T. Harish Rao

T. Harish Rao
Minister for Irrigation, Marketing & Legislative Affairs (Government of Telangana)
Assumed office
2014
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao
Constituency Siddipet, Telangana
Minister of Youth Services (Government of Andhra Pradesh)
In office
2004–2005
Constituency Siddipet, Telangana
Member of the Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2014
Constituency Siddipet, Telangana
In office
2004–2014
Constituency Siddipet, Telangana
Personal details
Born (1972-06-03) June 3, 1972
Siddipet, Andhra Pradesh, (now in Telangana, India)
Political party Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Residence Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Alma mater Kakatiya University

Thanneeru Harish Rao (born 3 June 1972) is an Indian politician belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He represents Siddipet (Assembly constituency). He is incumbent Cabinet Minister for Irrigation, Marketing & Legislative Affairs of Telangana. He is the nephew of 1st Chief Minister of Telangana, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao.

Early life

Harish Rao was born in Chintamadaka, Siddipet and his native place is Thotapally in Velama Community Family, Karimnagar District to Satyanarayana Rao and Laxmi Bai. His father was a government employee.He studied at Vaniniketan Paathashala. He completed his graduation From Kakatitya University.

Political career

Harish Rao started his political journey with Telangana Rashtra Samithi as youth leader. He elected to assembly at the age of 32 from Siddipet (Assembly constituency). He raised his strong voice in assembly on various issues of Telangana region. Soon, He became key member of Telangana Rashtra Samithi and started working as Internal party strategist. He along with other MLA's resigned as Congress party delayed the announcement of bifurcation of Telangana. He won as MLA with majority over 58000 though it was major set back for party winning only 7 MLA seats and 2 MP seats out of 17 MLA's and 4 MP's contested. In 2009, once again elected as MLA from Siddipet (Assembly constituency) constituency with over 60000 majority. He elected as TRS party legislative member. Soon after, he and 10 other members from the TRS resigned from the Legislative Assembly in support of a separate State for Telangana. In July 2010, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh ordered the Election Commission of India to conduct by-polls in Siddipet (Assembly constituency) and other towns across the Telangana region. Harish Rao contested again from Siddipet (Assembly constituency) defeating opponent Babu Mohan (from the Telugu Desam Party) yet again. He played active political role by working at gross root level by building the party and uniting all other parties for the cause of Telangana.

As Irrigation Minister

Harish Rao sworn in Minister of Irrigation on June 2nd 2014. He started Mission Kakatiya program for restoring all the tanks and lakes in Telangana State, India. The Program was inaugurated on 12 March 2015 by chief minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao. As part of this, government restored 45,000+ tanks and lakes.

Kaleshwaram Project

Main article: Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project

Under Irrigation ministry, TRS government redesigned the project Pranahitha-chevella project on the ground that the original plan had too many environmental obstacles and had very low water storage provision — only about 16.5 tmc ft. After conducting a highly advanced Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) survey for a couple of months, the government separated the original component serving the Adilabad area as the Pranahitha project and renamed the rest as Kaleshwaram by redesigning the head works, storage capacity and the canal system based on the data of availability of water at different locations along the course of the Godavari and its tributaries. The Kaleshwaram project has provision for the storage of about 148 tmc ft with plans of utilising 180 tmc ft by lifting at least 2 tmc ft water every day for 90 flood days. The project is designed to irrigate 7,38,851 hectares (over 18.47 lakh acres) uplands in the erstwhile districts of Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Warangal, Medak, Nalgonda and Ranga Reddy.

Party trouble shooter

Harish Rao has close association with party cadre. Cadre often refer him as party trouble shooter. He played key in role during 2014 elections in United Medak district and other district in Northern Telangana. He also took the complete responsibility of By Election, 2014: Medak and Narayankhed By Elections, TRS party won with huge majority on both the occasions.

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