Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to introduce the long-awaited women’s reservation bill and also take legislative measures to provide a 33 percent quota for OBCs in Parliament and state legislatures in the special session beginning September 18. He held a meeting with the BRS parliamentary party at Pragathi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Friday.
The meeting adopted a unanimous resolution to introduce the women’s reservation bill in the session. It also reiterated that a country will move forward on the path of development if the women are empowered at par with men in all fields. The Telangana government had passed a resolution in support of the women’s reservation bill in its first assembly meeting of the newly formed state on June 14, 2014, and had sent it to the central government to be introduced with immediate effect.
The meeting also demanded that the Centre should introduce the BC (OBC) Reservation Bill along with the women’s reservation bill in the upcoming special parliament session. In his letter, the chief minister has urged the prime minister to show commitment towards uplifting women and the people from backward communities by introducing both bills in parliament without fail.
He told Prime Minister Modi that the BRS-led Telangana government has been committed to the welfare of women and the backward castes in the state and has implemented a number of welfare schemes and development programmes in this regard. India can witness overall development after the BCs get proper representation in the legislative bodies across the nation and the same will be applicable to women also, he KCR said in his letter.
“You (MPs) demand for both bills. Telangana assembly has already made a relationship solution on it. You explain the need of the bills in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha,” KCR said.
Earlier, the CM had virtually inaugurated nine medical colleges across the state in Vikarabad, Sircilla, Karimnagar, Khammam, Jangaon, Asifabad, Nirmal, Kamareddy and Bhupalpally. Addressing the gathering, he said with the inauguration of new medical colleges, altogether there are as many as 26 medical colleges in the state. He announced that the government will inaugurate eight more medical colleges within a year.
“Telangana is going to deliver as many as 10,000 doctors to the country in the coming days annually. It is the only state that has 22 medical seats per one lakh population. The state has the capacity of supplying 500 tonnes of oxygen. As many as 10,000 super specialty beds are available across the state,” he said.
The Telangana government is implementing 30 percent reservation for women in public employment and admissions in educational institutions, he added. BRS MLC K Kavitha, KCR’s daughter, had held a dharna in Delhi in March seeking the passage of the women’s reservation bill.
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