KCR Meets PM Narendra Modi, Submits 14 Demands

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao submitted a list of 14 demands for Telangana, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi on Saturday.

During his 45-minute meeting, KCR submitted 14 separate memoranda to the Prime Minister, giving details of the specific needs of Telangana.

Briefing media persons later, TRS MP Jithender Reddy said that Modi had assured to look into the demands made by KCR.

Reddy also said that KCR himself would brief the media about his interactions with the Prime Minister and the other leaders, on Sunday.

The demands made by KCR to the Prime Minister include special category status for Telangana, declaration of national project status to the Pranahita-Chevella dam, tax incentives, a 4,000 MW power project, a separate High Court for the new State, development of Hyderabad urban agglomeration as a slum-free city, conservation of the Musi River on the lines of the Sabarmati River of Gujarat, establishment of horticulture and tribal universities, development of roads and upgradation of some roads as National Highways, setting up of the steel plant in Bayyaram of Khammam, railway projects and conservation of the forest land in Telangana. (INN)