hyderabad telangana finance minister t harish rao urged the union finance minister nirmala sitharaman to release the pending grants of about rs 3000 crore to the state governmentin a letter to sitharaman on monday the telangana minister said the centre had not released backward areas development funds for the year 201920 and the current year which comes to about rs 900 crorehe said the 14th finance commission grants to local bodies amounts to rs 817 crore rs 315 crore for rural and rs 502 crore for urban local bodies though the state has fulfilled all the conditions these grants were denied without any specific reason the minister saidharish rao mentioned a special grant of rs 723 crore recommended by the 15th finance commission for 20202021 as the tax devolution for the state was projected to decline in 202021 as compared to 20192020 grants recommended by the finance commission were never denied in the past even centres share on centrally sponsored schemes being implemented in telangana the firstyear formation of the state 201415 was not released he saidas per the practice the entire centres share was released to ap by oversight though it was apportioned in the ratio of population between ap and telangana the share of telangana was wrongly released to ap amounting to rs 495 crore though the matter was taken up to the notice of ap and auditor general the amount is yet to be adjusted to telangana the amount needs to be released on priority basis harish rao saidhe also requested the centre to release igst settlement dues of about rs 210 crore which is the due share of telangana in the igst amount of rs 13944 crore transferred by the centre to the consolidated fund of india during 201819