Telengana announced 29th state of India, finally.
Finally Telengana becomes the 29th state of India. Announced today evening, the new state will share common capital with Andhra Pradesh from which the new state has been carved out. For next 10 years city of Hyderabad will serve as joint capital of the two states and thereafter it will solely become the capital of Telengana.
The new state comprises of 3.5 crore population, 17 Lok Sabha seats and 119 Assembly seats. It will have ten districts namely Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Medak, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Mahbubnagar, Warangal and Rangareddy.
Nine districts of Telengana region was earlier identified as backward by Backward Regions Grand Fund 2009-10. People of the state now hope they would overcome the challenges of backwardness and poverty after joining the Indian Union.
The state has 20 percent of total coal deposits of India. Other significant deposits are bauxite, mica and limestone. The region is classified as a semi-arid with hot and dry climate.
The demand for Telangana as a separate state started decades ago when the people of the region felt neglected by the state government whose leaders flouted the Gentlemen’s Agreement that facilitated the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956.
Meanwhile, the Telengana region has also served as fertile land for the Maoist insurgency and several Naxalite leaders hail from here including the slain Maoist Kishanji who was from the Karimnagar district and was number third in the rebels’ hierarchy.