British occupied the present-day Telangana region through subsidiary alliance from Nasir-Ud-Dawlah and it became princely state under British rule in 1799
When India got Independence in 1947 Hyderabad remained as independent state for the period of 13 months. Nizam of Hyderabad wanted to remain Independent
On 17th September 1948, Indian government conducted military operation called Operation polo to bring Hyderabad state into Indian union
Later based on the demand from the people of this region to create state on linguistic basis, Andra state was created on 1953, again in 1956 through State re-organization act several regions merged together with Andra state to create new state called Andra Pradesh
Another new demand for separate state creation emerged within Andra Pradesh in later period, based on this in the year 2014 new state Telangana came to exist
Key facts
Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana
The state is majorly located on Deccan plateau
Nagarjuna Srisailam tiger reserve in Telangana is the largest tiger reserve in India
Rivers Krishna and Godavari flow through Telangana
Coal, Iron-Ore, Limestone and Stowing stone are the mineral resources found in India
Perini Sivathandavam is the ancient dance form from Telangana
Historically important monument Charminar is located in located in Hyderabad of Telangana
Hussain sagar lake is located in Telangana
Major concerns
Small size land holdings in Agriculture which affects the economic opportunities
Increase in indebtedness of farmer households
Rising income inequality
Child marriage
Dental and skeletal Fluorosis
Devadasi system
Measures can be taken
Consolidation of land records through digitization, combining small lands and leasing of land will ensure consistent income to farmers and educating them on co-operative farming through NGO's & government programme helps to solve the issue
Universal access to public funded health and education, government policy measures for new employment generation, unemployment allowance, formalizing care economy and effective taxation policies helps to reduce income inequality
Empowering people to give information to government authorities about child marriages in their region and education on harm effects of child marriage helps to reduce child marriage in Telangana and India
Providing clean portable water to the public, establishing fluorosis rehabilitation centres and providing dietary supplements helps to reduce fluorosis
Government policy measures to consider devadasi system as public order issue and empowering dalits through education and economic opportunities helps to tackle the issue
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it - Stephen R Covey
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