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HKDB submits Rs. 6,400-cr. growth plan

By Our Staff Correspondent

GULBARGA Aug. 29. The Hyderabad Karnataka Development Board (HKDB) has submitted a Rs. 6,400-crore Spatial Development Plan (SDP) for the concentrated and comprehensive development of 30 Assembly constituencies in the Hyderabad Karnataka region. The High-Power Committee for the Redressal of Regional Imbalances has identified these constituencies as most backward and backward.

The SDP, titled "Vision 2010 document for the overall development of the backward areas of the Hyderabad Karnataka region", was submitted to the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, during his recent visit to Gulbarga city by the HKDB Chairman, N.S. Boseraju.

The committee identified 28 of the 31 taluks in Gulbarga, Bidar, Bellary, Raichur, and Koppal districts as most backward and backward. In its final report, the committee has recommended that the Government evolve a master plan for the development of the backward areas in the State and suggested an investment of Rs. 16,000 crore to be spent over a period of eight years to remove the imbalances in development in the core sectors. The committee also suggested that 40 per cent of the Rs. 16,000 crore — Rs. 6400 crore — should be spent on the Hyderabad Karnataka region, taking into consideration the large number of backward, more backward, and most backward taluks and Assembly constituencies.

The SDP is also based on the interim report of the task force constituted for the Hyderabad Karnataka region in February 2001 by the Chief Minister to work out a plan for the development of the region for the next decade. The deputy commissioners of the five districts had proposed an outlay of Rs. 10,000 crore for bringing this backward region on a par with the rest of the State.

After taking into consideration the regular Plan outlay of Rs. 3,627 crore in the next eight years, the SDP was fixed at Rs. 6,400 crore to match the proposals submitted by the deputy commissioners.

According to the SDP document, irrigation has been given top priority with a proposed outlay of Rs. 1,652 crore in the SDP and Rs. 955 crore as the normal budgetary allocation during the eight-year period.

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