Hyderabad, Oct. 21 -- Industries and IT Minister of Telangana KT Rama Rao has shot a letter to centre seeking financial assistance of Rs 3,418 crores for the creation of a full-fledged Hyderabad pharma city, besides allotment of natural gas on a preferential tariff basis for use as fuel by pharma units, instead of pollution causing coal.
The Minister, recalling that Pharma City has been recognised as a National Investment Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ), urged the central government to extend financial assistance in accordance with the guidelines of the NIMZ policy.
The Minister, in his letter to Union Industries Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday, wanted the assistance given in the form of an outright grant, while in the other letter, to Petrol...