Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao today directed the officials of the Agriculture department to get ready for Kharif spell beginning rainy season from next week. The Chief Minister held a high-level review meeting, along with Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Major Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao, Education Minister G Jagadish Reddy and Excise Minister T. Padma Rao at the Secretariat here on Thursday. The officials gave details relating to Kharif preparedness through power point presentation. Speaking on the occasion, KCR asked the officials to fully gear up for Kharif with adequate quantity of seed, fertilizers and farm equipment. The entire department, in coordination with all concerned, should go in for providing timely succor to farm community in Telangana, the ...

After four years of political uncertainty, which ended in the creation of Telangana, attention is now turning towards rebuilding brand Hyderabad. State information technology minister K Taraka Rama Rao is set to clear several IT companies’ expansion plans, which had been put on the back burner all these years. Among the companies geared up for expanding their operations in and around Hyderabad are tech major such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Cognizant, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Taking charge of his ministry on Thursday, Rao said the expansion plans of the MNCs would provide 40,000 direct jobs. “Encouraging the growth of the IT sector is the top priority of our government,” he told the media. “By ‘grounding’ (starting) the projects ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telangana CM KCR’s office is in touch with PMO for an appointment between KCR and PM Modi on either June 6 or 7. KCR plans to be in Delhi those 2 days to meet the PM, his cabinet ministers and other national leaders in NDA and Congress. While this is supposed to be a courtesy visit and to invite the Prime Minister for the official State Formation celebrations, likely to be held later this month on a grand scale, certain critical issues like Polavaram, Special Category status & consultative mechanism between Telangana and Andhra for bifurcation issues inevitably landed on his discussion list. Persuading the Centre to declare the Pranahita-Chevella lift-irrigation project as a national project is also high on ...