Andhra Pradesh, 68.5% of the catchment
area of the Krishna River and 69% of the catchment area of the Godavari
River are in the plateau region
of Telangana and flowing through the other parts of the state into bay of
Bengal. Telangana and non-coastal
parts of Karnataka and Maharashtra
states form Deccan Plateau.
The share of education funding
for Telangana ranges from 9.86% in government-aided primary schools to 37.85%
in government degree colleges. The above numbers include the expenditure in
Hyderabad. Budget allocations to Telangana are generally less than 1/3 of the
total Andhra Pradesh budget. There are allegations that in most years, funds
allocated to Telangana were never spent.
Proponents of a separate
Telangana state feel that the agreements, plans, and assurances from the
legislature and Lok Sabha over the last fifty years have not been honoured, and
as a consequence Telangana has remained neglected, exploited, and backward.
They allege that the experiment to remain as one state has proven to be a
futile exercise and that separation is the best solution.
If we watch the situation carefully then the creation of the new
state of Telangana is in itself a very remarkable move. A state could only
progress if its people are happy under a regime. If the people of the state
remain unhappy and fell unsecured about their present and future, then that
state could hardly function ever. A state is indeed nothing but a collection of
large group of people and if the state can’t even safeguard the interest of
these people then, it’s rules definitely need to mended and tampered to suit
what’s best for the people of the state or if these things are not done then at
last the state will itself vanish out in the pages of history and that’s why I
believe that the creation of the state of Telangana is a good move in all.
The state of Telangana for a very long time has been neglected
and snubbed out of progress. If we go according to the figures then 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. Even Chief Ministers from the Telangana region
have never done anything to carry out progress work in the Telangana region.
And this at last led to the protests by people which ultimately led to the
crafting of a completely new state which would now be able to prosper, progress
and produce for its own benefit and for the happiness and welfare of its own
people.
Telangana has been made after a lot of struggle
from the people of the state, some even killed themselves. The state has been
the expectation of people for more than 40 years and now when it has been born,
what we have to see is that this dream doesn’t cripple down and there now the
whole India needs to unite to help this new state climb up the ladders of success.
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