Not every claim made by the proponents of Telangana is false. For example, concerns about Rajolibanda water allocated to Telangana being misappropriated are valid. Worries about projects such as Singur being diverted to city’s drinking water purposes instead of irrigation is an important issue to consider. Concerns regarding sky-high investments being made into the Polavaram Project with questionable returns are worth serious consideration. Our leaders must sort out these issues through a democratic process, and demanding separation is not the solution.

If the separatist leaders are serious about helping the farmers of Nizam Telangana, they should:

1) Fight for effective use of the entire 366 TMC of Krishna wate allocated to the Nizam Telangana     region. Just eliminating seepage in the canals and removing silt from the reservoirs could     dramatically improve canal water utility.

2) Similarly, productively use every drop of Godavari water awarded to the region.

3) Develop tank irrigation and at least restore it to a state where it was a few hundred years ago.

4) Fight against neighboring states illegally tapping water.

These simple non-controversial initiatives would dramatically improve the agriculture sector in Nizam Telangana and are relatively easy to accomplish. Instead, our separatist leaders obsess over neighboring Kosta region’s prosperity and neglect to look into ways to develop our own districts.

INDUSTRIES

Professor Jayashankar wrote, “No major industry worth its name has been setup in any districts of Telangana region as compared to the establishment of several industries in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Kakinada, Nellore, Tirupati, and Cuddapah.”

Let’s look at Table 12 showing the factory employment data by region and see if the profiessor is yet again making up facts to push forward his separatist agenda.