Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will meet the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several Union Ministers in New Delhi tomorrow with a list of demands, which include special economic incentives for the new state. It would be Rao’s maiden visit to the national capital after taking over as the first Chief Minister of Telangana. Other demands include national project status for Pranahita-Chevella lift irrigation scheme and the Palamuru lift irrigation scheme and scrapping of the merger of seven mandals in Bhadrachalam division — which would be affected by the Polavaram irrigation project — with Andhra Pradesh, TRS sources said in Hyderabad. TRS, the ruling party, is opposed to the merger of these areas with Andhra Pradesh. The Chief Minister ...

At 6 a.m. on May 25, thirteen-year-old Malavath Poorna became the youngest girl to climb the world’s tallest peak. She had carried with her a photograph of Dalit leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the Tricolour in a plastic bag acquired from a fancy store in Secunderabad. Among her belongings was also a flag of her school, the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (APSWREIS), where Poorna is completing Class IX from the Nizamabad district, now in the newly-created Telangana State. Poorna is a ‘Swaero’, just as each one of the 1.7 lakh students who study at the 291 APSWREIS schools spread across the now divided Andhra Pradesh are known. When the going got tough during her ascent to ...

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao today directed the bankers to come up with all detailed reports within a week pertaining to farmers, who got loans from June 2013 to June 2014. Inaugurating the first bankers’ meeting at Secretariat here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister said his Government was committed to keep the promise of loan waiver to farmers in two weeks. Finance Minister Etela Rajender and Agriculture Minister P Srinivas Reddy were present at the meeting. According to the information, Rs 10,000 crores would waived benefiting some 23 lakh farmers in 10 Telangana districts. Keeping in view their poll promise and the plight of the farmers, who are awaiting succor, KCR said bankers’ cooperation was very much needed for ...

Soon after TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao took over as the first Chief Minister of the state, warm greeting started pouring in from all quarters. Micro-blogging site Twitter was abuzz with good wishes for the new government of Telangana. Here are some of the congratulatory tweets posted by leaders on Monday: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: Centre assures complete support to the people & Government of Telangana in taking the state to newer heights of progress; Congrats to K Chandrasekhar Rao Garu on taking oath as Telangana’s 1st CM; My best wishes to people for the state’s development journey: Narendra Modi on the creation of Telangana We welcome Telangana as our 29th state. Telangana will add strength to our development ...

The Government of India under the pretext of constructing Polavaram Dam, in the process of paying compensation to the tribals whose lands are under threat of being submerged has gone to the extent of issuing an ordinance transferring seven Mandals in the tribal district of Khammam from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh. This is unconstitutional, undemocratic, anti-tribal and against the spirit of federalism. At a time when Parliament is about to meet in a week’s time resorting to bring an ordinance in such an hurried manner as if there are no important matters of public interest in front of Modi Government is ridiculous. Transferring of a tribal Village or a Mandal that has predominantly tribal land, from one authority to a ...