KCR’s one year rule at a glance

• Telengana’s first Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will celebrate his first year in power on Tuesday, against the backdrop of misreading the mandate and an eccentric of functioning.
• On this day, the CM’s office will begin functioning around noon, review meetings are held when things precipitate, like swine flu or on whim.
• In the past entire year, the only person he attempted to fulfil is the farmer’s loan waiver where he paid up banks Rs.4,250 crore last year with allocations for three more similar annual instalments. The farmers’ disaffection increases when they recall that Rao promised to irrigate every acre of cultivable land. 
  
• The waiver is meagre when one considers that the monthly income of a farmer’s household is just Rs.6,491. Looking it from the other side, 52 per cent of farmers in India are in heavy debt, but in Telangana this figure soars to 83 per cent, according to the National Sample Survey. 
• Integrated Andhra has 17 per cent tenant farmers, which was next to West Bengal in 2002-03. In 2012-13 this figure more than doubled to 36 per cent. Clearly, agriculture is not fetching, and Rao does not deem it fit to review the situation to begin reversing the figures, at least in the medium term. 
• At a recent workshop at the National Institute of Rural Development here an Intelligence officer disclosed that 1,037 farmers have committed suicide in the last two years. Official sources told The Statesman that more than half of them ended their lives in the first 11 months of Rao’s government. 
• This being so, Rao has embarked on two schemes. Mission Kakatiya, which is meant to de-silt centuries old 45,000 tanks. The scheme is well appreciated but the government is unable to shake off allegations that it awarded de-silting contracts to TRS functionaries. 
• The second is the Drinking Water Grid, meant to supply potable water to every household. The scheme is controversial as the original cost of Rs.25,000 crore overnight shot to Rs.40,000 crore without explanation. Doubts are gaining currency about this expenditure as 72 pc of households are already connected with pipelines. 
• These two are intended to dump the premier poll promises of free KG to PG education, three acres of cultivable land to farmers and two bedroom houses for the homeless. 
• Now Mr Rao wants to shift the Secretariat to Bison Polo Grounds as the existing campus “has dreadful vaastu”. If he thinks he got the mandate to shift the Secretariat because of vaastu, he will discover that voters have an unnerving habit to script another story