Hyderabad: The chorus for merger of border villages and districts in neighbouring States with Telangana is growing louder and spreading far and wide, with elected representatives from even the BJP in Karnataka pitching hard for such a move. The reasons? Telangana’s emergence as a progressive State where welfare of the people and development go hand in hand, creating the ideal blend for a high happiness quotient. After 46 villages from Maharashtra on the Nizamabad and Adilabad district borde