Plan for Cinema City near Hyderabad - TeluguPeople.com News

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government will develop a 'Cinema City' in a land of 2,000 acres close to Hyderabad. The proposed Cinema City, conceived by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, will support the existing film industry and also create new employment opportunities in the film industry.

In continuation of the series of meetings on industrial development, Rao held another review with officials at the Secretariat here on Thursday. Allaying the apprehensions in some quarters that the film industry would move out of Hyderabad after bifurcation of the combined Andhra Pradesh state, Rao said, 'The film industry will not move out of Hyderabad at any cost. The climatic conditions in Hyderabad are suitable to film industry. Such climatic conditions suitable for film shootings do not exist anywhere else.'

The chief minister said most of the film and TV serials shootings were being shot in Hyderabad and the proposed Cinema City should be developed to help the existing industry. It will have separate studios for graphics, effects and other technical aspects.

Rao's announcement of developing a new Cinema City and encouraging the existing industry should be glad tidings to the large number of film workers living in the city.

There were apprehensions that the industry would moved out of Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam or other areas in Andhra Pradesh. Rao's proposal would be a major boon to the film industry to flourish further in the city.

The Telugu film industry, which was originally in Chennai, moved to Hyderabad after the previous governments' encouragement to it.

TMDC: The chief minister directed the officials to set up Telangana Mineral Development Corporation (TMDC), saying that the state had rich reserves of minerals. He asked officials to conduct a survey and take steps to tap the mineral resources.

The mineral wealth of Telangana was neglected by the erstwhile AP government, he alleged and cited that the Warangal-Khammam stretch had good mineral reserves but the AP rulers stated that these minerals were useless. He recalled that the SAIL had come up to set up a steel plant in the Warangal- Khammam stretch at a cost of Rs 30,000 crore.

SAIL found the Bayyaram iron ore very useful, he claimed. The chief minister also reviewed the possibilities of establishing industries in life sciences, IT hardware, food processing, defence, cotton, spinning, leather, mines, minerals, waste management, plastics, chemicals, gems, pearls, jewellery and automobiles.

He suggested scrapping of the existing industrial Acts and frame new Acts suitable to Telangana, if necessary. ICRISAT, DRDA and IIT in the city will be linked with engineering colleges.

Rao also directed the officials to set up a Chemical City along with proposed Pharma City. TSIIC would be allocated 5 lakh acres land. Within a short span of time, TSIIC would become financially strong, Rao hoped.