The 2047 Vision document that Revanth Reddy is trying to impose on Telangana will not solve any problems of ordinary people. Filled with fancy jargon and dreams spun using tools like ChatGPT, such vision documents are impractical. They merely entice people for a while and mislead them.
Published Dec 11, 2025 | 2:12 PM ⚊ Updated Dec 11, 2025 | 2:12 PM
Using roads as boundaries for dividing an entire state into three regions, and then assigning one economic sector to each region, is likely a “vision” no leader on earth has ever conceived. (Image: Vision Document)
Synopsis: The Telangana Rising 2047 Vision document frequently cites foreign development models that bear no resemblance to our realities — examples from Finland, Helsinki, Singapore, and South Korea. It has been proven many times that such foreign solutions do not work for our local problems.
The moment I opened the Telangana Rising Vision 2047 document, my attention was drawn to the enormous peacock image that prominently appears in the conceptual illustration of the ‘Fourth City’ envisioned by A. Revanth Reddy. The same picture also shows wandering peacocks.
At once, the scene that flashed before my eyes was that of the hundreds of bulldozers the Revanth Reddy government dispatched at midnight to level and sell 400 acres of forest land in Kanche Gachibowli. I recalled the terrified cries of the peacocks that fled in fear that night.
A leader who razed forests, displaced peacocks and deer, to sell land now expects us to believe he will build a new city and revive wildlife there. What a contradiction!
As soon as I began reading the Vision 2047 document, another thing became clear to me. It reads as though it were written for a newly formed state that came into existence only today. It contains not a single word about Telangana’s uninterrupted developmental journey from 2014 to 2023.
After attaining statehood, Telangana emerged as one of the country’s leading states in electricity, irrigation, agriculture, welfare, industry, and IT.
Having forgotten the past and ignored the present, this Vision-2047 exercise collapses like a house of cards built on no foundation. If leaders choose to close their eyes to the truth in front of them, what meaning can any “vision” they announce for the future possibly hold?
On the very platform where Revanth Reddy released this document, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao both praised the extraordinary progress achieved by Telangana in its first decade – an instance of poetic justice.
A central feature of this Vision-2047 document is its proposal to divide Telangana into three zones: CURE, PURE, and RARE. (Cure: Core Urban Region Economy; Pure: Peri-Urban Region Economy; Rare: Rural Agri Region Economy). Over the past few days, Revanth Reddy and senior Congress leaders have been blowing trumpets at every platform as though they have invented something revolutionary.
In reality, this model of dividing regions in this manner is nothing new. It was tried as early as the 1990s in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, and Brazil — and failed miserably. The Congress government is now placing this failed model in the Telangana Vision document and promoting it as though it will break new ground.
According to the document, the services sector (IT, banking, insurance, healthcare, and hospitality) will be promoted in the CURE, manufacturing in the PURE, and agriculture in the RARE.
The basis for dividing these zones is even more absurd. Everything up to the Outer Ring Road is ‘CURE’, the region between the ORR and the Regional Ring Road is ‘PURE’, and everything from the RRR to the state border is ‘RARE’.
To me, it is clear that this strange idea originated in Revanth Reddy’s mind. Using roads as boundaries for dividing an entire state into three regions, and then assigning one economic sector to each region, is likely a “vision” no leader on earth has ever conceived. This plan has been drafted without even basic thought about who would hold administrative responsibility for activities in these regions, which have no relation to existing districts or mandals.
Many towns, such as Warangal, Karimnagar, Adilabad, Khammam, Nalgonda, and Mahbubnagar, are already significantly urbanised and industrially developed. Is it sensible to classify all these towns as part of rural Telangana and claim that agriculture alone will be promoted there? The irrational, unscientific idea of dividing Telangana into three regions in this manner should be opposed by all people of the state.
The Vision document also claims that Telangana’s economy will reach $1 trillion by 2034 and $3 trillion by 2047. This would require an unbroken growth rate of about 13% every year for the next 22 years. That is impossible.
In the history of India — and the world — no country or state has achieved such a growth rate. Elsewhere in the same document, they themselves state that Telangana’s economy will reach $1.2 trillion by 2047. Therefore, the $3-trillion claim is pure fantasy.
Some might ask, “What’s wrong with setting high targets?” Setting ambitious goals is good, but they must not be fanciful figures crafted to mislead the public. A ruler who has devastated Telangana’s economy over the last two years and squandered its revenues now claims he will achieve record-breaking growth rates — who will believe that claim?
Prasanna Tantri, Executive Director at the Indian School of Business, who played a key role in shaping the Vision document, told the media that they used the Solow–Swan model from the 1950s. But applying the Solow–Swan model, designed for countries, to states is a major mistake, because state governments do not control currency printing, monetary policy, or export–import policy – powers that national governments hold.
The Telangana Rising 2047 Vision document frequently cites foreign development models that bear no resemblance to our realities — examples from Finland, Helsinki, Singapore, and South Korea. It has been proven many times that such foreign solutions do not work for our local problems.
Revanth Reddy’s political mentor, N Chandrababu Naidu, introduced a similar Vision-2020 document two decades ago in undivided Andhra Pradesh. That document also attempted to impose foreign development models irrelevant to local needs. Intellectuals and thinkers strongly opposed Vision-2020 at the time.
Now, this new 2047 Vision document that Revanth Reddy is trying to impose on Telangana will not solve any problems of ordinary people. Filled with fancy jargon and dreams spun using tools like ChatGPT, such vision documents are impractical. They merely entice people for a while and mislead them.
To think that a narrow-minded individual who, out of an inferiority complex, attempts to erase the history of his predecessor will produce a roadmap that benefits generations is wishful thinking.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
