Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is committed to fulfill the electoral promise of his party to provide 12 percent reservation for the STB. He said the government is considering the inclusion of some castes Scheduled Tribes category, to increase the population from the existing 9 percent to 12 percent.

He disclosed this Thursday, while laying the foundation stone for the construction of three buildings - Banjara Bhavan, Komaram Bheem adivasi and Babu Ram Bhavan Jagjivan Bhavan - each costing Rs 2.5 million rupees each in a acre of land on the road no 10, Banjara Hills. He said a committee headed by a retired High Court judge would soon be appointed to submit report on the implementation of the reserve for the STB.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in a function after laying foundation stone for the Banjara Bhavan in Hyderabad on Thursday. He also laid foundations for adivasi and Babu Ram Bhavan Bhavan Jagjivan
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in a function after laying foundation stone for the Banjara Bhavan in Hyderabad on Thursday. He also laid foundations for adivasi and Babu Ram Bhavan Bhavan Jagjivan

He announced that a leader of the ST is accommodated in the cabinet, when the expansion is carried out in the near future and would be assigned the responsibility of ST-being. The indication of another expansion Cabinet has created quite a ripple among the elderly keenly awaiting berths dream in the Cabinet of the first government Telangana state.

According to sources, the Prime Minister can induce five ministers in the third week of January. The chief minister also plans to fill the posts of chief whip and whip in TRS Legislature Party. The main contenders for ministerial berths include Nageshwar Rao Tummala (Khammam), Konda Surekha (Warangal) A.Indrasena Reddy (Adilabad) Jupalli Krishna Rao (Mahabubnagar), Ajmeera Chandulal (Warangal).