Telangana NRI Commission sought – The Hindu

TPCC vice-president and Palakurthi constituency in-charge Hanumandla Jhansi Rajender Reddy has urged Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to establish a dedicated Telangana NRI Commission to safeguard the interests and rights of non-resident Telangana people and address their grievances.

Along with Government Whip Addanki Dayakar, she met the Chief Minister and submitted a representation outlining the need for a statutory mechanism to coordinate with the Telangana diaspora across the world.

She said lakhs of people from Telangana were living abroad but the absence of a dedicated institutional mechanism for direct coordination with the State government was leaving many NRIs to deal with their problems on their own, she said.

Among the proposals in the representation were a dedicated grievance-redressal mechanism for NRIs and their families and assistance in property, land, legal and administrative matters. The proposed commission could also coordinate assistance to Telangana citizens during emergencies abroad and facilitate a transparent single-window system for NRI investments, she said.

Ms. Jhansi Reddy also proposed establishing a comprehensive database and communication network of Telangana NRIs and creating stronger links between State government departments and Telangana associations overseas.

She said several other States had established dedicated institutions to address the concerns of their overseas communities and Telangana could similarly create an institutional framework for its diaspora.