SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
Kodangal: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is implementing a visionary development plan to transform Kodangal into a key industrial, educational and healthcare hub for Telangana, while steering the historically backward Palamuru region towards progress, said his deputy, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, on Monday, November 9.
These initiatives, he added, would create employment and livelihood opportunities for lakhs of young people in the coming years. The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking at a public meeting of farmers at the Lagacharla Industrial Corridor in Hakimpet, Kodangal constituency, alongside the Chief Minister, who is there on a three-day visit.
Explaining the infrastructure and industrial development plans, Bhatti Vikramarka said efforts were underway to improve road connectivity so that Kodangal could be reached within an hour from Hyderabad International Airport. The objective was to develop the region into an industrial destination, he said.
He said plans were being drawn up to develop around 5,000 acres for industrial activity, with 3,000 acres in Kodangal and 2,000 acres in Parigi. The Sitramapur and Chandanvelly regions would also be brought under the wider industrial development plan.
The Deputy Chief Minister said the industries would create jobs for local youth and help improve the economic conditions of families that had lived in poverty for generations, giving their children better prospects.
Kodangal an education hub
Education was as important as industrial growth, said Bhatti, adding that Kodangal was being transformed into an education hub through the establishment of several institutions, including a medical college, engineering college, polytechnic, ITI, women’s degree college, advanced technology centre, Young India Integrated Residential School, and Telangana Public School.
These institutions would ensure that local students no longer had to travel to distant places in search of quality education and higher learning opportunities, he said.
Irrigation facilities
The Deputy Chief Minister said the government was giving high priority to irrigation as part of the development of the Kodangal region.
He explained that the government was moving forward to provide irrigation facilities to approximately one lakh acres through the Makthal–Narayanpet–Kodangal Lift Irrigation Project by lifting water from the Krishna River through the Jurala region.
He said plans were afoot to ensure a continuous water supply also for future industries that would be established here later.
SOURCE : SIASAT
