Telangana opted to sell its lands and property as a revenue generation method to meet immediate financial requirements during 2014-15 to 2023-24, when the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) was in power. The CAG’s decadal review said Telangana received ₹16,478 crore from sale of land and property and miscellaneous other receipts, with land-sale proceeds forming 69% of the State’s non-tax revenue receipts during the period. Telangana received ₹12,795 crore from mineral royalties, constituting 23% of non-tax revenue receipts, and stood next only to Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in mineral-royalty non-tax revenue receipts. The CAG said Telangana was among 11 States that spent more than 10% of total expenditure on interest payments, and Telangana’s interest expenditure was higher than its pensionary expenditure during the period.