HYDERABAD: Telangana state has completed seven years of its formation and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, seven years in power on Wednesday.
Though the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) government made rapid strides in agriculture, irrigation, power, industries sectors, welfare schemes etc in
the past seven years, it is facing a major challenge of keeping state
finances in order due to the Covid-induced financial crisis in its seventh
year.
On the political front, TRS and Chandrashekar Rao emerged stronger by
sweeping Graduate MLC polls, Warangal, Khammam corporation polls and
Nagarjunasagar bypoll recently though they faced minor setbacks in GHMC
polls and Dubbak bypoll in 2020-end.
The government is now struggling to fund its welfare schemes and development programmes forcing the state Cabinet to take a decision on May 30 to sell off government lands and housing board houses and flats to raise at least Rs 30,000 crore this year.
Telangana state came into…