New Delhi: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandra Sekhar Rao called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence in New Delhi on Friday. He discussed the pending issues of Telangana State with Prime Minister and he urged on various proposals of state development.

KCR urged the Centre to sanction the Hyderabad-Nagpur and the Warangal-Hyderabad industrial corridor projects. KCR submitted a list of demands including sanction of grant-in-aid for proposed textile park, establishment of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIT), Tribal University and 21 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.

He said industrial corridor projects will have significant impact on employment generation in less-developed region of the country and will lead to immense economic development. KCR, as Rao is popularly known, told Modi that industrial corridor between Hyderabad and Nagpur is proposed on the lines of Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor, covering a length of 585 km.

The project aims to exploit the central location of Nagpur which is proposed as a multi-modal international cargo hub and Hyderabad, which is a major, IT and manufacturing destination.

It proposes to leverage both the high-speed Hyderabad-Nagpur rail link as well as Hyderabad-Nagpur 44 Expressway. The proposed corridor can be designed to be connected through high speed passenger and freight rail connectivity between Hyderabad and Nagpur and also by six/eight laning of the existing national highway – 44 between Hyderabad and Nagpur.

About 50 km on either side of the road and rail corridor is considered as the immediate influence areas. Project influence area comprises of a combined population of 40 million, constituting approximately 27 per cent of total population of both Telangana and Maharashtra, it added.

He also urged the Centre to sanction grant-in-aid of Rs 1,000 crore for development of an integrated state-of-the-art textile park at Warangal. The state intends to develop the textile park in 2,000 acres. The park will have all inclusive textiles value chain facility from fibre to fabric and thereafter to garmenting/apparel making.