The Police are not exactly popular establishment in Telangana society, which is marked by continuous anti-establishment for generations, thanks to the brutal suppression embarked by erstwhile rulers of AP through the Police. So quite rightly, the TRS Govt. wants to go for an image makeover of the Police even as it stresses on ‘people-friendly’ approach to them. The exercise is intended as much to make police gain more acceptability in the rural Telangana as it is to modernise them with real-time information and quick response teams with an integrated and modern command centre. The Telangana police is breaking away from it’s past and reinventing itself as a smart and modern force. The era of khaki is over. The state government headed by ...

Telangana State is preparing for the worst case scenario now as AP started using all power it is producing without sharing it with Telangana as per the provisions of AP ReOrganization Act. AP even stopped sharing information with central power utilities about the power it produces, on a daily basis. The reason the utilities are told by the AP Officials is that they have withdrawn from PPAs notwithstanding the objections from Union Energy Ministry and the Telangana Government. Now that they withdrawn, all power they produce of for intra-state purposes and so there is no need to share any info with other states or central utilities. And to make matters worse, the AP government seems to be keen to invoke Section ...

The Southern Grid is facing grave risk due to the adamant behaviour of the AP Generation Corporation. “Andhra Pradesh is playing an extremely dangerous game with the Southern Region Load Despatch Centre, Bangalore. Given its behaviour today, the grid can collapse if AP overdraws,” a top official source told a national daily.  Noticing the seriousness of the situation, Telangana chief minister Mr K Chandrashekar Rao rushed power secretary Mr Suresh Chanda to Delhi this evening. The latter also spoke to the secretary, Union ministry of power and NTPC authorities. Mr Rao asked officials to immediately talk with other states to purchase power if the situation demands. The chief engineer of the AP Genco has to give the production schedule a day in advance to the Bangalore Centre. AP is treating its power projects ...

The government of Telangana has intensified its efforts to counter the move by the Andhra Pradesh government to cancel power purchase agreements (PPAs) after news broke that AP is aggressively pursuing the matter despite Centre’s earlier rejection . Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao Friday asked the officials to collect all the relevant material and submit the same to the union government. He has asked Principal Secretary, Energy, Suresh Chandra to stay in New Delhi for few days for discussion with union government officials. The official already held talks with the union power secretary and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) authorities. With the Andhra Pradesh government’s move threatening to plunge the newly created Telangana state into a power crisis, the chief minister Friday reviewed ...

The Telangana Government has zeroed in on the backward district of Mahbubnagar to set up an integrated 1,000 mw solar power generation park. The project will to be taken up by Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation in partnership with Solar Energy Corporation of India. The SECI has given in-principle approval for the park, K. Pradeep Chandra, Principal Chief Secretary, Industries, Government of Telangana, said. Speaking on the sidelines of CII PaperTech conference, he said that typically one MW requires an investment of about Rs 6 crore. The developers of projects will bring in these investments. The Government role will be limited to facilitation and creation of necessary support infrastructure. Industrial policy He said that the Government will soon come out with ...