TELANGANA

TheTelanganaHeritage Department has signed anMoUwith Deccan Heritage Academy to conserve and document Mudumal Menhirs to pitch it for Unesco World Heritage list.

As per the MoU, the two organisations will work towards building a dossier for recognition of the ancient archaeological structure with astronomical significance. Previously Ramappa temple was recognised as a Unesco World Heritage site after painstaking efforts to prepare a detailed dossier about its significance.

There are many structures in that deserve Unesco recognition as they are testimony to states ancient HISTORY. Previously, historical archaeological structures in Telangana region were neglected

The governments plans to mobilise Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 15,000 crore by selling governmentlandappears to have gone awry for the second consecutive year. Though the government has identified some land parcels in the city and surrounding Rangareddy district to raise Money by auctioning the land, it could not go ahead thanks to the first wave of Covid-19 and now the second wave.

Senior officials are worried as the third wave of pandemic is likely to hit sometime in the third quarter of the year and land auctions may not be held this year too. Land auction was last conducted in December 2019 by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) was held in May 2017.

Child Labour in fields ofTelanganaand other states has become almost negligible.

After three years of consistent advocacy-cum-awareness campaigns for child labour elimination organised jointly by International Labour Organization’s (ILO) ‘Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Cotton Supply Chain’ Project and Telangana, results have shown that engagement of child labour in this supply chain has disappeared.

According to State Government officials, multiple reports have also indicated positive results about child labour not visible in the cotton fields.

Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan,Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Telangana are major cotton growing states and Telangana alone accounts for approximately 15% of the country’s total cotton growing area.

According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2018-19 data, there are primarily three types of workers/labour – own cultivation, family labour and casual labour (which accounts for majority of the state’s workforce at 46 per cent) – in cotton cultivation in Telangana.

Further more, the proportion of casual labour by Women under the age of 18 is higher than that of men. Women (children, adolescents and adults) account for a higher proportion of causal labour, while a majority of men work as owner cultivators, the PLFS data says.

A seven-day annual Brahmotsavams at Chilkur Balaji temple, popularly known as Visa Balaji temple began recently.

The temple is located on the banks of the century-old Osmansagar reservoir, about 25km from the Hyderabad city.

Amid the chanting of Vedic hymns, the temples main archakas and rithviks offered special prayers to Lord Balaji at the sanctum-sanctorum and then started Dhwajarohanam, the main ritual, which signals the beginning of the Brahmotsavams by hoisting the ‘Garuda’ flag atop the ‘dwajasthambam’ (flag mast).

In terms of of disposal rate ofRTIpleas,Telanganaranks 10th among states with 8,902 pleas pending with thestate Information Commission(SIC) as of June 2022, according to the Report Card of Information Commissions in India (RCICI) published by SatarkNagrik Sangathan(SNS) in December last year. Since August 2022, the SIC has been functioning without a chief commissioner.

Between July 2021 to June 2022, a total of 7,169 complaints and appeals were registered in and 9,267 were settled, including those pending from the previous years. The Average annual disposal rate per commissioner stands at 1,545, placing the state at 11th rank.

The state also lags when it comes to issuing showcase notices and imposing penalties on departments. The state recorded 52 cases where a penalty of 2 lakh was imposed, but gave compensation of 6,000 in only one case to the RTI applicant. The RCICI report also said that the SIC failed to publish even a single annual report since it was established in 2017.

Around 86% of the RTIs filed in the state are by social workers and journalists. But RTI activists said that over the years certain departments have stopped bothering to reply to queries.

One of the famous centuries-old hill shrine,Kondagattu Sri Anjaneya Swamytemple (popularly known as Anjanna) in Jagtial district in , will be renovated by theTelanganagovernment, on par with Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy shrine.

This is the second hill shrine that the State Government is developing by allocating its own funds.

For Yadadri, the Telangana government had spent 1,200 crore and now 100 crore has been sanctioned for Anjanna temple at Kondagattu.

Ahead of the Union Budget, which is to be presented on February 1, industries ministerKT Rama Rao has written nearly half a dozen letters to Union finance ministerNirmala Sitharamanseeking budgetary support of over 14,000 crore for key industrial projects set to come up in Telangana.

These include the projects like Hyderabad-Bengaluru, Hyderabad-Vijayawada, Hyderabad-Warangal andHyderabad-Nagpurindustrial corridors as well as theHyderabad Pharma Cityproject that has bagged the National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) status.
KTRhas urged the FM to sanction additional nodes at Mancherial (3,000 acres) under the Hyderabad-Nagpur corridor, Huzurabad as part of the Hyderabad-Vijayawada corridor and Jadcherla-Gadwal-Kothaguda node under the Hyderabad-Bengaluru corridor.
He has sought provision of 5,000 crore for these three nodes in the budget estimates for 2022-23, including 2,000 crore for Mancherial and 1,500 crore each for Huzurabad and Jadcherla-Gadwal-Kothaguda nodes.