HYDERABAD: The Telangana government will continue its fight to get the central government’s nod on increasing reservations for Muslims and STs, governor ESL Narasimhan said on Saturday. The government had proposed enhancement of reservation from four to 12% for Muslims (BC-E category) and six to 10% for STs and forwarded the assembly resolutions to the Centre almost two years ago.“The government will implement the report of the committee appointed for drafting schemes for integrated development of SCs and STs. It will continue to press for implementation of 33% reservation to BCs and 33% reservation to women in legislatures. The SC categorisation resolution of the assembly was also forwarded to the Centre,” Narasimhan said while addressing the joint session of the assembly and council on Saturday.He said that the state government would initiate and implement new plans and schemes as per the aspirations of the people in the next few years. In the last four and half years, it had implemented several schemes that were not mentioned in the manifesto. It was committed to make the state Bangaru Telangana, he said.Narasimhan said priority was given to agriculture, power, irrigation , rejuvenation of rural economy, promotion of industrial and IT sector and health sectors.Telangana registered the highest growth rate in India, he said, adding that, “From 2014-2018, the state had achieved 17.17% compound annual revenue growth rate and during the current 2018-19 financial year, the growth rate stands at 29.93%. Even in GST collections, Telangana stands first among states.”The governor mentioned about Mission Bhagiratha , Rythu Bandhu and Kanti Velugu, among other schemes, during his speech. “At the time of formation of Telangana, power sector was in dire straits but the Telangana government had overcome that crisis within a short time. Efforts are on to make Telangana a power surplus state with 28,000 MW installed capacity,” he said. On the industrial front, the governor said, “Till now, 8,858 industries were given clearances with an investment of Rs 1.32 lakh crore that is providing employment to 8.37 lakh people.”

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