HYDERABAD: Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan praised farmers from the state for producing a bumper harvest, and the state for emerging as the ‘rice bowl of India’ amid these pandemic-stricken times.
Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday unfurled the national flag on the occasion of Republic Day celebrations at Raj Bhavan.
Addressing the gathering of state senior bureaucrats at Raj Bhavan , Soundararajan said: “Despite the pandemic conditions, farmers have produced a bumper harvest thus ensuring food security to millions of people.
My state’s farmers have produced bountiful crop production in our state. ” The praise from the governor comes amid the tussle between the state and the Union governments over purchase of parboiled rice from Telangana farmers.
Tamilisai also said that Hyderabad is fast emerging as the pharma hub, IT hub and medical hub and is witnessing the establishment of offices by many global corporate organizations.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao also hoisted the national flag at Pragathi Bhavan and paid homage.
Regional executive director (South), NTPC, Sunil Kumar Satya, unfurled the tricolour.
In adherence to Covid protocol, only a few employees attended the event and the rest connected through virtual mode.
Justice G Chandrah, chairperson of the Telangana State Human Rights Commission, unfur led the national flag and paid rich floral tributes to the portraits. Both, governor and CM paid laid wreaths at ‘Ve e rula Sainik Smarak’ (Martyrs) at Parade Ground in Secunderabad.
