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  • Telangana Formation Day celebrations: CS asks HoDs to appoint nodal officers to oversee arrangements

    Telangana Formation Day celebrations: CS asks HoDs to appoint nodal officers to oversee arrangements

    Hyderabad: Chief Secretary A Santhi Kumari directed Heads of Departments to appoint nodal officers for their respective departments to oversee arrangements for the upcoming Telangana Formation Day celebrations.

    The Chief Secretary on Wednesday held a review meeting with senior officials of various departments to discuss arrangements for the upcoming event and asked them to highlight the achievements of each department during the last nine years of the formation of the State. All the important public monuments and buildings, including Secretariat, Raj Bhavan, Assembly and other famous buildings should be illuminated on all the days, she said, adding that steps should be taken to ensure uninterrupted power and drinking water supply during the period of celebrations.

    Director General of Police Anjani Kumar, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar, Special Chief Secretary (Energy) Sunil Sharma, GAD Secretary V Seshadri, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner CV Anand and other senior officials were present.

  • Telangana: RGUKT-Basar plans to open its doors to foreign nationals to pursue UG engg courses

    Telangana: RGUKT-Basar plans to open its doors to foreign nationals to pursue UG engg courses

    Hyderabad: The Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) – Basar is planning to open its doors to the foreign nationals to pursue undergraduate engineering courses as a lateral entry into first-year BTech programmes from this year.

    RGUKT Vice Chancellor Prof. V Venkata Ramana on Wednesday said that after regular admissions, the lateral entry admission of foreign students would be taken up after approval from the EC. The University is yet to decide whether to go with merit secured in the Class XII or have its own entrance test for admitting foreign nationals.

    The RGUKT–Basar offers six-year integrated BTech programmes for students who passed Class X. Students who score merit in the Class X are admitted to the Pre University Course followed by the four-year BTech programme in different disciplines. Presently, the University has two per cent of the seats for foreign students at the entry level.

    The RGUKT has also drawn plans to offer twinning programmes in collaboration with foreign universities – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, University of Texas, USA, and universities from Canada and Thailand as well. This will allow RGUKT students to pursue half of the coursework in the University and rest in a collaborated university abroad.

    Plans are afoot to bring in new courses like AI & ML and IoT in the PUC besides other vocational courses and talks are on with the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education. As close to 70 per cent girls enroll in different courses, it is decided to set up an IT lab next to the girl hostels.

    A new integrated modern kitchen with a capacity to churn out food for 9,000 students thrice in a day is being set up and tender has been floated for procuring the latest kitchen equipment.

    RGUKT admission schedule

    – Notification on June 1

    – Online applications from June 5

    – Last date to apply is June 19

    – Last date for receiving print out of the online application by post for special categories (PH/CAP/NCC/Sports) is June 24

    – Announcement of provisional selection list is on June 26

    – Phase-I counselling from July 1

  • Telangana government to release Rs 1,190 crore to Gram Panchayats

    Telangana government to release Rs 1,190 crore to Gram Panchayats

    Hyderabad: The State government has decided to release Rs.1,190 crore to Gram Panchayats. This was after Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao directed officials to release the funds to the panchayats to expedite different works in the villages.

    Accordingly, Finance Minister T Harish Rao and Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister E Dayakar Rao held a meeting here on Tuesday.

    The Ministers discussed on the allocation of Rs.1,190 crore funds to different panchayats for taking up different works. They also directed the officials to initiate measures for releasing the funds at the earliest.

    Meanwhile, Sarpanch Association members met with Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister and welcomed the Chief Minister’s decision to release the funds to Gram Panchayats.

    The Ministers said the State government was according top priority for rural development and funds were being released at regular intervals to ensure all the development works were taken up as per schedule.

  • Death of a child from heart attack, birthday celebrated after dying to fulfill his wish

    Death of a child from heart attack, birthday celebrated after dying to fulfill his wish

    Adilabad (IANS)| A 16-year-old boy reportedly died of a heart attack in Babapur village of Asifabad district in Telangana. The grieving family cut his birthday cake near his dead body to fulfill his wish. The child’s birthday was on Friday 19th May. He was undergoing treatment for a stomach ailment at a private hospital where he died on Thursday.

    Her parents came home with the dead body of the child. कुही देर बाद राट के 12 बाज गाये तो है है है जवर्ड हो गाया है जाब बक्ष्ट का बाज़ी The deceased’s father Gunwant Rao and mother Lalita along with relatives arranged the cake and the cake was cut near his body.

    He prayed for him. Kata grabbed her hand. They clapped and sang the birthday song. During this time the body of the child was lying on the bed.

    He was cremated later on Friday. Family members said that the child was complaining of stomach pain. He was admitted to Mancheria Hospital but died during treatment.

    Doctors say that he died of a heart attack. The postmortem report is awaited to ascertain the exact cause of death.

    — IANS

  • Rural students now study in top colleges in Telangana

    Rural students now study in top colleges in Telangana

    Hyderabad: Students from remote places in the State are receiving equal opportunities on par with their urban counterparts in getting admissions to top and reputed degree colleges in Hyderabad. Courtesy the Degree Online Services Telangana (DOST), the online and app-based platform.

    The DOST has aided over 5,100 students mostly from rural areas in securing admissions in top colleges including Nizam College, Government Degree College for Women, Begumpet, Government City College, Hyderabad and Telangana Mahila Viswavidyalayam formerly known as Osmania University College for Women, Koti, during the academic year 2022-23.

    Of the total admissions, the Telangana State Council of Higher Education data show that 1,520 students, mostly from rural background, joined colleges of the Telangana Mahila Viswavidyalayam followed by 1,415 students enrolling in the Government City College, 1,294 in Government Degree College for Women, Begumpet and 915 in Nizam College.

    As a wide range of course combinations and colleges are offered on the DOST platform, rural students are no longer limiting themselves to the institutions available in their respective home towns but are exploring various options and securing admissions in preferred courses in Hyderabad.

    From Nalgonda district, the DOST last year facilitated 114 and 147 students get enrolled in Telangana Mahila Viswavidyalayam and Government City College respectively. Similarly, students from remote places in Adilabad, Nirmal, Mulugu, Kumuram Bheem Asifabad and Mancherial districts got admissions into the said institutions in Hyderabad during the academic year 2022-23.

    Unlimited Opportunites

    Most students who got admissions were toppers in the intermediate. Degree admissions via DOST are granted based on the merit secured in the intermediate and rule of reservation.

    One of the crucial aspects of the DOST is doing away with the geographical barriers, allowing students from remote villages to apply for degree admissions at the click of a button. Without having to travel long distances to obtain an application form from different colleges and submitting the same for admissions, the DOST enabled students to apply for all participating degree colleges with just an application form.

  • KTR’s US tour: Telangana gets more investments

    KTR’s US tour: Telangana gets more investments

    Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao’s ongoing tour to United States continues to fetch more investments into Telangana. On Friday, more companies announced their plans in different sectors in Telangana.

    GeneSys Biologics Private Limited announced its expansion plans, which will not only contribute to Hyderabad’s biotech sector but also facilitate their ongoing collaboration with US-based Civica Rx.

    GeneSys, which has already invested about 50 million dollars at Genome Valley, Hyderabad, now plans to invest an additional 50-60 million dollars for setting up a new large scale recombinant bulk manufacturing facility (from fermentation to purified bulk insulin) for its insulin analogues.

    GeneSys, a science-based biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Hyderabad, currently employs about 250 personnel. At the new facility, nearly 300 more jobs would be generated.

    2500 IT jobs to be created in Tier II cities

    The IT and Industries Minister had a fruitful meeting with CEOs of 30 different companies at Washington. Many of these companies have evinced interest in setting up their offices in Nizamabad, Siddipet and Nalgonda.

    Accordingly, over 2,500 IT jobs would be generated, besides creating indirect employment to another 10,000 people in the tier II cities. Interestingly, many non-Telugu and non-Telangana entrepreneurs expressed their willingness in establishing offices in tier-2 cities.

    This was after the Minister apprised the CEOs about Telangana government’s initiatives in establishing IT Towers in Warangal, Karimnagar, Khammam and Mahabubnagar. The IT Tower at Siddipet will be inaugurated soon, while the ones in Nizamabad and Nalgonda are in different stages of construction. The State government also sanctioned an IT Tower in Adilabad, the Minister informed the CEOs.

    Explaining the State government’s focus on the 3D mantra, including Decongest, Decarbonize and Decentralize, the Minister invited the NRIs to set up their offices in their hometowns and create rural employment.

    ZapCom’s Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad

    ZapCom Group Inc, a US-based Product Engineering and Solutions company, will be establishing its Center of Excellence (CoE) specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) driven products for travel, hospitality, fintech and retail sectors.

    ZapCom’s team led by its Founder and CEO Kishore Pallamreddy met with Industries Minister KT Rama Rao at Washington DC.

    At present, ZapCom’s units are spread across the United States (California, Texas, and Florida), Central America, and India. ZapCom’s proposed CoE in Hyderabad will provide employment to 500 initially and would be expanding to 1,000 plus within a year.

    Dedicated operations center in Karimnagar

    ECLAT Health Solutions, a leading provider in healthcare support services has decided to establish a dedicated operations center in Karimnagar, employing about 100 people in the near term with a potential to grow upto 200 people.

    This was announced after ECLAT Health Solutions signed an agreement with 3M Health Information Systems (HIS), a world-renowned leader in healthcare transformation. The agreement allows ECLAT to provide medical coding and clinical documentation services to 3M customers.

    After the partnership, the leadership teams of 3M and ECLAT Health Solutions met with Industries Minister KT Rama Rao at Washington DC.

    Additional opportunities for collaboration between Telangana government and 3M & ECLAT including improvement in healthcare delivery, technology platforms for population health, medical devices R&D and manufacturing were also discussed during the meeting.

    “Eclat has an established presence in Karimnagar providing medical coding and related technology services. The Karimnagar center has delivered some high end work to several large clients. It is not only cost effective but also provides employment for the women and rural youth who are hungry to perform well” said Karthik Polsani, Group CEO and Founder of ECLAT Health Solutions.

    “We are excited with the vision of the Telangana government to promote life sciences and healthcare, and we are looking forward to collaboration with them. As a first step towards this collaboration, we are happy that a delivery hub will be established through our strategic partner ECLAT Health in Karimnagar” said Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, Global CMO, 3M HIS. Eom

  • Telangana Cabinet announces scrapping of GO No 111

    Telangana Cabinet announces scrapping of GO No 111

    Hyderabad: The State Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao here on Thursday, has announced the scrapping of GO No. 111, which was issued in 1996 to prevent undue industrialisation and heavy construction activities in 83 villages and pollution of Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar.

    Briefing the media on the proceedings of the meeting, Minister T Harish Rao said the rules and regulations in force for the lands in the limits of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) would be applicable for the lands in the 84 villages in the revenue mandals of Shamshabad, Rajendranagar, Moinabad, Chevella and Shabad revenue mandals – all falling under the 10-km catchment area of Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar.

    Neither the city of Hyderabad nor the villages in the limits of the HMDA were any further depending on the two sources. The water supply to the city and the suburbs was largely depending on the waters drawn from Godavari, Krishna and Manjeera, and the State government had decided to do away with the GO No 111, as the people in all the 84 villages have been demanding for quite some time.

    The Chief Minister had announced in April last year that the GO had become redundant. It was issued to protect the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar, which at that point of time, catered to drinking water needs of people of the Greater Hyderabad region. However, now, the State government had overcome the drinking water shortage that affected the capital region, and had created adequate alternate water resources, he had said.

    Water supply was abundant with water being taken without difficulty through projects including the Sunkishala Intake Project and Mallanna Sagar, with Hyderabad not to face water problems for another 100 years, he had said.

  • 6 farm laborers from Telangana killed in road accident

    6 farm laborers from Telangana killed in road accident

    Narasaraopet: Six women farm workers were killed and another seven persons were injured in a road mishap. The accident took place when a speeding lorry hit the auto in which they were travelling at Pondugala village of Dachepalli mandal in Palnadu district in the wee hours of Wednesday.

    According to Gurazala DSP Pallam Raju, as many as 23 agriculture workers were going in an auto from Narasapuram village of Damacherla mandal in Telangana to Pulipadu village of Gurazala mandal for agriculture works. When the auto reached Pondugala, a speeding lorry coming in the opposite direction hit it. As a result, five women workers were killed on the spot. Another worker died while undergoing treatment in the hospital. After hitting the auto, the lorry driver did not stop the vehicle and drove towards Telangana.

    The deceased were identified as Islavati Manjula (25), Bhukya Padma (27), Padiya Sakri (35), Bhukya Soni (50) and Malavat Kavita (30). Banavat Parvati (30) died while undergoing treatment in the hospital. Another seven persons travelling in the auto were injured and they were shifted to a private hospital in Miryalaguda for treatment.

    Police registered a case and took up investigation.

    DSP Pallam Raju said that six women workers lost their lives due to the rash driving of the lorry driver.

    Palnadu Superintendent of Police Ravishankar Reddy rushed to the GGH in Gurazala and consoled the family members of the deceased. He instructed the officials to take steps to conduct postmortem as early as possible. Ends Earlier, the police officials explained the details of the road accident to the SP.

    SP Ravishankar Reddy directed the police officials to take stern action against the accused responsible for the accident and deliver justice to the victims. He instructed the officials to take steps not to recur such accidents in future and set up warning boards at the spots where accidents are likely to occur on the highway with the cooperation of the departments concerned. The officials were further instructed to step up highway patrolling to check road accidents.

    Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao expressed shock over the death of six women agriculture workers in the accident at Pondugala and conveyed his condolences to the bereaved family members. He announced Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh to the injured.

    Miryalaguda MLA Gummadi Bhaskara Rao, Gurazala MLA Kasu Mahesh Reddy, former Minister K Jana Reddy and Nalgonda DCC president Sankar Naik visited the GGH in Gurazala. They consoled the kin of the deceased and conveyed their condolence to bereaved family members.

    MLA Bhaskara Rao extended financial assistance of Rs 10,000 each to the families of the deceased.

    Later speaking to the media, former Minister Jana Reddy urged the AP government to announce ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased. He spoke to the Education Minister Botcha Satyanarayana and Chief Secretary KS Jawahar Reddy over phone and stressed on the need to announce ex-gratia. He urged Telangana CM KCR to take steps to render better medical services to the injured.

    MLA Kasu Mahesh Reddy assured that he will persuade the AP government to announce ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased as requested by Jana Reddy.

  • Politics aside, praise comes in for ‘Telangana Speed’

    Politics aside, praise comes in for ‘Telangana Speed’

    Hyderabad: When Taiwanese giant Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) broke the ground for setting up its electronic manufacturing unit at Kongara Kalan on Monday, it was a watershed moment in the history of Telangana.

    Since the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State government, FIT broke the ground for its plant in just about two and half months, thus testifying to what Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said about ‘Telangana Speed’.

    After industry leaders like Liu, now leaders from different parties are also hailing the State leadership for its pro-active approach and speed.

    Aam Aadmi Party Gujarat general secretary and former bureaucrat PVS Sarma was the latest to join the bandwagon of Telangana Speed admirers, when he said ‘political ideologies aside, must admit, have not seen such pace of development and planning in Telangana before’.

    Stating that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao had meticulously changed the perception about the State, he pointed out how investments were pouring into the State.

    “Investments are pouring in and people are happy. As of now, seems its BRS again” Sarma tweeted, also observing political parties in Telangana were not able to counter the development agenda of the BRS. BJP was rising but took to communal and divisive politics, going down steeply. Congress is busy in ‘internecine feuds, cannot offer a viable alternative’, he said.

    “Overall, credit to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao duo” he tweeted.

    Earlier, it was AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi who called the Foxconn development a great achievement by Industries Minister KT Rama Rao, terming it a testament to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s leadership since 2014 as well.

    “A peaceful atmosphere, solid infra, wonderful people and a welcoming culture. Who would not want to invest here?” Owaisi had tweeted.

    The other day, union Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar said Telangana was at the forefront in the agriculture sector as well, with increased crop production and yield. In the wake of the G20 Summit to be held in Hyderabad from June 15 to 17, he said the Centre and the State governments would work together to showcase India’s importance in the world agriculture sector.

    Meanwhile, former CBI Joint Director VV Lakshmi Narayana tweeted “Congratulations to Goa, Telangana & Haryana states for achieving 100% household water connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission.; Punjab, Gujarat , Himachal & Bihar – 90% ; UP has the lowest Coverage – 13.75%; AP is at 18th place with 69.74%…”

    Replying to him, Rama Rao said fact was that the BJP-led union government was inspired by Mission Bhagiratha and launched the Jal Jeevan Mission. The Minister also pointed out that the Centre however, had not heeded Niti Aayog’s recommendation for a grant of Rs.19,000 crore to Mission Bhagiratha.

  • Telangana: Special classes for government schools’ students who lag behind in academics

    Telangana: Special classes for government schools’ students who lag behind in academics

    Hyderabad: Special classes would be organized for students of the government schools who are lagging behind in academics, said Education Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy here on Wednesday. These classes would be conducted by volunteers comprising school alumni, local youth and NGOs.

    To begin with, the new initiative has been launched in Maheshwaram constituency and it would be extended to the entire Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad, Medchal and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri districts as well, the Minister said during a review meeting on the new initiative at Mandal Parishad Office in Maheshwaram constituency.

    As part of the programme, Class I to V students who are lagging behind in academics would be identified with the help of local public representatives and classes arranged for them in local schools from this summer vacation itself.

    Academics of the students, particularly of the primary classes, have taken a beating due to Covid-19 pandemic. As the educational institutions were closed and classes went online/digital mode during the pandemic, students were promoted to the next class without proper assessment. This has impacted their learning levels.