- Earlier KCR constructed his official home 40,000 Sft, Camp office 40,000 sft and Meeting Hall 15,000 sft, with 200 car parking in a 9 Acre plot in Begumpet, Hyderabad at a cost of over Rs.100 crores and all inclusive cost would be over Rs.1,000 crores. What he will do in 40,000 sft home, is difficult to guess.
- Now he is venturing to construct a new secretariat with 6,00,000 Sft at Bison Grounds, Secunderabad at an all inclusive cost of over Rs. 5,000 crores.
- What extra work he will do in this palatial complexes whose maintenance will be borne by Telangana tax payers is nothing much significant. He could have done same work in the existing secretariat and existing CM residence complexes.
- It is a great shame on the part of KCR for squandering public money for private comfort and personal pride. Worse than erstwhile Nizams.
When Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1966, she continued to stay in in the house occupied by her as I&B Minister and took only adjacent building which was for her camp office with a pathway inside. She discarded all imported cars and insisted that all minster including herself use only Ambassador cars and she did so throughout her tenure till death in 1984. She used to say that 'Thrift is my guiding principle'.
Another living example is Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. He moved into Naveen Niwas that his father built near the Odisha airport occupying the servant quarters instead of the main building which he converted into his residential office. He is a bachelor. He lives life of austerity wearing only simple white kurta-pyjamas.
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