TELANGANA

Government has issued a revised guidelines for curbing Child Labour menace, in line with the rules formulated by Centre.

State Government seeks to take strict action against those who employ or force children below 14 years to work.

As per revised norms, if anyone attempts to employ children aged below 14 years, he or she will be punished with a jail term of six months to one year.

They would also be charged with a fine of Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000.

Task Force Committee

Labour Department will also constitute a task force committee headed by District Collector concerned, to effectively monitor and curb the child labour menace.

Can children work in movies or serials?

As per revised guidelines, film director will require to obtain permission from the Collector concerned in order to rope in children in movies or serials.

The children will be allowed to work only for five hours, with one break after three hours.

Crew members are required to ensure childs safety during the shooting.

Furthermore, child will be permitted to attend shooting up to 27 days only.

In case, more than five children are taking part in shooting, a person has to be appointed for supervision.

Twenty-five per cent of the remuneration of the child has to be fixed deposited in the bank. This amount will be given to the child after he or she becomes major.

Provisions for parents

If parents force children to work, they will also face action. Parents can take assistance from their children, but it must not affect their Education.

Guidelines further states that, children should not be used in dangerous works, retail chain and manufacturing sector.

Guideline for School Principal

If any child fails to attend school for 30 days, without permission, school principal will require to bring it to the notice of concerned nodal officer.

has become the tenth state to withdraw general Consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Its twomonth-old order was cited in court in the wake of the cashfor-MLA scandal in which BJP is demanding an investigation by the central agency.

In November 2018, then Andhra Pradesh chief ministerN Chandrababu Naidutook back the states general consent to CBI. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee andMeghalayachief minister Conrad Sangma too have withdrawn consent to the investigating agency.

Pochampallyvillage in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, known for its famous hand-woven Ikat saris, was on Tuesday selected as one of the best tourism villages by theUnited Nations World Tourism Organisation(UNWTO).

The best tourism villages by UNWTO pilot initiative aims to award those villages which are outstanding examples of rural destinations and showcases good practices in line with its specified evaluation areas. It also aims to support villages to enhance their rural tourism potential through training and access to opportunities for improvement.
Theministry of tourismhad recommended three villages for the award — Kongthong in Meghalaya, Ladhpura Khas in Madhya Pradesh and Pochampally in .

As usual,GSTcollections accounted for the lions share of tax receipts (Rs 28,591 crore), followed by sales tax (Rs 8,218 crore) and excise (Rs 4,791 crore). The states portion of Union taxes was Rs 2,178 crore compared to a projected Rs 8,721 crore. GST collection has reached 25% of total budget estimates against 18% in July last year.

Similarly, sales tax receipts reached 31% of estimated budget figures for the same period against 16% last year. This year the total tax receipts till July was 19% when compared to 16% last year.

Non-tax revenue was Rs 1,925 crore as opposed to Rs 30,557 crore last year.
The state governments tax and non-tax income remain a major source of concern at a time when it is attempting to stabilise its financial position in the aftermath of the pandemic-induced downturn. The state has accumulated a of Rs 9,483 crore till July.

In Karnataka, 31,31,098 children do not have access to digital devices, while Bihar has the highest number of children (1,43,36,007) without access to digital devices.
The survey in West Bengal is still underway and countrys largest state Uttar Pradesh, does not have any data.

On the flip side, has a concern as the dropout rate in the upper primary level (9-10th classes) among the boys is high, at 14 % in 2019-20. However, only 10% of girls dropped out of school the same year.

TheTelanganahigh court on Thursday came down heavily on the for its decision to hand over parcels of precious land in Khanamet near Hi-Tec city in Hyderabad to two caste groups, Kammas and Velamas, to build community bhavans.

The land is worth more than 1,000 crore and let them buy it at market rate as they are rich enough to purchase it in line with the states land allotment policy, he said appearing for the petitioner.

Objecting to the states action, the bench said that the government can give incentive for intercaste marriages as that would be in accordance with the goals of the Constitution, but promoting casteism would only further segregate Society.

After deciding to auction unutilised government land, the is mulling to increase land values for property registrations. After GST and excise, revenue earned through property registrations is the third highest source of revenue for the government.

Sources said the revised land market values will come into force from August 1 this year if chief ministerK Chandrasekhar Raookays the proposal. Theregistrationand stamps (R&S) department has kept the proposals ready, sources said. Our department is aiming to achieve Rs 12,500 crore this financial year (2021-22) after revising the land values.

The government has plans to enhance market land values for non-Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture properties between 30% and 50%. While the enhancement will be 30% in the rural areas, it will be 50% in Greater Hyderabad and other Municipal Corporation areas. For agricultural properties, the hike in the values would be about 20% on the existing rates.

Though the government has powers to revise market values every year under the Indian Stamp Act, land values have not been revised after formation ofTelangana. The last revision was done in August 2013 when the state was united.

In the last year 2020-21, the government had given a target of Rs 8,000 crore collections to the registration department, but it had earned Rs 5,260 crore through 12.11 lakh documents registrations, which was Rs 1,800 crore less than the 2019-20 revenue. The property registrations had to be stopped for three months as the government decided to have agricultural properties registration through tahsildars and non-agricultural properties through sub-registrar offices in September last year.

Telanganahas the highest Growth rate forpaddy outputvalue over a decade (2011-12 to 2021-22) in the country at 99%, as per central government report.

According to figures released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, the output value of paddy has increased from 8,291 crore in 2011-12 to 16,533 crore in 2021-22. At the same time, the state had to lose 46% of the value of vegetables and crops.

In the last 10 years, no other state has experienced this level of growth or outperformance of any other commodity. Punjab, the country’s leading producer of paddy, saw only a 28% increase. During this period, the value of paddy output in Punjab increased from 17,565 crore to 22,544 crore.

The Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed (Sutra)mathematical modelfor tracking the trajectory ofCovid-19infection has predicted that will peak around May 12, reaching a daily case mark of around 9,000 to 9,500cases. As per the model, the state will start seeing a flattening of thecurvefrom around June 21 while the peak will continue from around May 12 to May 20.

The team of professors from IIT Kanpur and Hyderabad have made these predictions as per the revised estimated for states in the past few days. Interestingly, Telangana has already touched the 10,000 daily cases mark 10,122 last Monday which was the highest single-day surge since the pandemic outbreak. The number was higher than the predicted peak for Telangana.

Telanganahas ranked sixth in terms of filing of patent applications in the country after Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab for the year 2021-22. In terms of design, the state stood 13th and ninth in terms of trademark filings in the country, as per the latest annual IP report.

The report has been released by the office of the controller general of patents, designs, trademarks and Geographical Indications, which falls under the department for promotion of Industry & internal trade (DPIIT) of the Union ministry of commerce & industry.

Pointing out that Telangana has slipped from the list of top five states, Subhojit Saha, head oflegal& IPR, Resolute group of companies, said though the state has been doing phenomenally well in investments and innovations, there is a need to see how these can generate from IP from the state.