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PRANAHITA-CHEVELLA PROJECT
TS, Maharashtra officials
to meet on March 13
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: The PranahitaChevella dam height figured
mainly in talks between Irrigation officials of Telangana and
Maharashtra states held at Jalasoudha on Wednesday.
While Maharashtra sought the
height be reduced from 152 feet,
Telangana State government
maintained that a Pune- based
Resource Institute stated that
there were no technical problems with the height.
Irrigation Engineers-in-Chief
TSCHE
names CET
conveners
Hyderabad: The Telangana
State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) here on
Wednesday announced conveners for holding Common
Entrance Tests (CETs) in the
State. Professor N V Ramana
Rao, Jawaharlal Technological
University-Hyderabad (JNTUH) has been re-appointed as
the convener of the Engineering, Agricultural and Medical
Common Entrance Test
(EAMCET). Similarly Prof M
V Ranga Rao from Kakatiya
University (KU) for Lawcet
and PG lawcet, Prof M Yadaiah of JNTU-H for Ecet, Prof
K Omprakash of KU for
ICET, Prof P Prasad of OU for
Edcet, Prof J Prabhakar Rao
of OU for PEcet, Prof A Venugopal Reddy of OU for PGECET have been appointed as
conveners. All arrangement
were made for holding Common Entrance Tests. TSCHE
chairman Prof T Papi Reddy
said that examinations would
be held as per the scheduled
announced by the council. As
per the schedule, Eamcet will
be held on May 14, Ecet on
May 21, Icet on May 22, Lawcet onMay 19, Edcet on June
6, Physical Edcet on May 25
and PGgecet on June 4.
Girl delivers baby
at police station
Mahabubnagar: A girl, Sarada
(19), delivered a baby boy on
the premises of Balanagar police station in the district on
Wednesday. However, the newborn died after some time in the
police station itself. The Police
admitted her in the hospital. According to police, Sarada and
Ramesh, who belonged to
Medigadda tanda in Balanagar
mandal, fell in love. Ramesh
impregnated Sarada on the pretext of marrying her. Later, he
backtracked on his promise.
Parents of Sarada took her to a
hospital after she complained of
stomach-ache. After performing
tests, doctors confirmed that
Sarada was in the seventh
month of
pregnancy.
of both Telangana State and Maharashtra states discussed issues
relating to Pranahita-Chevella
and Babhali projects. Citing
Supreme Court judgment that
directed Maharashtra to release
0.6 tmct of water every year from
March 1, Telangana State urged
the neighboring State to ensure
the same.
However, Maharashtra officials expressed their helplessness due to lack of adequate
water.
In response, Telangana officials requested their counter-
parts to take action according to
apex court directives. As regards
the Pranahita-Chevella project,
the neighbouring State made an
appeal to Telangana to reconsider its decision in regard to the
height of the dam because of the
risk of displacement of villages.
Telangana Irrigation officials
gave them the report of a Punebased firm that approved technicalities relating to the project.
Irrigation officials of both
states decided to meet again on
March 13 to arrive at an acceptable decision.
Govt. to invite fresh tenders
for Dindi reservoir Meanwhile,
government decided to invite
fresh tenders pending receipt of
government orders for closure of
existing EPC contract for the
work of construction of Dindi
Balancing Reservoir of SLBC
Tunnel scheme across Dindi
river near Mothia Thanda of
Teldeverapalli village in Nalgonda district. The decision was
taken to avoid further loss of
time as Dindi reservoir formed a
vital link in the total Tunnel
scheme.
Fee reimbursement to
all eligible: Kadiyam
Improve literacy
rate in villages,
MP tells officials
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: Telangana State
Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam
Srihari made it clear that all eligible students in the State would
get fee reimbursement from the
government.
Speaking to newspersons after
holding a meeting with group of
Ministers and Educational Department officials at Secretariat
here on Wednesday, Srihari said
the government had decided to
continue the fee reimbursement
scheme for the students.
The meeting, which was attended by Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy, Finance Minister
Eatala Rajender, Health Medical
and Family Welfare Minister C
Laxma Reddy, Forest and Environment Minister Jogu Ramanna, discussed the implementation of the scheme in the past.
“Over the years how many students were beneﬁtted with the
scheme and what was expenditure incurred was discussed. We
have given instructions to officials
of Education Department, Social
Welfare, Tribal Welfare, Minority
Sircilla
(Karimnagar):
Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar said that if a Member of
Parliament adopts a village
and develops it on all fronts
then the surrounding villages would also witness development.
Vinod Kumar toured Veernapalle village in Yellareddypet mandal in the district
on Wednesday. He adopted
Veernapalli village as part of
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
He also launched the Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan scheme in
the village on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion,
the MP said that officials
should strive to improve the
literacy rate in villages. He
stated that development
would become possible only
on promotion of literacy in
villages.
Vinod Kumar pointed out
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
for MPs so that they can
adopt backward villages and
develop them.
Kadiyam Srihari
Welfare Department, Medical and
Health Department, Women Welfare Department to identify the
number eligible students for the
scheme for the current academic
year,” Srihari said.
The report would be placed in
the Cabinet Sub-Committee
meeting scheduled on February
11 for a decision.
“We will come to a conclusion
in the meeting and it will be presented to the Chief Minister,” the
Deputy Chief Minister said.
WARANGAL THURSDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2015
Karne lashes out at
Ponnala, TDP leaders
Hyderabad: TRS MLC Karne
Prabhakar on Wednesday alleged
that TPCC president Ponnala
Lakshmaiah had been criticising
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar
Rao only to save his post.
Speaking to media persons in
the TRS Legislature Party office
here, Prabhakar alleged that Lakshmaiah had been desperately
trying to be in the news to remain
in limelight. It was also intended
to protect his post as TPCC president.
Stating that KCR was only interested in developing Telangana
State, he alleged that the Congress and TDP were criticising the
Chief Minister only to show off to
make impression on their party
leaders. Justifying the decision to
shift State Secretariat, Prabhakar
said the location of HOD offices
at different places was creating
difficulties in the movement of inter-department ﬁles. Therefore,
KCR took a wise decision to move
the Secretariat to a new building
which would house offices of all
HODs too.
The Congress leaders should
introspect as why its government
had sold way prime properties in
the city. He alleged that Lakshmaiah had indulged in large-scale irregularities in the implementation of Jalayagnum projects
during his stint as Irrigation Minister. The TRS MLC also slammed
Telangana TDP leaders for sub-
Work for welfare of
SCs, NCSC member
tells officials
Nalgonda: National Commisuntouchasion for Scheduled Castes
bility and
(NCSC) member PM Kaattacks on
malamma on Wednesday called
SCs.
upon the officials to work with
She sugdedication for the welfare of
gested the
SCs and ensure social justice to
officials to
them.
organise
The SC Commission memCivil Rights
ber held a review meeting with
Day
in
the officials of various departthose vilments at the Collectorate here Kamalamma
l a g e s
on cases of atrocities, revenue
where atissues and particulars of SC
tacks on SCs were reported.
Sub-Plan beneﬁciaries from
She instructed District Collec2009 to 2014.
tor P Satyanarayana Reddy to
Kamalamma said that the
display the portraits of BR
State and the Central governAmbedkar and Babu Jagjivan
ments launched several welfare
Ram in all the government ofschemes for the uplift of SCs
ﬁces.
and it was the responsibility of
She asked the officials to
the officials to implement the
spend the SC Sub-Plan funds
GOs regarding the schemes and
by the end of the ﬁnancial year.
ensure that the beneﬁts reach
Drinking water facility and Anthe SCs. She underlined the
ganwadi centres should be set
need to educate the people on
up in all the SC habitations, she
the laws promulgated against
added.
mitting a memorandum to Governor E S L Narasimhan against
Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam
Srihari. He said the TDP leaders
had never questioned the caste of
Srihari when he was with the TDP.
However, they started vilifying
Srihari by making false allegation
after he was appointed as Deputy
Chief Minister.
The TDP leaders were pawn in
the game of power politics being
played Andhra leaders.
He dared the Telangana TDP
leaders to stage a protest demonstration in front of Andhra
Pradesh
Chief
Minister
N Chandrababu Naidu as he was
responsible for power crisis in
Telangana State.
Student
diagnosed
with swine flu
OUR BUREAU
Sircilla (Karimnagar): A student
by name Samad was diagnosed
with swine ﬂu in Gambhiraopet
mandal headquarters on Wednesday. Samad, who is studying in
Seventh Class, has been suffering
from cold, cough and fever for the
past one week. His parents
brought him to Area Hospital at
Sircilla.
Doctors testiﬁed that Samad
was affected with swine ﬂu after
conducting various tests. They
have forwarded blood samples of
Samad to a laboratory in Hyderabad. The laboratory officials have
also conﬁrmed that Samad had
contracted swine ﬂu.
Speaking to the press persons
here on Wednesday, Area Hospital Superintendent Dr G Ravindra
said that hospital staff were providing treatment to Samad in a
special ward. He informed people
not to get panic about swine ﬂu as
no person was admitted in the
hospital with swine ﬂu symptoms
so far except Samad.
Ravindra advised people to
wash hands frequently.
Owaisi demands quota for Muslims
Pune (IANS): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)
president Asaduddin Owaisi on
Wednesday made an impassioned
plea to the government to give
reservation to the Muslim community to enable it join the national
mainstream.
Addressing a massive rally in
Pune, the Lok Sabha member from
Hyderabad indirectly referred to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
statements offering Quran and laptops to Muslims during his election
rallies in Pune before the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls.
"Mr Prime Minister, the Holy
Quran we keep in our hearts, you
can keep the computers. Just give
us reservation and we shall make
ourselves capable in all respects,"
Owaisi urged, amidst thunderous
applause.
He said that in the past 15 years
of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party rule in Maharashtra,
the issue of reservation was not re-
solved and called upon the present
BJP Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to give quotas to Muslims
based on social representation.
"Why can't there be Muslim doctors, IAS, IPS officers? The community's population in Maharashtra is 11 percent or more than 12
million, but 70 percent live below
the poverty line. Not a single Muslim MP was elected from here in
the past few elections," he said, as
the crowds cheered him.
Owaisi said he was proud to be a
Muslim, to wear a cap, sport a
beard, and wear a 'sherwani' (a typical Muslim jacket) as the crowd
chanted "Sher aaya, bhai Sher
aaya" (Tiger has come...).
"We wear this ordinary 'sherwani', locally stitched, as we are a
poor community, unlike you Mr.
Prime Minister.
"We have no objections and wish
you have many more such specially
stitched jackets from London, but
Muslim youth are in a pathetic
Asaduddin Owaisi
condition, they need reservation,"
Owaisi said, in a reference to
Modi's wardrobe which became a
topic of discussion during US President Barack Obama's recent visit
to India. He said the Muslim community must be taken together in
the BJP's slogan of "Sabka Saath,
Sabka Vikas", and Modi should ensure equal development of the minority community.
Owaisi vowed to visit every corner of Maharashtra in favour of
reservation. Dismissing contentions that Muslims did not contribute to the Indian freedom
struggle, he said many people from
the community sacriﬁced their
lives for the country's independence.
He said independent India's ﬁrst
home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel was in favour of granting
reservation to Muslims not on religious grounds, but on social
grounds. Owaisi posed a direct
question to Modi, asking: "Mr.
Prime Minister, how did your
friend Amit Shah secure a clean
chit in the Sohrabuddin case so
quickly? Why innocent Muslim
youths languish for years in jail?
"Try them in fast track courts. If
there is no evidence against them,
they must be released. If they are
guilty, they must be punished."
Most roads leading to Kauserbaug Hall, which is actually an
open venue for weddings and other
functions, were jammed.
Warangal Range DIG B Malla Reddy inspecting a guard of
honour from police at Mahamutharam in Karimnagar district
on Wednesday. SP V Shiva Kumar is also seen.
DIG opens barracks
at Mahamutharam
Karimnagar: Warangal Range DIG B Malla Reddy inaugurated the
barracks at Mahamutharam police station on Wednesday. The barracks were constructed for the security personnel at a cost of Rs 48
lakh. Speaking on the occasion, the DIG said the state and central
forces can take rest at the barracks. He stated that Maoist-activities
had come down signiﬁcantly in the Mahamuttaram area. He said
that the Police Department was able to control Maoist activities effectively in the district. Malla Reddy said that the Police Department
would build residential quarters for police personnel, who are working in remote areas. District SP V Shiva Kumar, Officer on Special
Duty L Subbarayudu, the CRPF’s 58 Battalion Commandant Aravind
Kumar and other police officials were present.
VRO in ACB net
Karimnagar: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials
caught a Village Revenue Officer (VRO) S Ravinder redhanded on Wednesday at
Kurella village in Koheda mandal while accepting a bribe of
Rs 7000 from a farmer G Ravi
to change name in Pattadar
Passbook. According to ACB
DSP Sudershan Reddy, Ravi
has requested Ravinder on several occasions to replace his
name with that of his father in
Pattadar Passbook. The VRO
demanded Ravi to pay Rs
20,000 to get his work done.
Ravi approached the ACB officials and informed them about
VRO demanding bribe. On the
instructions of ACB officials,
Ravi told Ravinder that he was
willing to pay Rs 7000. Ravinder has agreed and asked Ravi
to hand over the money at the
house of a ration shop dealer
Malla Reddy at Kurella village.
ACB officials nabbed Ravinder
while accepting money from
Ravi. They seized the cash
from Ravinder. Sudarshan
Reddy informed the media that
the accused would be produced
in the ACB court at Hyderabad.
DRIVING FORCE
CONG MLC SEEKS ACTION
AGAINST TALASANI
OUR BUREAU
Nizamabad MP K Kavita launching TRS women’s membership campaign at Telangana Bhavan in
Hyderabad on Wednesday
Hyderabad: Congress MLC MS
Prabhakar has alleged that
Commercial Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav was acting
like ‘de facto Chief Minister’ of
Telangana.
Speaking to media persons on
the Assembly premises, Prabhakar alleged that Talasani had
been conducting review meetings with the officials of various
departments, which were not
part of his ministry.
He said Talasani had been
calling officials to his official
residence or chamber in the
Secretariat to hold review
meetings. Despite being Home
Minister, Naini Narasimha
Reddy never called any senior
police official to his residence.
But Talasani summoned City
Police Commissioner M Mahender Reddy to his residence
reportedly for a review meeting.
Talasani has been calling
officials to his official residence
or chamber in the Secretariat to
hold review meetings. Despite
being Home Minister, Naini
Narasimha Reddy never called
any senior police official to his
residence
Similarly, GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar and
other senior officials were being
summoned on regular basis for
the meetings with the Minister,
Prabhakar said.
He asked whether Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao delegated such powers to Talasani.
If not, then the Chief Minister
should take immediate action
against Talasani for violating
the constitutional norms. He
said Talasani had been serving
as a Minister without even acceptance of his resignation as
the TDP MLA.
Therefore, it was wrong to expect any moral behaviour from
him. He said that the Chief Minister should at least issue a clarification in this regard.

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