India’s image tarnished on global level with attacks on dalits : KTR

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Thursday said that attacks on Dalits, minority sections across the country were taking away civilisation values and demeaning the countrys prestige internationally despite having ideal constitution which resembles modern values, provided primary rights and security to all sections.

KTR introduced a resolution stating that the party should progress with the spirit of separatist agitation to bring a qualitative change in the country.

He said this attitude of attacking weaker sections was not good for the country.The Telangana Minister further said said despite vast cultivable lands and rivers people of the country were suffering with poverty because of the lack of vision and commitment of successive governments at the Centre.

He said the country had abundant water with 70,000 tmcft flowing in rivers; only 20,000 tmcft was being utilized; the rest was draining down into seas."If this water is utilised effectively, water can be supplied to all 41 crore acres of cultivable land in the country.

The governments at the Centre are mute spectators to the plight of farmers even as water is going waste.This resulted in shortage of water for irrigation.

" KTR said countries which were smaller than India were constructing big reservoirs.A small country like Zimbabwe had the worlds largest reservoir with 6,533 tmcft.

There should have been at least two or three reservoirs of this size in the country.Due to failure of the Union governments in initiating farmer-friendly policies, many ryots were committing suicide in different States, he said.

In many cities and towns, water was being supplied once a week, reflecting the poor state of affairs in the country, the minister pointed out.KTR added that the nation has abundant natural resources and being the worlds largest democracy, India was still plagued with basic issues like provision of sufficient water for households and farmers, communal differences, unemployment.He said the country should have been provided electricity on the lines of Telangana, but instead, the public sector units were sold at throw away prices to corporates, he alleged.