Oct 2019

TELANGANA Telangana : 3,500 schools may be shut, claims Telangana Teachers Federation   Alleging that the state is planning to merge upper primary schools (UPS) in Telangana with nearby high schools, members of Telangana Teachers Federation (TTF) said the government wants to close about 3,500 schools in the name of rationalisation and added that the merger of UPS is an … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana: School board sitting on uploading students’ data   Though the state government has made it mandatory to upload details of all students studying under the Telangana State Board of Secondary Education on the Department of School Education website, details of 1,53,172 students are yet to be uploaded by officials. Though students are enrolled in schools, they might … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana may issue trade licence to Maharashtra turmeric farmers   For turmeric farmers of Nizamabad, the government may issue local trade licences to Maharashtra turmeric farmers. Turmeric has good market in Maharashtra, and farmers can get an additional price of Rs 1,000-2,000 per tonne.   At local markets in Maharashtra, good quality turmeric fetches Rs 4,000 to Rs … Read more

TELANGANA ·       Telangana: App to aid women in distress reach out to cops ð Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), in collaboration with the police, will soon launch ‘She Safe App’ to help women in distress reach out to nearby police stations via the SOS button embedded in the application. ð The users of this app can … Read more

TELANGANA Liquor shops policy notified for next two years   The Telangana government has notified fresh allotment of liquor shops by issue of licences for the next two years with quite a few changes in the policy.   The government also waived earnest money deposit which was ₹ 5 lakh but returnable on non-allotment of … Read more

TELANGANA State is now power surplus Against a generally critical power situation in the months of September and October due to rains ceding and agricultural demand on the high, Telangana had become power surplus during the period on account of persistent and rigorous monsoon. As much as 2,716 million units of power was generated at … Read more

TELANGANA ● No law in place, Telangana tops chart for trespass cases Repealing the Land Grabbing (prohibition) Act may not have been a good move on the part of government as the state has seen the highest number of criminal trespass cases recorded. The recently released National Crime Records Busreau (NCRB) 2017 shows that Telangana … Read more

TELANGANA State Finance Commission team tours Tamil Nadu   Telangana State Finance Commission Chairman G. Rajesham Goud and members who visited Tamil Nadu have studied the development work taken up under the Central schemes and under the Rurban scheme in various districts.   The SFC team inquired about the powers and financial resources of rural … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana agrees to pay ₹5,600 crore power dues   The Chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana met in New Delhi to discuss the division of assets and other issues arising out of bifurcation.   The Central government categorically made it clear to both the States that the division of assets listed under Schedule … Read more

TELANGANA Soya farmers waiting for MSP operations to begin   As harvesting of soyabean crop picks up across State, farmers are still unsure of purchase of the crop by the government under its minimum support price operations and are getting anxious.   The government has appointed Markfed as the nodal agency for soyabean purchase at … Read more