Global Summit 2025 Inaugural day: The day Telangana looked up and saw its future taking shape

Telangana Rising: A vision that refuses to stay on paper

There are days when a place seems to stand a little taller, as if adjusting its shoulders before stepping into a room full of possibility. The opening of the Telangana Rising Global Summit felt exactly like that. Hyderabad was humming with the certainty that something larger than a conference was unfolding. It was a State pausing long enough to imagine itself differently, and then boldly saying the imagination will do.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy stepped onto that stage and not only delivered a speech, but also stitched together a story that travels from the echoes of 1947 to the promise of 2047. He reached back to Gandhi, Ambedkar, the Constitution-makers, and the long, aching struggle that shaped Telangana’s own birth. And then, with a kind of steady conviction, he pulled the future into the present: a $1 trillion economy by 2034, a $3 trillion one by 2047.

A model way to re-shape Telangana map

But numbers were only the beginning. What he really offered was a way of re-seeing the map: CURE for cities that invent tomorrow; PURE for peri-urban areas that have space to grow; RARE for villages that prosper without having to imitate the metro cities. An intelligent and future-ready model that lets both ambition and agriculture breathe in the same sentence.

The Chief Minister also spoke of Guangdong, Seoul and Singapore as places Telangana is finally ready to stand beside. And he reminded everyone that this vision wasn’t dreamed up in a closed room. It was shaped by citizens, scholars, civil servants, and global advisors.

Then came the line that seemed to sit in the air long after he said it: “If something is difficult, we will do it immediately. If you say it is impossible, I will only extend the deadline.” A sentence built like a promise, and a stubborn one at that.

Growth that feels real, shared & grounded

Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka added his own warmth to the moment, describing a State that wants its growth to feel lived-in, shared, and rooted. A place where Hyderabad leads with innovation, peri-urban belts carry the industrial muscle, and rural regions become not afterthoughts but centres of stewardship and enterprise.

By the end of the day, it didn’t feel like a summit anymore. It felt like a threshold, and one of those rare moments when a government stops talking in bullet points and starts talking in futures.

A future that, for once, feels like it actually includes everyone.