Reconstruction of Telangana means reviving all of the lakes within the State, mentioned KCR.
Hyderabad:
Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao inaugurated a brand new Secretariat constructing, 265 ft tall and constructed over 10.5 lakh sq. ft in a sprawling 28 acres, in Hyderabad at present. “At present is a purple letter day within the historical past of Telangana,” he mentioned after inaugurating the construction.
“The marvel construction of the brand new Secretariat is the epicentre of the state administration. I really feel blessed and lucky to have inaugurated the great new secretariat,” he added.
The constructing has been named after BR Ambedkar with the intention that folks’s representatives and all the authorities equipment ought to work to grasp the beliefs of the Architect of the Indian Structure, the Chief Minister, popularly referred to as KCR, mentioned.
Slamming his detractors, KCR mentioned, “Some Political Lilliputs enemies created hurdles to the development of the brand new Secretariat by demolishing the previous constructing in the identical place”. “Reconstruction of Telangana means reviving all of the lakes within the State that remained dry because of lack of consideration within the undivided Andhra Pradesh,” he added.
A ‘Sudarsana Yagam’ was carried out from 6 AM and Mr Rao occupied his chambers on the sixth flooring within the newly-constructed constructing after the rituals concluded at round 1.30 PM. The Ministers of the State authorities additionally occupied their respective chambers.
KCR on the newly-constructed constructing.
Contemplating the inadequacies of the previous Secretariat advanced constructed throughout undivided Andhra Pradesh, a government-appointed professional committee favoured the development of a brand new constructing.
The Chief Minister laid the inspiration stone for the development of the Secretariat on June 27, 2019, however the works began solely in January 2021, delayed by the covid-19 pandemic, court docket instances and different points.
Vemula Prashant Reddy, minister of Legislative Affairs and Housing of Telangana, had mentioned the brand new Secretariat will expedite the completion of labor and coordination between the ministers, secretaries and officers.
“The older secretariat had blocks which had been 70 years previous, just a few had been 40 years previous, and a few others, constructed 20 years in the past seem previous and unorganised. The ministers, secretaries, and different officers used to take a seat at completely different blocks, which made the work a prolonged and difficult affair,” Mr Reddy mentioned.
The domes of the brand new Secretariat have been constructed within the types of the Neelakanteswara Swamy temple of the Kakatiya interval in Nizamabad, designs of the palaces of the royals of Wanaparthy ‘Samsthanam’ in Telangana and the sample of the Hanuman temple in Sarangpur, Gujarat, in keeping with a authorities launch.