KCR meets PM, seeks review of IPS cadre posts to State

Demands hike in strength of IPS officers from 76 to 105

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday with a list of 10 demands, one of which sought review of IPS officers allotted to the State with the objective to increase their strength from existing 76 to 105 to take their authorised total strength to 194. At 76, the authorised strength of IPS officers allotted to the State was only 139, Mr. Rao pointed out. The other nine demands raised by Mr. Rao included 21 Centrally sponsored Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas to cover each of the new districts, a one-time grant-in-aid of ₹1,000 crore for Warangal textile park, a tribal university as envisaged in the State bifurcation Act, an Indian Institute for Management at Hyderabad, an International Institute of Information Technology at Karimnagar, upgradation of roads under Prime Minister’s Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), additional funds under PMGSY, complete funding of road works in naxalite affected districts by the Centre and sanction of Hyderabad - Nagpur and Warangal - Hyderabad industrial corridor projects.