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Telangana government will provide land, power and water to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for setting up a unit at Nagarjuna Sagar in Nalgonda. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a review with ministers and officials on Wednesday concerned here on the issue, a release from his office said. 100 Acres has been sanctioned for the project. DRDO plans testing and manufacture of critical components and subsystems of underwater systems which operate in  harsh sea water environment.  Presently there is a field testing in Nagarjuna Sagar to subject the systems to extreme hydrostatic pressure conditions. DRDO wont test these sub assemblies etc., straight away at sea as loss of such system during trials would result in massive losses. Therefore some ...

While AP CM Chandrababu Naidu makes all positive noises about solving issues through dialogue with his TS counterpart, he continues to play the negative role in adhering to the AP Reorganisation Act or to the advice of Central Government bodies. Only yesterday the ERC rejected AP’s ‘PPA Cancellation’ exercise in a detailed report. Today, AP rejected those findings and continued to insist the PPAs are cancelled and so it can’t share power with Telangana. The AP Reorganisation Act ensured 53 per cent of the available supply to the new state while AP refuses to abide by it. AP has rejected guidelines from CEA, APERC, LDC, Union Power Ministry in the PPA issue till now and seems in no mood to abide by ...

The Kamalnathan Committee will be meeting on Wednesday to finalise guidelines for distribution of around 50,000 State level employees. The committee, which was flooded with thousands of suggestions over its draft guidelines uploaded 10 days ago, is expected to do some minor changes but leave critical demands on accommodating employees in respective native states to the 2 states to resolve on their own. The committee will discuss this in today’s meeting, make some recommendations and amends based on the discussions and forward the final guidelines to the Department of Personnel and Training for approval of the Prime Minister. The committee reportedly decided to have a coordination committee with the officials of State Reorganisation cells of both the States to oversee the options and allotment ...

Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) of China has come forward to set up a 660-1,000 Mw power generation facility in Telangana in the shortest time possible. A high level delegation from Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) of China met the Hon’ble Chief Minister Sri. K. Chandrashekar Rao today at Secretariat. The delegation consists of Mr. Han Zhiqiao, President DEC International and Chairman DEC India, Mr. Liang Jian, Managing Director, DEC India, Dr. Zhang Hong, General Manager (Thermal) DEC International China, Mr. Zhang Chengli, Mr. S.K. Bhan DEC Representative in India. DEC is the world’s largest power equipment manufacturers and are based at Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Their main business has been power equipment manufacturing and power projects contracting. They have their business base in more than 30 countries and ...

Chairman of Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL) Ajay G. Piramal has appreciated the Telangana State government’s promptness and pro-activeness in reaching out to industrial houses. Ajay Piramal, who met the Chief Minister on July 30, wrote a letter praising the Chief Minister and his team and termed their plans robust and foresighted. “It was a real pleasure meeting you and getting to know the vision you have set for the Telangana state. I was personally impressed with the openness and candor with which you spoke of the challenges of governance and how you are addressing them for laying a robust foundation for the nascent Telangana State. Your plans for industrializing the state are robust and the envisioned policies and policy framework seem ...