july 2018

TELANGANA Funds of municipalities frozen, claim chairpersons   The freeze on the budget of municipalities imposed by the State government for days in spells, resulting in failure even to meet emergency expenditure of the bodies, was taken to the notice of Telangana State Finance Commission at its maiden meeting with their chairpersons.   The municipal … Read more

RAJASTHAN Centre allocates over Rs 2,000 cr for highways in Rajasthan  According to data released by the ministry, the funds have apparently been allocated as per the need as in 2012-13 it was Rs 12.24 crore which increased to Rs 215.50 crore in 2014 but dipped in 2015 with only Rs 107.16 crore but saw a massive … Read more

TELANGANA Normalcy returns to tribal schools   Normalcy seems to have returned to schools in the agency areas of old united Adilabad district which saw turmoil during the latter part of the last academic year as a result of the Adivasi-Lambada tribe conflict. Good student attendance is being reported from almost all schools with those … Read more

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan Second in the list of foetus test offenders, Haryana tops   A total of 449 convictions have been secured till March this year from across the country, for violations under the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 — enacted to stop female foeticide — according to a report released by the … Read more

TELANGANA Green Challenge’ goes viral in TS   The recent transfer of teachers taken up by government has left at least 2,000 schools across the State without a single teacher or vidya volunteer appointed on an honorarium. As a result, all of them are closed. The only remedy for reopening of the schools lay in … Read more

RAJASTHAN MJSA-Very less political donation in scheme   The crowd-funded project, Mukhya Mantri Jal Swalamban Abhiyan received least donations from political institutions in the first two phases — 0.007 per cent in Phase-i and 0.2 per cent in Phase-ii.   In other words, of the total ₹35.76 crore the MJSA received in Phase-i from different … Read more

TELANGANA 9,200 panchayat secretaries to be appointed   Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao ordered appointment of 9,200 panchayat secretaries with the aim to have one for every revenue village in the State.   Irrespective of the size of the villages, each one of them must have a panchayat secretary as their role was key to … Read more

RAJASTHAN AntaraRaj app launched to track use injectable contraceptive in state   The National Health Mission (NHM) Rajasthan has innovatively used Information Technology in the health systems to track the use of Antara, an injectable contraceptive.   Rajasthan is the top performing state in the country when it comes to the use of Antara; it … Read more

TELANGANA TRS will utilise the no confidence debate opportunity to target Modi government   The Telangana Rashtra Samiti(TRS) has been given nine minutes time to debate during the no-confidence motion against the Modi government. The TRS Parliamentary Party leader, A.P. Jitender Reddy said the party will utilise the opportunity given to it during the no-confidence motion … Read more

RAJASTHAN IIT creates tech to treat water with sunlight and Rajasthani clay   IIT Jodhpur has come up a low-cost and environment friendly technology for treating contaminated water by using Rajasthani clay and sunlight.   This technology can be used to treat contaminated water containing textile industry effluents, which is a major problem in Western … Read more