The questionable path the Gurukul teachers took to do dharna and humiliate an IPS officer, one of most upright officers in Telangana is worrying. RS Praveen Kumar IPS, is Secretary, Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society. He is Secretary of APSWREIS, and oversaw the functioning of about 290 residential schools. He is a honest, passionate IPS officer who, for years, chose deliberately to serve in the Social Welfare department for his passion towards uplifting the downtrodden. Even when the Telangana State is formed, he preferred the same post. He is the brain behind the social welfare school students Poorna and Anand’s conquest of Mt. Everest. He is father figure for the kids so much so that both kids want to be IPS officers and name ...

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 ...

After repeated directions by the load dispatch centres, the APERCs and the Central ERC to AP to maintain status quo regarding the power PPAs fell on deaf ears, the whole PPA cancellation gameplan by AP is heading towards a political settlement at the Centre. The ERC said this in as many words when it asked Centre to take the final call as it’s own authority has been questioned by AP with it’s continued defiance. With the Centre visibly inclining towards AP, due to the political alliances, Telangana is already seeing red.  The ERC’s decision not to involve itself in the power struggle came as surprise as the commission was asked to be the regulator for both the states till a separate ...

  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 ...

After registering it’s strong protest with the Centre on the circular issued by Union Home Ministry regarding giving the Governor overriding powers over it in issues related to Hyderabad’s law & order, the Telangana Government is awaiting Centre’s next move on the issue. The Telangana chief secretary Rajeev Sharma on Monday wrote back to the Union home ministry stating that the circular is a clear-cut infringement on the powers of the elected government. Mr Sharma offered his comments on each of the 12 points raised by the ministry of home affairs in the circular regarding granting of powers to the Governor in the administration of law and order in the common capital area. He stated that under Article 163, the Governor was supposed ...