The Kamalanathan committee has released the guidelines for allocation of employees between 2 states of Telangana & AP. Telangana employees announced their reservations on the guidelines and said the committee hasn’t considered any of their representations over injustice being done to Telangana employees. Among the many issues they raised over the guidelines are the options being given to employees to choose the state they serve and when considering nativity as one criterion, limiting it to seven years of continuous education. Telangana emplyees also faulted placing Principal Secretary of AP Govt. as the nodal officer to monitor the distribution of employees. The monitoring too would be done from AP Secretariat.  “The guidelines show clear partiality towards Seemandhra employees. The nodal officer who ...

After successfully engineering the transfer of the 7 mandals from Telangana to AP, claiming it to make rehabilitation measures easier for the people displaced by the project, AP is now claiming that Telangana has no stake in Polavaram project as the project is geographically no more in Telangana’s territory. So AP is now demanding Centre to kick out Telangana from the Polavaram Project Authority (PPA), the special purpose vehicle created to implement the mammoth project, under the AP Reorganisation Act. The Telangana government on Thursday appointed its chief secretary Rajiv Sharma and the relief and rehabilitation commissioner as the state’s nominees in Polavaram Project Authority (PPA). That raised curtains on yet an another drama by AP CM Chandrababu Naidu. He decided to lodge a ...

The Delhi meeting of the high power committee headed by CEA Chairman Neerja Mathur delivered the expected result. It made no headway and couldn’t set right AP’s defiance of allocations made in AP Reorg Act to the 2 states. Instead, it granted AP’s wish for additional power of 65 MW from Central Generating Stations. Telangana agreed to part with that power prior to the meeting itself. AP was arguing about the disparity that cropped up in the allocation of power from the CGS to the 2 states and that based on usage of power for last 5 years, AP merits an additional allocation of 1.77 %. So AP’s share is increased from 46.11 per cent to 47.88 per cent while Telangana’s share decreased ...

The Pratyush Sinha Committee, constituted by the Centre, met in New Delhi and held discussions with Telangana chief secretary Dr Rajiv Sharma and his AP counterpart I.Y.R. Krishna Rao over the distribution of All India Service (AIS) officers for the 2 states. The guidelines are finalized for allotment and are forwarded to PMO for clearance. Officers would be allotted in 13:10 ration between AP & Telangana. Telangana has only 44 IAS officers allotted now on provisional basis and so is grappling with huge work load and administration has been affected. Going by this ratio, it would get an additional 34 IAS officers providing relief. But this may happen only towards August end when the whole process is complete. Officers originating from ...

Volatile situation was created near Aghapura Hanuman Mandir in Sitarampet area of Mangalhat in Hyderabad yesterday when Goshamahal MLA Raja Singh and his supporters constructed a wall illegally around a temple, in GHMC area without any permissions. Reportedly,the construction of wall started at 3 AM in the dark before the GHMC authorities and police came in put a stop to it. Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh then reached the spot and got into an argument with police and GHMC officials and forcibly restarted the construction with dozens of his associates. Mangalhat police registered a case against Raja Singh and 20 of his associates under sections 447, 427 and 188 r/w 149 of the IPC and convinced the locals to voluntarily remove the wall. Rapid ...