LAND, EXCISE, AND SALES REVENUE COLLECTION IN LAKHS (Table 15)
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Here is how Professor Jayashankar arrives at the 75% tax figure. He
includes the revenue collected in the capital city of Hyderabad in the Telangana
bucket. Why is that devious? It is devious because many corporations from
across the three regions of the state are headquartered in Hyderabad and tend
to register their tax payments from the capital city. In addition, Hyderabad,
with its wealthier population, contributes significantly to the sales tax. So,
what happens if we exclude the city of Hyderabad from the Telangana region?
Tax collection drops steeply.
Doesn’t Vice Chancellor Jayashankar, the brains behind the Telangana
movement, know something this basic? Of course, he does. In his quest to
incite the Telangana people against other regions, he probably believes that
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STANDARD OF LIVING
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All things said and done, the bottom-line indicator of economic well being is people’s standard of living. Economists widely agree per capita GDP
is a reasonable proxy to gauge people’s economic well being. Table 16 shows
how each region stacks up in this category.
People living in the Telangana region, excluding the capital city of
Hyderabad, have a per capita GDP of Rs. 23,940. It is about 10% less than
that of their Kosta counterparts. As usual, the situation in Rayalaseema is
worse than that of Nizam Telangana.
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