There is no official statement yet from Telangana government on the stand it would take on the strong objections raised by various employee JACs over the guidelines released by Kamalanathan Committee over employee allocation between AP & Telangana.  Meanwhile, the committee set time till August 5 to receive suggestions from various sections and it would meet on August 13 to consider the suggestions and finalise the guidelines. The committee would the submit the final report to the Department of Personnel and Training on August 14 for Centre’s clearance. Once the PM signs it, curtains would come down on issue. With just 5 days left, Telangana employees are brainstorming and collating all objections and data to support them to give a report ...

The Telangana State Government has issued GO 36 to finalize the guidelines for FAST scholarship scheme being introduced from this year. This is in follow up to the  decision made at the 3rd Cabinet Meeting of the Council of Ministers held at 3 P.M. on 16th July 2014. There were earlier reports on the brainstorming of what could end up in this final list of guidelines, including high marks and attendance percentage for students wishing to avail the scholarship. The Guidelines will be framed by a committee comprising: Principal Secretary to Government, Scheduled Castes Development, ST, BC Welfare Departments. Secretary to Government., Higher Education Department Principal Secretary to Government., PR & RD Department Principal Secretary to Government, General Administration Department Secretary to Government, Law ...

Center delivered mighty good news to AP with regard to the institutions of higher learning. It delivered on all promises for AP made in the 13th Schedule of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.  Today, The Union Ministry of Human Resources has notified its decision to establish one Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), National Institute of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Central University (CU) and one Tribal University (TU) in the State of Andhra Pradesh. Telangana got just one Tribal University (TU).  The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Government of Telangana have been requested by the Central Government for identification of land and physical infrastructure for ...

Only yesterday, Telangana Talkies carried  a story on the circumstances surrounding transfer of Prinicpal Secretary (Energy), Mr. Suresh Chanda and wondered whose job would the next meeting cost. And yellow media created a good story around that inconsequential transfer to put the state government in bad light. Right from day 1, there was criticism of that officer’s lack of enthusiasm to understand and defend Telangana’s interests. While conceding away power as per AP’s wishes, like in the area of unconventional energy generation, the Secretary’s unspirited defense costed another 65 MW in the CEA meeting in Delhi. As we reported, he was booted out the next day. The TEEJAC wanted him out as his stint costed Telangana a whopping 1350 MW! They ...

Irrigation minister Harish Rao lashed out at Telangana Congress leaders who have criticized the 2 month old TRS Government. Pointing that the criticism of the Govt. from Ponnala Lakshmaiah, K Jana Reddy is only to show their political presence, the minister what these 2 ex-ministers in 2 successive Congress governments were doing while YSR moved all power projects to AP. The minister asked the senior Congress leaders why they didn’t book the power grid at least for Telangana’s future while Tamil Nadu was doing every effort. As we know, Tamil Nadu did the advance booking for 1000 MW years ago and their is hardly 250 MW for 4 southern states rom the North South grid. Last ditch efforts by Telangana Government ...