HYDERABAD: Ahead of the Union Budget, which is to be presented on February 1, Telangana industries minister KT Rama Rao has written nearly half a dozen letters to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking budgetary support of over 14,000 crore for key industrial projects set to come up in Telangana.
These include the projects like Hyderabad-Bengaluru, Hyderabad-Vijayawada, Hyderabad-Warangal and Hyderabad-Nagpur industrial corridors as well as the Hyderabad Pharma City project that has bagged the National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) status.
KTR has urged the FM to sanction additional nodes at Mancherial (3,000 acres) under the Hyderabad-Nagpur corridor, Huzurabad as part of the Hyderabad-Vijayawada corridor and Jadcherla-Gadwal-Kothaguda node under the Hyderabad-Bengaluru corridor.
On the approved nodes at Hyderabad Pharma City and NIMZ Zaheerabad under the Hyderabad-Warangal and Hyderabad-Nagpur corridors, that the Centre has agreed to fund, KTR has asked for a budgetary provision of 2,000 crore each.
He has also sought release of grant in aid of over 5,000 crore for the master planning as well as development of internal, external and technical infrastructure for the establishment of Hyderabad Pharma City as a NIMZ in Rangareddy district. KTR has also made a pitch to Sitharaman to include Hyderabad in the proposed defence industrial production corridor.