The central government has permitted the state government to register motor vehicles in Telangana state with ‘TS’ code. Earlier, the Centre had given permission for registration of vehicles with ‘TG’ code but the state government wanted TS instead of TG. Accordingly, the central government issued a gazette notification allowing Telangana state to register vehicles with TS code. Transport minister P Mahender Reddy told media persons here on Wednesday that the registration of new vehicles would commence in about four days. There are around 70 lakh vehicles in the state. All the vehicles having AP registration number plates should have new number plates within four months, the minister said. However, the time duration may be further extended, he added. Telangana State ...

Indicating a good sign in the new state, Karimnagar district has now emerged as the rice bowl of Telangana, with an expected record paddy production for the second consecutive year this rabi season (2013-14). The district has broken its own record in this rabi season by procuring about 6,16,751 tonnes of paddy through government agencies like market committees, IKP, primary and tribal cooperative societies at minimum support price of Rs 1,345 for Grade-A variety and Rs ,310 for command variety. With this record level procurement the district has re-written its own history in the paddy procurement stream. In 2010-11 rabi season, the district had procured about 6,08,559 tonne, joint collector Sarfaraz Ahmed revealed to this paper. Paddy procurement is still ...

Good news was in store for government employees, journalists and lawyers on Wednesday as Telangana government acknowledged their role in separate statehood movement and rebuilding it going forward. A special Telangana increment would be extended to all government employees, along with health cards, Governor ESL Narasimhan said in his address to the maiden historic session of both Houses of the State of Telangana, which came into being on June two. Stating that the government would like to have an employee-friendly governance, he said he is confident that this (increment and healthcard) would motivate employees to be public-friendly to rebuild Telangana. A welfare fund would be constituted with a corpus of Rs ten crore for journalists whose role in achieving Telangana ...

The Telangana government plans to establish tribal and horticulture universities, cotton and silk hub, and pursue with the Railway Ministry to set up a coach factory in Kazipet. As per the AP Reorganisation Act, a tribal university would be established at the earliest, Governor E S L Narasimhan said in his address to the maiden session of both Houses of Telangana state, which came into being on June 2. “We are aware that there is demand from tribals of plain areas for sanctioning an ITDA (Integrated Tribal Development Agency) for them. We will examine this and take appropriate steps soon,” Narasimhan said. The government would like to establish a cotton and silk hub in Warangal and Sircilla on the lines ...

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the officials of Information Technology (IT) Department to draft a master plan by engaging consultants of international standard for expansion of IT hubs at Gachibowli, Maheshwaram and Pocharam and development of infrastructure for the proposed Information Technology & Investment Region (ITIR). At a review meeting held with the officials here on Tuesday, he instructed them to involve GHMC, HMDA, HMWSS&B, APIIC, Revenue, Electricity, HMR and Sports Departments for providing roads, electricity, underground drainage, transport, health city, education and other basic amenities. He also suggested connecting the ITIR with ORR and radial ring road as the ITIR corridor was expected to become the economic backbone of Telangana. Minister for IT and Panchayat Raj K.T. ...