Telangana Bhoodan Authority was constituted here on Saturday. The state government adapted Andhra Pradesh Bhoodan and Gramdhan Act, 1965 to the state of Telangana under Section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. The government issues GO 11 and appointed principal secretary (Revenue) as authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the Telangana Bhoodan Board. Immediately, 3500 files of the existing AP Bhoodan Yagna board have been moved from it’s present headquarters in Gandhi Bhawan to CCLA office. The files are now being studied to see where all the original land bank was and how much of it is occupied illegally. For instance, in Sheikpet, out of the original 50 acres, hardly 7 is left now, as ...

78 landed in Hyderabad, from among the 183 Indians who arrived to India by a special Air India flight from Erbil, capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The flight reached Hyderabad via Kochi, where 46 nurses from Kerala disembarked. The flight initially landed in Mumbai where no one got down. An official of Telangana government said 52 are from the state were among those who returned Saturday. 40 of them belonged to Karimnagar district, nine to Adilabad district, two to Medak and one to Nizamabad district. Around 26 from AP also got down at the Hyderabad airport. There were emotional scenes at the airport as the workers re-united with their families. They complained of ill-treatment by the employers and many of them said they ...

Telangana is going to challenge Gujarat for the title of the State with India’s largest solar park. Telangana has started the due process for setting up a 1000 MW plant in Mahbubnagar. The Telangana Government has earlier decided  to set up an integrated 1,000 MW solar power generation park at the backward district of Mahbubnagar. The project is being taken up by Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) in partnership with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). After getting SECI’s approval, Telangana has been moving quickly to put together the action plan to go ahead. About 5,000 acres has been allocated for the park. The developers of projects will bring in the investments. The Government’s role will be limited to facilitation and ...

The TRS Government already asked for Rs 600 crore from the Centre for conducting a comprehensive land survey in the State, Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali has said. The existing land records in the state were prepared based on the land survey done by the Nizam government in 1938. Though the land survey was to be carried out once in 30 years, no such efforts were made by previous governments. With no proper land records, the TRS government is not in a position to reclaim valuable government and Wakf lands, especially in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts, where realty prices have been sky high during the last decade.Several lands have been registered under multiple names illegally, which ended up in court cases.  Mr Ali also took up the ...

This will be possible only if there is an attitudinal change among power loom weavers, say owners. Tirupur Stakeholders Forum website says entrepreneurial skills of the people, coupled with hard work and commitment to job made the city grow in leaps and bounds. Telangana Government’s assertion to develop Sircilla on the lines of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, referred to as the knitwear capital of India, has rekindled hopes among the power loom weavers. Replicating the Tirupur model would do wonders for the textile town in Telangana, only if there was attitudinal change among the power loom weavers, according to the loom owners. The town and its surrounding areas were rocked by a spate of suicides by the weavers due to ...