In a first-of-its-kind initiative,Telanganawill now launch Y-Hub in Hyderabad, exclusively for children and youth, on the lines of successful incubators T-Hub and We-Hub.
This will cater to the needs of students who do not want to stick to the popular career choices – medicine, engineering or law, and instead look to be entrepreneurs.
The framework of Y-Hub was launched few months ago and a statement of intent (SoI) was signed between and UNICEF India & YuWaah, an initiative of UNICEF.
The assembly budget sessions will begin on March 7 without the customary governor’s speech.
The government has also decided to present the state budget on the same day in both, the legislative assembly and the council.
Generally, the budget session begins with the customary governor’s address highlighting the government’s programmes, schemes and achievements.
The CM moves a motion the next day thanking the governor for the speech. During this motion, floor leaders of all the speak.
During the bifurcation process ofunited Andhra Pradesh(in 2013 and 2014), there was no governor’s speech. For that matter, assembly sessions were held without governor’s address in AP in 2020.
Hyderabad is among the 13 cities to witness5G(fifth generation) service rollout soon. Experts say telecom tower coverage and optic fiber connectivity may have made the city an ideal choice for the first phase launch. According to officials, telecom tower coverage in the city is one of the highest in the country, better than the national Average.
The fiberising of the base transceiver stations (BTSs) is also happening at greater speed in the country. In order to increase datacarrying capacity, India intends to connect up to eight lakh additional mobile towers via optical fiber over the next two years, more than doubling its current capacity.
Telecom service providers will fiberise their BT stations installed on mobile towers with 7,93,551 units connected by optical fiber in India. Nearly, 86,000 towers, a vast majority of them in Hyderabad, in have already been fiberised. The national average for fiberised BTS is 34%. Only a few states, includingTamil Naduand Telangana, have more than 36% of such towers.
The counsel explained that the committee needed to analyse suggestions to formulate a clear plan. The field survey gave authorities useful first-hand information on the current situation, the counsel said. The bench sought a report from the panel by September 22.
It may be recalled that assistant solicitor general (ASG) Namavarapu Rajeswara Rao had made a field visit to Golconda Fort and Qutub Shahi tombs earlier and had raised issue over the structures mushrooming in the forts proximity. As many as 153 complaints had been lodged by central archaeological authorities with the over illegal structures within a 100-metre-radius of the Golconda Fort.
UAE-based retail giantLulu Groupis all set to drive into with an Investment of over Rs 3,500 crore in setting up malls and Food Processing facilities over the next five years, chairmanYusuff Ali MAsaid.
The investments include Rs 2,500 crore in setting up a destination mall on the outskirts of Hyderabad that will generate around 12,000 jobs. The group also inked MoUs with theTelangana governmentfor these investments.
But first off the block will be its Rs 300 crore investment in rolling out the firstLulu mallandLulu Hypermarketin Hyderabad’s Kukatpally area where the group has taken over the 5 lakh square feet Manjeera mall.
The 2 lakh square feet Lulu Hypermarket will not just offer fresh produce and grocery but will also have fashion, Home appliances, electronics, mobiles, IT, and lifestyle products under the brand names Lulu Fashion Store and Lulu Connect.
The project, which is expected to generate EMPLOYMENT for over 2,500 people, is expected to commence commercial operations in the next 18 months.
The UAE-based group is also planning mini malls on the outskirts of Hyderabad and other major cities and towns in the state with an investment outlay of Rs 1,000 crore.
The Abu Dhabi-based $8 billion turnover Lulu Group operates over 250 hypermarkets and 24 shopping malls across 22 countries with a global headcount of over 65,000.
Thegovernment is considering hiking property registration charges by 20% to 50% for both agricultural and non-agricultural properties. If the cabinet approves the proposal, the revised charges will come into effect from February 1.
The proposal comes just six months after the State Government increased property values for registration of all properties. The registration and stamps (R&S) department, which is expected to get Rs 10,000 crore revenue in the current financial year, will get another Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 4,000 crore after the hiked charges come into effect.
Official sources said the government is focussing on the agricultural properties as land rates have gone up in the state since the formation of Telangana, especially after completion of various Irrigation projects.
After an earlier revision, the minimum value for agricultural land was fixed at Rs 75,000 per acre and the minimum value was fixed at Rs 1,000 per sq ft for flats. For open plots, the minimum rate was decided as Rs 200 per sq. yard. All the rates came into effect from July 22, 2021.
Thegovernment has raised objections to splitting Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) into two components instead of a single component in the gazette notification issued by the Union ministry of Resources“>Water Resources.
The State Government said in the notification it was mentioned that intake, tunnel, appurtenant structures (mean structures such as spillways) and Nakkalagandi reservoir as one component and additional 10 tmcft intake and appurtenant works as another component. Telangana engineer-in-chief (ENC) C Muralidhar said in the letter that the united AP government had enhanced the ayacut under SLBC from three lakh acres to four lakh acres but the quantum of water utilisation was not enhanced accordingly from 30 tmcft to 40 tmcft.
India recorded a five-fold increase in cyber crimes between 2018 and 2021. This year too has seen a sharp rise in cases of phishing, financial fraud, mail spam and ransomware attacks. Social engineering crimes, which form a major chunk of cyber crime, are the unfortunate fallout of the digitisation of all financial Services in the country.
The easy availability of SIM cards with fake documents, helps fraudsters use impersonated and anonymous credentials for fraud. Lack of effective physical verification and the large number of syndicates selling SIM cards, databases of citizens, mobile numbers, emails, credit and debit cards and shopping HISTORY landing in their lap are some crucial factors aiding fraudsters.
In , theTelangana Cyber Crime Coordination Centre(T4C), established in 2021, has a 24×7 call centre to help victims of cyber fraud and coordinate with district Police in the registration, investigation and detection of cyber crime cases. T4C has been successful in preventing almost 30 crore of public Money from being lost to cyber fraudsters.
Telanganahas added 22 lakh new voters in the last seven years. As on date, there are over three crore electors in compared to 2.81 crore when Elections were held to the assembly in April 2014.
And, the numbers of voters are expected to increase after the special summary revision of electoral rolls is completed and the final voters list is published in 2022. Though the latest Population census is yet to be conducted, it is estimated that the total population in Telangana has gone up to four crore from 3.50 crore in 2011.
As per the draft electoral rolls published earlier this month, Telangana has 3,03,56,665 electors of which 1,52,57,690 are males and 1,50,97,292 females.
Of the total voters in the state, there are 1,683 transgenders and 14,501 service voters. More importantly, there are over five lakh voters under the category of persons with disabilities (PWD).
A special summary revision (SSR) of the photo electoral rolls, 2022, was announced in Telangana from November 1, with January 1, 2022 as the qualifying date for enrolment, as per the instruction of theElection Commission of India(ECI). The final publication of electoral rolls would be on January 5, 2022.
TheTelangana State BC Commissionhas urged Prime MinisterNarendra Modito review the policies of the Centre on OBCs and take up a caste census without any delay.
Commission chairmanVakulabharanam KrishnaMohan Rao said in the letter that OBCs constitute more than 50% of the Population. The matter requires your (PMs) serious attention in taking up the caste census without any delay.
Many states assemblies, including , have adopted unanimous resolutions for caste census to be undertaken by the Centre and Bihar has earmarked 500 crore for the census but s no response from the Centre.