Overview
- At a Civil-Military Liaison Conference in Hyderabad on January 15, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy formally requested relocating the Southern Command headquarters from Pune to Hyderabad.
- He urged the appointment of special officers to clear pending land-allotment and administrative issues through continuous dialogue between the state and the Army.
- He sought the sanction of a Sainik School for Telangana, noting the state has not received one in the past decade.
- He said Telangana has allocated 3,000 acres in Vikarabad for a low-frequency Navy radar station and pledged full cooperation on national security initiatives.
- No decisions or timelines were announced by the Army regarding the relocation request, the Sainik School proposal, or the special-officer appointments.