There is an overall sense of disappointment in political circles in Telangana over the Union Budget 2026-27 for ‘bypassing’ the state’s core demands.
The Telangana had sought key projects worth nearly ₹1.63 lakh crore in Central support for critical infrastructure including shared funding for the 350-km Regional Ring Road (RRR) (₹34,367 crore), ten greenfield radial roads linking RRR to the Outer Ring Road (ORR) (₹45,000 crore), and equitable participation in the Hyderabad Metro Phase-2 expansion (Phase 2A at ₹24,269 crore and Phase 2B at ₹19,759 crore).
None of these found any concrete mention in the Budget.
Key urban and environmental proposals such as the Musi River rejuvenation at ₹17,212 crore, Warangal’s underground drainage system and a ₹17,000 crore greenfield expressway to Bandar port from dry port in Hyderabad, were also ignored, it is alleged.
Even long-pending bifurcation promises, including major industrial and rail projects, remained unaddressed.
While Union Minister G Kishan Reddy spoke of approvals “in principle” for Hyderabad Metro Rail expansion and Musi River rejuvenation, the absence of clear budgetary allocations rendered these assurances hollow, the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders alleged.
Instead, the ambitious high-speed rail corridors from Hyderabad to Pune, Bengaluru and Chennai would be more beneficial for neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra than for Telangana, it is argued.
Meanwhile, Telangana’s Finance department has already observed a steep shortfall in Central grants for 2025-26, with only around ₹4,000 crore received till January end, against an expected ₹22,782 crore. With such under-delivery on allocations, officials feared tightened expenditure in the forthcoming financial year.
Meanwhile, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president KT Rama Rao held the Congress government in Telangana and the BJP-led Centre responsible for discrimination against the State in the budgetary allocations.
He demanded a discussion on the issue in the upcoming Assembly session.
In an informal interaction with media persons here today, KTR said that since assuming office, the Congress government had failed to deliver tangible benefits and was instead resorting to diversion politics through investigations targeting opposition leaders.
The Union Budget, he said, ignored Hyderabad’s strengths in life sciences and pharmaceuticals while allocating funds elsewhere. He argued that reductions in rural employment allocations and subsidies would hurt ordinary citizens and accused the Centre of adopting Telangana’s welfare models without extending proportional financial support.
Questioning Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s frequent trips to Delhi, the BRS working president asked what concrete benefits had accrued to the State, citing pending demands such as the mega power loom cluster and infrastructure projects.
Announcements of rail corridor projects were being projected as special assistance despite being part of routine national planning, he said.
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