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The Central government has nominated Telangana CM KCR as the Vice Chairman of Southern Zonal Council. Union Home Minster Rajnath Singh is nominated as the Chairman. The Southern Zonal Council, comprises the States of  Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha was the Vice-Chairman for an year till 10 July, 2014 and KCR is nominated to succeed her, retrospectively, from 11 July, 2014 and his term will be for 1 year. The Vice-Chairman post is taken by rotation by all member states for 1 year. The nomination is interesting coming in the middle of visible bias of the centre in favor of AP ruled by ally TDP in all it’s ...

Telangana Chief Minister KCR on Tuesday assured that his government would introduce a first-of-kind industrial policy with international standards wherein investors would be able to start their businesses in Telangana in shortest possible time in the country. Interacting with the industrialists associated with FICCI, CII, FAPCCI and other industry bodies here, KCR said that the new policy, to be unveiled in next month, would be very friendly to industries. The Chasing Cell of CMO would ensure clearances of all business proposals through single-window system, which otherwise would take about two to three years with over 24 to 30 different clearances required. Except for environment, all other clearances would be given within three weeks, said the CM. Further, he said that Pollution Control ...

Telangana state is working towards a ‘zero-corruption industrial policy’ that would also unveil a efficient single-window clearance for setting up industries. As industry bigwigs are queueing up with their proposals, India’s newest state doesn’t want to waste any time with red tape and is planning to unveil it’s industrial policy in about a month. More comprehensive policies related to different verticals, from IT to manufacturing, will follow later, as per sources. Some of the big proposals with the state government are from Microsoft, ITC Paperboards, NTPC, Hero Motors, Tata Advanced Systems, Birlas etc. The Government is prodding existing players in Telangana too about their expansion plans and is considering all their plans in framing it’s policy. The state government has ...

The union minister on Monday said centre will consider setting up an IIM in Telangana in the future. HRD Minister Smriti Irani told Rajya Sabha on Monday that at present there is no proposal under consideration to set up IIM in Telangana. However, she said, the HRD Ministry is committed to setting up an IIM in states that do not have an IIM. So, the Ministry will consider setting up an IIM in Telangana. She said two separate requests have been received from S Venu Gopalachary, special representative of Telangana state in New Delhi, and Lok Sabha MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha to set up the institute in India’s 29th state. In the budget, 5 new IIMs were declared for Himachal Pradesh, ...

The Telangana government is keen to acquire 51 per cent stake owned by the central government in Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL). Telangana, just like some other states, is reeling under severe coal shortage which it needs to overcome to be self-reliant in power in next 3 years, as per its plans. Owning the company wholly would mean Telangana gets full control over the coal it produces, which it can use for it’s own needs. Telangana government is exploring the possibilities of purchasing the entire shareholding of the Union government in the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) to make it totally a state owned company. Chief minister,KCR, directed the officials to provide him full details in this regard to take a final decision, according ...