The bill to allow merging of 7 mandals of Telangana with Seemandhra under the guise of Polavaram power project was introduced in the Lok Sabha today amid din. It the first bill to be tabled in the House by the BJP-led government. Even as the TRS MPs protested vociferously against the bill which seeks to replace an ordinance promulgated in May by the Narendra Modi government, the BJP went ahead with the introduction of the bill. Yesterday, the bill was referred to the President for recommendation to be placed in the house. The President did the formal approval to withdraw the Ordinance and replace it with the bill. Today evening, the TRS MPs met and protested with the President that introducing the bill without following ...

  NTPC chief Arup Roy Choudhury called on Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and the duo discussed details of the plant, a press release by the Telangana government said on Tuesday. State-run NTPC is expected to commence work on the first unit of the proposed 4,000 mw (5×800) power plant at Ramagundam in Telangana immediately.  “The Chairman NTPC said that the work at the unit will commence immediately and first unit will be completed within 39 months. Necessary environmental clearances will be obtained by the Telangana government for establishing the unit,” the statement said, adding the new plant is expected to come up adjacent to NTPC’s existing 2,600 mw plant at Ramagundam.The Chief Minister has agreed to provide the total required ...

Modi Sarkar on Monday deferred the introduction of the Bill to amend the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 in Lok Sabha realizing the pitfalls of going any further with the Bill, in view of at least 2 constitutional challenges the TRS and BJD threw at it. What makes the backtracks complete is that it even deferred placing before the house the explanatory statement for taking the Ordinance route. In case of Ordinances, this is mandatory to show reasons for immediate legislation through an ordinance (instead of going through of the house). When the scheduled business of Polavaram came up, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh stood up and informed the house that his Government is in the process of obtaining the recommendation of the President in ...

- Dr. Suman K Kasturi The conventional belief is that a leader is different from a manager and a manager is different from a leader. Can the two go hand in hand in a person? Rarely, but it is not an absurdity. The Chief Minister of Telangana KCR is a good example for the same, in my opinion. In order to justify my argument that KCR is an unsurpassable leader with managerial qualities, I would like to provide the following working definitions of a manager and a leader in the opening. In general, a person responsible for controlling or administering an organization or group of staff is called amanager. Such a person is given that status upon getting recognised in terms ...

CM KCR unveiled his administration’s ideas for 2.5 Hours and listed out his priorities in various sectors, including irrigation, power and welfare, where he identified several lapses in the erstwhile combined State. He reminded his administration that all laws hitherto were framed in the context of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.Tthe Chief Minister said new laws would be framed with a Telangana orientation. Addressing a day-long workshop and brainstorming session at Dr Marri Chenna Reddy HR Development Institute, which is aimed at giving a direction to the new state, the Chief Minister said he would himself get involved in the planning process in certain critical departments and asked his Cabinet colleagues to play their part in their respective departments. A large number of officials from every ...