T-Effect on Railway Budget: Many sops for Telangana.

The 2010 Indian railway budget has got so many sops for the state of Andhra Pradesh. Incidentally more than 60% of the new trains and railways lines allocated for Andhra Pradesh are located in the Telangana region.

Thanks to KCR, the massive sops given to the Telangana region are due to Telangana movement which was incidentally started by him. So much so that after the announcement of the budget some TRS legislators were seen giving sweets to KCR.

Some TRS leaders have claimed that it is because of the Telangana agitation started by KCR, that the UPA government which has been ignoring the Telangana has at last given so much importance to it.

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader and former legislator Harish Rao said, “for the first time since the formation of Andhra Pradesh, so many new railway lines were sanctioned for the Telangana region”.

Meanwhile the Rosaiah government welcomed Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s budget that offered many sops to the state and gave special attention to the Telangana region.

For the first time in recent years, the state did not get a raw deal. The 2010-11 budget includes a railway wagon factory, a sports academy, 22 new railway lines and 14 new trains.

This is definitely something to cheer about.

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