KCR's Residence cum camp office highlights

CM KCR's  Residence 40,000 Sft

Multipurpose Hall 15,000 Sft

Camp Office 50,000 Sft

• Campus 9 Acres.
• Residence 2 Acres & 40,000 Sft.
• Camp Office 50,000 Sft with conference hall for 50 persons.
• Multipurpose Hall 15,000 Sft for upto 500 persons.
• Total Built up Area: Over 1,05,000 Sft
• Location Begumpet (Behind the existing Camp office).
• Parking: for over 300 cars.
• Compound wall length: 1 km.
• Estimated cost: Rs.30 crores.
  (Actual could be as high as Rs.100 crores)
• Cost of land extra. Rs.60-80 crores per acre.
• Contractor: Shapoor Pallonji & Co Ltd.
• Date of completion: By end of Nov 2016.

• Ratan Tata lives in his modest Rs.10 crores, 3 floors, & 13,500 sft home (Plot size of 0.25 acres) and controls Rs.8,00,000 crores Tata Group. In contrast Mukesh Ambani lives in his extravagant Rs.5,000 crores, 400,000 Sft, 27 Floors (60 stories height) on 1.25 Acres plot and controls his Rs.300,000 crores Reliance Group. The contrast is elegance vs exuberance.
• Indira Gandhi as I&B Minister in 1964 was allotted No.1 Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi and she lived in that bungalow for next 20 years even as Prime Minister for 15 years. The adjacent bungalow was remodelled as PMO and foot path was laid interconnecting her home & PMO. All these 20 years she used only Ambassador car and always preferred cotton sarees. Eventhough inherited riches, her life style was simple and thrift her guiding principle.
• India is a country where the wealthy have long hidden their expensive indulgences. These days they are shamelessly indulging in vulgarity of display of wealth reflected in exuberant marriages, birthday parties etc. Sadly politicians in power are enjoying much more lavish life styles at public expense.
• Read Nani Palkhiwala observation about Politician.
• The recent Gali Janardhan Reddy's daughter's 1,000 crore marriage, Nita Ambani's 220 crore birthday bash etc are few glaring examples. In the past Hinduja Brother's Junu Beach marriage, Diamond merchant's marriage at Wankhede Stadium and Jayalalitha son's 100 crore marriage some unforgotten memories.

My View:
Telangana state while its budget has some nominal surplus, people in districts are largely backward, uneducated and poor. KCR heading the state of Telangana indulging in constructing new grand official home cum camp office at an expense of Rs.100 crore and attempting to demolish and construct new Secretariat at an expense of about Rs.2,000 crores, citing 'Vaasthu' defects of existing facilities in unacceptable nonsense. While creating facilities and upgrading with modern technologies for efficient administration is necessary crossing the lines of decency is unpardonable. But KCR's style is exceeding Nizam and Maharaja of Gwalior.

The executive powers of spending money without legislature approval is ought to be limited to real emergencies & exigencies of public welfare is OK.  But all other government expenses must be budgeted and approved by legislature prior to spending. Now a days none of the CMs & PM are following this fiscal discipline. Executive's exigent decisions are often result of publicity mongering or corruption or nepotism and sad part is that no one is questioning them and even if questioned they shamelessly ignore that.

Unless fiscal spending discipline is enforced and meticulously followed, public spending will continue to be with over 75% pilferage & corruption and up to 25% genuine spending.

KCR wants to demolish Secretariat ....

• Demolition costs, construction of new Secretariat & Legislature (in the same compound), furnishing, facilities & beautification - all combined will cost not less than Rs. 1,000  crores.
• The Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore is a different story. New state of Mysore didn't have either Secretariat or Legislature (Assembly & Council) buildings in Bangalore. Even for a spend of less than Rs. 2 crore (in 1951), Prime Minister Nehru expressed his unpleasantness but Mysore CM K.Hanumanthaiah was adamant. However Nehru laid the foundation stone on July 13, 1951.
• At the time of AP Reorganisation, Telangana was marginally surplus and AP was heavily deficit. But with luxury and mind less spending and taking up large projects without proper financial closure has made Telangana State virtually bankrupt. It is a matter of some more time skeletons will roll out of KCR cup boards.
• The pathetic situation of Hyderabad streets and its drainage systems is a living example of perennial neglect and nothing done during past 2+ years ever since KCR became CM.
• Hyderabad Metro not progressing beyond 50% mark even after 4 years, is a living testimony of efficiency in KCR administration. Facing apathy from KCR administration, L&T is on the look out for exit.
• Welfare measures like Farmer loan waiver, Fees reimbursement, Arogyasri, Double bed room houses for poor and many more are not making any progress since last 2+ years. 
• With so many teething issues like Krishna river water sharing, Institutions bifurcation, APTransco unpaid bills, Unilateral stoppage of coal supplies from SCCL, High Court bifurcation etc still unresolved, why would AP CM handover these secretariat buildings to TS with rights to use for 7+ more years is a million dollar question without extracting any benefit for AP.
• Relentless advertising that all is well and blaming past rulers at the fall of hat will work only for a limited period of time. Not all the time. 
• Finally, Vaasthu etc are personal belief systems and demolishing properties based on these scientifically unproved methods resulting in wasteful & fancy spending of Rs.1,000 crores of public money is nothing short of madness.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time ... Abraham Lincoln"