Even as the Telangana government is going after “unauthorised” properties in Hyderabad, the Centre on Sunday sent a communication to it, proposing amendments to the existing business rules under Section VIII (A) of the AP Reorganisation Act-2014, investing the Governor with powers to deal with law & order in the State capital. Interestingly, the Centre stepped in just a couple of days after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu shot off a missive to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his immediate intervention for the “protection of properties and interests of Seemandhra people living in Hyderabad.” In the communication, sent by Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami to the Telangana government, it was proposed to set up a Common Police Board, ...

After issues over Polavaram, Power PPAs, Water to Delta, the BJP and TDP combine in AP and in Centre are moving to hand the powers over law & order in Hyderabad and Cyberabad jurisdictions to the common governor. As per news from Delhi, the centre reportedly prepared this draft after AP CM Chandrababu Naidu gave it in writing to the Centre that the the law & order in Hyderabad should be maintained through the police forces of both AP & Telangana. Mr Naidu asked in his letter that all powers over law& order should be vested with the Governor and that the Commissioners of police should report directly to the Governor and not either of the State Governments. As per ...

The first bill that the Modi government has lined up in Lok Sabha is the Andhra Pradesh reorganization ordinance that it expects will be passed despite the opposition of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and BJD.The government is counting on the support of Congress, TDP and YSR Congress that it feels will be handy in ensuring that the bill — with its component on the Polavaram project — passes through Parliament.TRS has opposed the ordinance’s clauses that set out transfer of some villages in the Bhadrachalam areas to Andhra Pradesh. The displacement due to the project is a concern to the BJD as well.However, the government seems confident that the ordinance will be converted into an act, as it is confident ...

In addition to the power losses they already pointed out, to the tune of 955 MW, the Telangana Electricity Employees’ JAC pointed out another instance now where AP is taking power from Telangana’s share that was mandated through AP Re-organization Act. TEEJAC proved earlier that Telangana is losing an estimated 17.1 million units of power everyday with AP’s acts of defiance towards the AP ReOrg Act. In the latest example, Telangana’s loss is 72 MW. With this, the total loss of share for Telangana increased to 1027 MW. The TEEJAC on Friday alleged that the Telangana State Transco (TSTransco) has lost 72 MW of capacity, resulting in a loss of 500 million units of energy, by its decision to forgo its rightful ...

With the CWC operating unilaterally through the Krishna River Board and granting water to even irrigation in Krishna Delta, under AP’s pressure, Telangana Govt. shot off a letter to it, objecting to it deciding water releases to Krishna and issuing orders directly to the Project Engineer at Nagarjuna Sagar Dam. In response, the CWC notified both the states that there would be a meeting on 7th or 8th of July. Right now, water from Nagarjuna Sagar is being released to Delta as per CWC’s instructions, after a brief stoppage on Tuesday night. Telangana questioned the rationale behind the latest order to release water to Delta when the Sagar water is just at 515 feet against the dead storage of 510 ...