Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday held a four-hour-long meeting with officials to discuss arrangements for the World Telugu Conference here from Friday when he was told that 8,000 delegates would be present at the prestigious event.
He insisted on extensive transport arrangements for delegates to go round different venues in the morning and attend programmes in the evening at Lal Bahadur stadium where the main dais is being set up.
A release said Mr. Rao suggested gathering the preferences of delegates on transportation and arranging them accordingly. The programmes at all other venues should be completed an hour before they were to begin at Lal Bahadur stadium in the evening to enable the delegates to reach there in time.
He wanted screening of a documentary on Telangana at the stadium.
Cultural programmes should be held at the stadium on all five days of the conference. One day should be reserved for the cultural troupe of the State government -- Sanskruthika Sarathi -- to stage performances. There should not be any problem of stay, food and logistics for delegates. Food courts should be set up in a big way from day one. The district Collectors should organise free travel and food to Telugu pandits, teachers, members of literary organisations and literature-lovers, he said.
There should be separate enclosures at the stadium for foreign delegates, those from other States, registered delegates, women, general public, Ministers, people’s representatives and the media for inaugural and valedictory functions which would be attended by the Vice-President and President respectively.
Jnan Peeth award winners from 13 Indian languages should be felicitated, he said.
The meeting was attended by Ministers Kadiyam Srihari, T. Harish Rao, Tummala Nageswara Rao and A. Chandulal, Chief Secretary S.P. Singh, Director-General of Police M. Mahender Reddy and the Collectors of Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy and Medchal.
