Hyderabad: Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday said Telangana once a worst drought-hit region, had become “Annapurna, rice bowl of the country” and gave full credit to K. Chandrashekar Rao government’s dedicated and determined efforts for the transformation.
Delivering the Republic Day speech at Public Gardens here, she also highlighted how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Bharat Biotech International Limited plant in the city to review the development of indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin had given great impetus to speed up the process of vaccination.
“We started the year 2021 with lot of optimism as the vaccination for Covid-19 has been started and is being administered on priority basis,” she said.
The Governor exuded confidence that the “yagna” of progress and development would be taken forward by the state government. The newly-born state has become the ‘Telangana model’ for the rest of the country. The successful…