Half trained, laws changed
The Union Home Ministry’s own table says Telangana has trained just 52.24% of its police in the new criminal laws — the lowest share among states — while the BJP-led Centre lectures from Delhi and the Congress shouts from the sidelines.
The Union government’s own table puts Telangana’s police-law training at 52.24 per cent.
According to a 22 July 2026 written reply tabled in the Rajya Sabha, Telangana reported 27,747 police personnel trained out of 53,115 “available” in the new criminal laws — 52.24%. That is the lowest share among the 28 states listed. The national average is 92.15% trained on the same table. Source: the Ministry of Home Affairs’ annexure, published by the Press Information Bureau.
What “available” means the ministry does not say — sanctioned posts, working strength or simply whoever the state reported — but the gap is recorded on the Union government’s own sheet. Andhra Pradesh reports 54,764 trained of 56,773 (96.46%). Telangana’s figure is roughly half.
Training is a state responsibility — the MHA itself underlines that “Police” and “Public Order” sit in the State List. Delhi’s role here has been to count. The BJP-led Centre is very proud of its national totals; its Rajya Sabha reply also notes 1,572,863 trained of 1,706,735 police nationally. The table still shows Telangana at the bottom.
What the annexure does not tell us: who inside the force has been trained (investigating officers, SHOs, constables, battalions), what counts as “trained”, and the cut-off date for Telangana’s figures. It also does not establish whether additional sessions have happened since the state sent its number in. Those specifics are for the state home department to publish.
One number that did the rounds — 3.86 lakh Telangana cases under the new laws as of 17 July 2026 — could not be located in the parliamentary records consulted. We are not running it without the primary table.
The BJP-led Centre’s own reply sets the record; the Congress does not get to pretend this is a Delhi job. Telangana’s government now has to close the gap and show its updated figure — before the usual chorus spins the Union’s spreadsheet into theatre.