The media is/has always been pro-division. Probably because all the media houses are in Hyderabad? And the general perception there is that Telangana has been exploited over years?
Whatever, some of the claims of exploitation by pro-Telangana sites, universities, politicians, activists have been outrageous. This makes Telangana people see only the injustices but ignore the far superior benefits of a unified Andhra.
People have made it a career to create fabricated statistics, of course, without quoting the sources.
I was surprised recently when Human index numbers are better for Telangana than rest of AP. One can always find some minister favoring his constituency and some times himself. What one has to finally compare are the macro economic numbers, fund allocation numbers and natural resource utilization numbers. As these numbers are coming out, I feel my perception was wrong.
The river water utilization is claimed to be biased against Telangana. Then, somebody tells that Telangana is at a high level compared to the sea level and one needs expensive and non-feasible lift irrigation schemes. The number of hectares brought under irrigation of different regions is found to be proportional to the population. What is the problem then? The pro-T claims quote the percentage of land under irrigation. Come on, what is there is not water, what if it is forest area, what if it is high altitude. How can anyone use river water for that? Ponds and reservoirs are then the solution and that seems to have been done in proportion to the popultion.
The jobs. How can anybody blame the private sector? Telangana people have benefitted immensely from the investments of people of all regions. Govt. jobs, there is 610 GO which makes sure that locals are employed for all regions except Hyderabad. How many govt jobs are there in Hyderabad as a portion of total jobs in the state. Why should people cry so much if there is some "injustice" there?
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