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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the current issue of Outlook titled India

00:05 that is Bharat.

00:06 It looks at the ongoing state elections as a critical test of unity between the Congress

00:11 and its allies in the India coalition and whether the opposition combined can take on

00:17 the might of the BJP in the elections 2024.

00:21 Student uproar by Anisha Reddy from Outlook.

00:24 In 2010, Sai Kumar Migada, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student in Hyderabad, had breakfast,

00:32 returned to his dorm room, slipped a length of clothesline around his neck, tied it to

00:37 the ceiling fan and hanged himself.

00:40 Before he signed off from life, Migada, who routinely scored straight A's in his exams,

00:46 also left a note behind for the people of the yet-to-be-formed state of Telangana.

00:51 For the people of Telangana, this is my final salute, said his note, which added traction

00:58 to the decades-old struggle to create a separate state in Andhra Pradesh, one of the larger

01:03 states in southern India.

01:05 Migada was one of the many people, including youth, who sacrificed their lives on the altar

01:11 of the Telangana statehood movement.

01:15 Migada was one of the many people, including youth, who sacrificed their lives on the altar

01:20 of the Telangana statehood movement.

01:23 Whose champions had argued that the region has been neglected by the successive state

01:28 governments.

01:29 Almost a decade later, the sacrifices, some of them fatal, made by around 30 lakh youths

01:35 to give birth to Telangana appear to have been in vain.

01:40 Jobs, water and financial stability were the three prime promises made during the statehood

01:47 movement by the incumbent Chief Minister of the state, Kalba Kuntala Chandrasekhar Rao,

01:52 or KCR, one of the icons of the Telangana movement.

01:56 During the movement, more than a thousand students gave up their lives in the hope that

02:01 the next generation would enjoy improved employment opportunities after the formation of the new

02:07 state.

02:08 However, government job aspirants in Hyderabad lament that the current Bharat Rashtra Samiti,

02:14 formerly TRS, which gained power with the support of the youth, has utterly failed to

02:19 fulfil these aspirations.

02:21 Contrasting claims surround the state unemployment rate.

02:24 In May 2020, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, an independent think tank, reported

02:31 a record high of 34.8%, the highest in four years.

02:37 Among election-bound state Rajasthan at 12.5%, Telangana at 15.1% and Mizoram at 11.9% have

02:47 youth unemployment rates exceeding the national average, as per the 2022-2023 Periodic Labour

02:54 Force Survey.

02:55 While contesting job vacancy claims persist, the 2021 Biswal Committee report revealed

03:01 1.91 lakh unfulfilled state government positions since 2015.

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