After a marathon 6 hour cabinet meet, CM KCR opened up to a packed media on Wednesday night on a plethora of issues. At his usual extempore self, he answered every question thrown at him by national and regional media. Here are some answers he gave to important issues that made headlines in last 1 month. Telangana CM KCR opened up about the press statements of his AP counterpart Chandrababu Naidu that he is ready for talks with him to resolve issues between the two states. KCR said that he is open for talks with Naidu just as he is open for talks with CMs of other neighboring states like Raman Singh, Siddaramaih, Prithviraj Chavan. However, he called Naidu’s bluff by pointing that despite his public ...

Chief Minister KCR announced a complete overhaul of Government provided assistance to students so far being done through fee reimbursements. He announced that the cabinet  decided to scrap fee reimbursement and introduce a new scheme named ‘Financial Assistance for Students of Telangana (FAST)’. The decision came after a month of the all party meet held to discuss the issue. The all party meet too decided the program needs corrections to provide help to the right deserving students. Only students whose families were natives of Telangana prior to 1956 will be eligible to avail fee reimbursement and scholarships for professional courses from this year. The Telangana Cabinet on Wednesday approved 1956 as the cut-off year to determine the nativity of Telangana students. 1956 was ...

Chief Minister KCR came down heavily on land grabbers in the press conference on Wednesday. He said some in media and private groups are trying to justify encroachments of Govt lands by comparing those with Microsoft and Infosys which are built on what were once wakf lands. He said these escape routes wont work and pointed to the fact that while those companies were allotted lands by Governments, companies like Lanco and MR Properties cheated Government by using lands allotted to them for purposes other than what they were meant for. He said the Govt. would take action against them. The CM said his Govt. will clear encroachments on Gurukul Trust lands and Bhoodan lands and that it is it’s duty is to protect government and trust ...

CM KCR and his cabinet decided upon 43 important decisions today. Among the important decisions, the Government reiterated it will issue loan waiver as per poll promise and that would benefit 39,07,409 farmers. The Govt scrapped Fee Reimbursement & Introduced a new scheme called Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana (FAST) in it’s place. FAST issues scholarship based on income and nativity criteria to the students. A committee will shortly issue all guidelines in this regard. For nativity, 1956 is considered cutoff for families looking to benefit under the scheme. The CM explained the decisions and some additional issue sin the press conferences after the cabinet meet today. We bring here most of the decisions and declarations made today. More details are awaited. 10 ...