Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday flagged off the process of chalking out a detailed bottom-to-top development plan for the new State, which would be ready in two to three months.

He gave the broad contours of the plan at a day-long workshop and interactive meeting with his Cabinet members, senior bureaucrats, officials, District Collectors and revenue offices from the 10 districts.

While some parts of the existing schemes and policies will be retained, the Chief Minister said a whole new approach would have to be drawn up from the context of Telangana as a state and not as a region as earlier. The process will include village-level plans, which would be consolidated at the district level and then finally the State-level document will be prepared.

A State advisory council with people from different walks of life and specialisations is also being set up in the run-up to the finalisation of the master plan.

“Let this process take two or three months. I am not in a hurry. What we are preparing now is the foundation for the new State. Any flaws in this plan would reflect badly for the State in the future. The policy should come from the bottom (village level) to the top and not the other way round,” Rao said.

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