Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Farmer protests survey of land for SRSP project
Commotion prevailed at Kokkireni village in Tirumalayapalem mandal on Monday afternoon when a farmer allegedly climbed an electricity pole as a mark of protest against survey of his agricultural land for construction of a canal under SRSP Stage-II Project.
According to sources, Jepangi Chinni, a farmer of Kokkireni, allegedly tried to prevent the field staff of the executing agencies from conducting a survey of his agriculture land. He expressed resentment over the alleged injustice meted out to him in award of compensation.
emple development:Government advisor K.V. Ramana Chary offering prayers at Kaleshwara Muktheeshwara Swamy Devasthanam in Kaleshwaram on Monday
The State government is taking all measures to develop the ancient Sri Kaleshwara Muktheeshwara Swamy Devasthanam in Kaleshwaram of Mahadevpur mandal in Karimnagar district.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who visited the temple shrine on May 2, had announced to develop the shrine as international tourism centre and allocated Rs 25 crore.
Government advisor KV Ramana Chary visited the temple on Monday to review development works. Later, at a meeting with the Manthani legislator Putta Madhukar, endowments assistant commissioner D Rajeshwar, temple EO Hariprasad, tourism officials and others, Mr Chary said that they would develop the Mukteeshwara Swamy, Goddess Saraswathi and Yamakonam temples at the shrine.
He said they were chalking out strategies for construction of a pilgrim centre to provide accommodation to more pilgrims. They would construct special mandaps for the conduct of shraddha pujas along the banks of the Godavari and also widen the roads in the temple town. They had also designed plans to develop eco-tourism from Mahadevpur to the Kaleshwaram shrine.
Power utilities employees serve strike notice on State Government
The Telangana Electricity Trade Unions Front (TETUF) has served a strike notice on State Government.
The union leaders said in the notice that they would go on an indefinite strike from June 15 stating that the employees of power utilities were forced to take to agitation as their demands were not met by the State Government.
In the notice served by E. Sridhar, TETUF Convenor, it said that about 34 issues pertaining to employees and contract workers were brought to the notice of the State Government time and again, but they were not resolved forcing the employees to embark on an indefinite strike.
“We have waited for 10 months but in all in this period only two meetings were held without any positive outcome on any single issue,” said the TETUF in its notice.
The government schools have all necessary infrastructure and all facilities to transform the future generation the collector said
Collector Neetu Prasad on Monday asserted that government teachers were well qualified to train students as the best future citizens of the country.
Participating in the mass Aksharabhyasam programme for children taken up as part of the Badi Bata programme in Karimnagar, the Collector said that the best teachers were in the government sector. “The government schools have all necessary infrastructure and all facilities to transform the future generation,” she said and added that most of the private educational institutions do not have adequate facilities nor have qualified teachers.
She said the government teachers have also realised their responsibility for the survival of government schools and doing hard work to increase enrolment in the government sector. She also said that they were also providing English medium education in the government sector and said that 31 government school students have secured 10 GPA points in the SSC examination recently. She also announced release of Rs 4 crore from crucial balance funds for providing basic amenities such as toilets, drinking water and other facilities in government schools.
Mayor S Ravinder Singh said that several eminent personalities have studied only in government schools. Assuring to provide free drinking water connections to all government schools in Karimnagar town, he urged the authorities to increase more English medium schools for the benefit of students.
DEO S Srinivasa Chary said that they were taking all measures to provide English medium education from nursery to fifth standard in 991 schools in the district following the demand from parents. He said the government had assured to provide dual desks at all government schools. On this occasion, the dignitaries felicitated students who secured 10 GPA points in SSC examinations.
Thursday, 9 June 2016
Khammam: Minister for Roads and Buildings Tummala Nageswar Rao said that Khammam district would top the State in the road network if the ongoing road construction works are completed.
Laying the foundation stone for Rs 5.4 crore four-lane road construction works between Warangal Cross Road junction and Khammam on Wednesday the Minister said that a whopping Rs 25,000 crore would be spent in the next three years for improving road network in the State.
Efforts are on to make the district a role model in the construction of roads he said pointing out to the ongoing projects 100-km Vijayawada-Jagdalpur highway at an estimated cost of Rs 456 crore and 181-km Bhoopalpally road.
This apart, the Central government announced to develop Suryapeta-Khammam-Aswaraopet, Khammam-Warangal and Sarapaka-Etur, Nagaram-Koutala (Adilabad) as highways, the Minister said.
Tummala also laid foundation stone for the construction of CC roads in Pedda tanda under Khammam rural mandal. Later, the Minister consoled the family members of TRS activist Sangu Sathaiah who died in a clash on June 2.
Zilla Parishad chairperson G Kavitha, Mayor Dr G Papalal, DCCB chairman Muvva Vijay Babu and TRS district president Beig were present.
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