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AP Grabs 1350 MW From Telangana’s Share In Power, Say Statistics!

Estimated Power Loss For Telangana Due To AP's Non-compliance To Power Allocations Done As Per AP Re-Org Act

TELANGANA ELECTRICITY EMPLOYEES’ JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE (TEEJAC) has made a comprehensive representation to the Principal Secretary (Energy) Suresh Chanda summing up all the losses Telangana has incurred due to AP’s non-compliance with the Power Allocation formula decided by the AP Re-Organization Act. The Co-ordinator of TEEJAC K. Raghu has furnished facts and figures and proved that Telangana is losing 21 Million Units immediately and a total of 31.5 Million Units in the long term. In MW terms, it is 135o MW in short term and around 3130 MW over long term. This immediate loss is more than the deficit Telangana is presently reeling under, pointed out the report. TEEJAC requested the Telangana State Government to take up this report and the figures ...

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NIMS Bibinagar Getting Ready To Open In 2 Months!

NIMS Bibinagar

TRS is making good of it’s promise to operationalize the 1,000 bed healthcare facility in NIMS Bibinagar campus within next 2 months. Telangana Government put pressure on NIMS to take the campus works on priority and NIMS has resumed work on the campus and is completing pending electrical and civic works. The building itself was ready 4 years ago but the works were not completed, allegedly deliberate neglect to delay the campus operations. The campus will cater to the healthcare needs of people from the 4 districts of Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Medak and Warangal districts. Now with Telangana becoming a reality, NIMS is completing the works which may take some time for the whole of 1000 bed facility but the outpatient departments would start working in ...

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Telangana Launches 5 Point Retro-Fit Program For Sustainable IT Parks

An Artist's impression of the interior of a green office building.

Telangana IT & Industries Minister K Taraka Ramarao on Wednesday inaugurated a Retrofitting center on the premises of Tech Mahindra in Madhapur, Hyderabad. Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC), in technical cooperation with the Indo-German Environment Partnership Cell (IGEP), of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, has setup this Center and launched the Retro-fitting Programme for Information Technology Parks in Cyberabad Zone. Representatives from German Emabassy and many CEOs of IT companies participated at the event. Retrofitting is about adding new green-friendly features to older systems. It is aimed at improving the economic performance, work environment, employability and environment performance of the IT parks and will be initially tested in IT parks in Madhapur and Nanakramguda. “GIZ has already done ‘greening’ of industrial parks and retrofitting ...

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Telangana Revisiting Sir Visvesvarayya’s & CIB’s Abandoned Water Management Schemes

Gandipet 1948; Courtesy: LIFE

  One of the most lasting legacies of the Deccan has been the water management policy formulated by the Kakatiya dynasty, which relied mainly on small tanks for its irrigation and drinking water requirements. There was a time when the Telangana countryside boasted of thousands of tanks which ensured a perennial supply of water for settlements across the region. The Qutub Shahi rulers continued the practice by adding numerous tanks of their own, especially in the areas abutting the citadel at Golconda. A majority of those tanks continued to serve the population till post-reorganisation exploitation of the region’s resources led to their being either rendered dry or unusable due to pollution. Following the great floods of 1908, Mahboob Ali Khan, the ...

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Full Text Of The Atrocious Circular That Takes Away Hyderabad From Telangana!

Governor ESL Narasimhan

The Circular (No. 12012/05/2014-SR) sent by the joint secretary in union home ministry to Mr Rajeev Sharma, chief secretary to the Telangana government, is as follows: Governor to get reports on law and order in city “In order to ensure that the provisions regarding the special responsibility of the Governor is implemented smoothly vis-a-vis the Government of Telangana, the following amendments to the state business transaction rules are proposed: (1) The Governor shall have power to call for any record or information or decision of the Council of Ministers or any authority relating to the responsibilities envisaged under Section 8 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014. The Commissioners of Police and the SP of Ranga Reddy district shall furnish periodical ...

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