MANIFESTO OF TELANGANA PRAJA SAMITHI 2014 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS TO TELANGANA

Telangana Praja Samithi promises

1. Pension for all those who participated in the 1969 Telangana Movement and Government jobs for one family member of the Amaraveeralu of the current agitation.

Telangana Praja Samithi, promises that it will provide pension to all those who were part of the 1969 Telangana agitation. They have sowed the seeds for the new state, and it is a very small gesture of gratitude from us, and the future of Telangana to our elders. We will also provide opportunities for jobs in the Government for one person from the family of all those who have sacrificed their life for Telangana.

2. All cases registered during the Telangana Movement against students and NGO’s to be lifted.

3. Academic year 2013-2014 to be declared a ZERO FAIL Year, for SSC, Intermediate, Degree and Post Graduate courses.

Our students have borne the brunt of our struggle and faced the lathis and government persecution head on. The students and the teaching faculty are apprehensive of the vengeance that the Seemandhra teachers and people correcting the answer sheets for all board and university exams will vent on the students of Telangana. We have seen how the students of Telangana were deliberately failed in earlier years, and this year the failure rate will be much higher because of the harsh and vicious correction of answer scripts by the evaluators of Seemandhra. Telangana Praja Samithi will blunt this attempt to sabotage the careers of our students by making the 2013-2014 academic year, a ZERO FAIL year. All students appearing for SSC, Intermediate, and Degree and Post Graduate exams conducted in Telangana will be passed in all subjects the student appears for.

4. Telangana Praja Samithi will continue its fight to protect the soil and water of Telangana. We will not let go even an inch of Telangana’s soil or a drop of water that belongs to Telangana to other states. The 135 villages in Khammam that have been illegally transferred to Andhra Pradesh will not be relinquished.

5. Telangana Praja Samithi will reclaim the lands in Telangana and Hyderabad that were given unlawfully to the Seemaandhra settlers.  Telangana Praja Samithi will especially relook at the lands in Telangana that were allotted to the Seemaandhra’s from the beginning of 1983.

6. Nativity to be considered for employment in Telangana. All personnel who have secured employment in Telangana unlawfully will be sent back to their home state
7. The educated and technically qualified youth of today enters the private sector with hopes and aspirations, but in quiet a few cases the Management fails to pay the wages for months on end, citing various reasons, pushing the young into a financial mess. To address this we will set up a Salary Assurance Fund, for the people working in the private sector. This fund will provide financial support to those employed in the private sector if their Management fails to pay their salaries.

8. Government industries sold off to private players and now closed will be reclaimed and restarted

9. Telangana Praja Samithi will regularize the services of all contract and daily wage employees.

10. Telangana Praja Samithi will at a minimum allocate 8% of the Government Expenditure for education, a major part of this will be to set up primary and adult education centers and Government schools in the tribal and remote districts.

11. We propose to set up a primary school for every 10,000 people in rural areas and a primary school for every 20000 people in urban areas. To address the education needs of people living in the tribal belts, we aim to combine skill development at the adult level with primary education.

12. Promote English education, for the youth of Telangana to be a part of the global growth story they have to learn, to speak and read English. We will also protect the local language whether it is Telugu, Hindi, or Urdu as the first and second language.

13. Telangana Praja Samithi set up Universities in Khammam, Karimnagar, Nalgonda and a Women’s University in Mahaboobnagar.

14. Establish a Health University in Hyderabad, and Government Medical colleges in all Telangana districts.

15. Establish livelihood training centers in the backward and tribal areas.

16. Telangana Praja Samithi will set up a Government medical college and multi-specialty hospital in every district headquarter of Telangana. And a Primary Health care center/community hospital for every cluster of 1,00,000 people in Urban areas and 10,000 in rural areas.

17. Doctors and nurses serving hospitals in the rural areas will be paid a hardship allowance to incentivize them. Also every doctor who completes 5 years of service in a rural hospital will be eligible for further education in a foreign University to be sponsored by the Government.

18. Super specialty hospitality on the lines of AIIMS to be set up in Hyderabad.

  

19. Promote health tourism in Telangana.

20. Set up at a minimum 10000 birthing centers in village clusters, serviced by trained midwives with access to the latest in prenatal and post natal medical care. This will help reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate and Infant Mortality rate in Telangana.

21. Telangana Praja Samithi will develop and promote Hyderabad as the disaster recovery and second site for the Financial and Banking industry in Mumbai. A financial and banking services corridor to be developed connecting Hyderabad, Mahboobnagar and Bangalore.

22. Develop each district as a hub of a specific industry for eg. Warangal to be developed as a hub for the textile industry with incentives and tax benefits, Nizamabad to set up as hub of sugar and confectionery and food processing industry.

23. Development of a second airport in Telangana

24. Solar and Wind energy parks will be developed

25. We will provide uninterrupted power to industry and incentivize industry using non- conventional energy sources

26. Incentives for job creation and hiring of people belonging to the disadvantaged sections of society

27. Privatization of Government undertakings to be stopped

28. Efforts will be made to set up a Railway Coach factory in Warangal

29. To aid Grassroot entrepreneurship, Telangana Praja Samithi will set up an Entrepreneur Support Center that will provide guidance and support to small time entrepreneurs in setting up their business

30. Power generated in Telangana will be used in Telangana only

31. Where the coal from Telangana is being sold to power plants in Andhra Pradesh, a mechanism for pricing will be negotiated again

32. Power deficit in T-state must be compensated by the Central government

33. We propose to setup atleast two thermal power plants in Telangana

  

34. Telangana Praja Samithi will provide Rs. 5 lakh ex gratia to the families of the farmers who have committed suicide, within three months of the completion of the investigation

35. A special package of Rs.1500 crore for the waiver of loans for the farmers, whose crops have been damaged in the recent hailstorms

36. Crop insurance scheme to be set for the farmers

37. Telangana Praja Samithi promises day-time electricity for farmers by shifting to solar pump sets and solar power and by prioritizing agriculture in power supply

38. Conservation, protection and restoration of lakes and water bodies will be the priority of the Telangana Praja Samithi.

39. We will build water tanks and lakes and reduce reliance on river water for irrigation and drinking water

40. For the safety and security of women, Telangana Praja Samithi will set up Rani Rudramma Devi camps, which will train women in self-defense and also provide basic life skills to women and young girls.

41. TPS will set up a Rapid Response Team with a single hot line number for Women

42. We will provide incentives to the private sector if women form more than 40% of their workforce

43. We will build and strengthen the road network in Telangana. We propose to link even the remotest village or hamlet to the National Highway network, by constructing tar and cement roads.

44. We will promote tourism in Telangana

45. We will make access to public places disabled friendly

Preface to the Manifesto of Telangana Praja Samithi

After more than 50 years of Struggle the people of Telangana, have achieved their right to determine their own destiny, it is with the vision of development and social justice that Telangana state has been formed. Development and Social Justice are the twin pillars of a healthy and secure society, one without the other is hollow and short-lived, Development without social justice will lead to skewed growth, with pockets of affluence amidst a sea of deprivation, and social justice without development is a non-starter. Development with Social Justice is the need of the hour, and the only way forward for any state. The manifesto of Telangana Praja Samithi aims to address this core belief of ours and aims to fulfill the aspirations of the thousands who have struggled relentlessly for the state of Telangana.

It is sad, that just a few weeks into the new state, we have the same people who are synonymous with corruption, intimidation, and nepotism, vying for public office. What Telangana needs is a clean and caring, efficient and enlightened government. Telangana Praja Samithi intends to be the Government that Telangana needs, a government that serves the people that facilitates development and equality.

The challenges in Telangana are many, on the one hand we have a flourishing city at the peak of technological advancement, while in the tribal areas children still do not go to school and literary is near zero. On the one hand Hyderabad is a destination for medical tourism while on the other we have thousands of villages with no access to primary health care, the challenge for the Government will be to maintain the former on the fast track and also work hard to bring the backward regions and people on par with global living standards.

The Telangana Praja Samithi believes an environment must be created for businesses to grow, but grow honestly and not through crony capitalism.

Besides entry to public office especially into the main stream political arena is slowly being confined to a few by virtue of birth, we are slowly seeing a slow and systematic exclusion of public participation in public life at all levels. Right from the grassroots of the system, the Panchayats to the highest levels of the Government, posts are being claimed and granted on the basis of birth and patrilineal and matrilineal heritage. Telangana Praja Samithi is against this exclusivist and elitist culture and believes that each and every citizen of India has an equal right to aspire for and hold public office. We hope to be the change agent for the reformation of public life.

We have endeavored to address the issues we believe are critical to the Development of Telangana, and we would have achieved our objective if it serves as a starting point for a new way of thinking, working and living in Telangana.