TELANGANA

Telanganapolice are in the process of startingTelangana- Bureau(T-NAB) on the lines ofHyderabad-Narcotics Enforcement Wing(H-NEW) which has been operational for over a year.

T-NAB will have enforcement units across Telangana. Proposals for setting up this statewide unit have been sent to the administration and an official government order is expected to be issued soon.

T-NAB head office will be located in Hyderabad Police commissionerate and will have offices infour police commissionerates in Telangana. In some rural districts, special teams will be formed

GMR Group said that Amara Raja Batteries has inked a land lease agreement to set up an advanced energy research and innovation centre E-Hub at the GMR Aerospace & Industrial Park at AeroCity Hyderabad.

The E-Hub is being set up by Amara Raja group as part of its 9,500 crore giga corridor project and will also support start-ups through incubation, lab spaces and a collaborative ecosystem.

Amara Raja Batteries executive director Vikramadithya Gourineni said the unique facility, which would be open to all players, would hasten the development of viable technologies in the new energy space.

The Centre has asked AP andgovernments to submit reports regarding dues to power utilities. The Centre also directed the state governments to get comprehensive reports from key departments that were involved in disputes in order to resolve them.

A high-level committee headed by Union joint secretary in the Home ministry, Ashish Kumar, held the first meeting on resolution of disputes between the Telugu states on Thursday. AP special chief secretary (finance), S S Rawat, and Telangana special chief secretary (finance), K Ramakrishna Rao, attended the session held in virtual mode from New Delhi.

It is learnt that Telangana special chief secretary said that AP had to pay dues to Telangana. AP had also demanded the Centre to amend the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 to remove the anomalies in the tax division between both the states.

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said is a rich state, claiming that the state budget will soon touch 2.2 lakh crore. He said that when Telangana was formed in 2014, the state budget was just 62,000 crore.

he said when 33 districts were created, many had criticised his move. In neighbouring Chhattisgarh state, Bastar district was divided into six districts. When Rythu Bandhu scheme was launched, some people criticised it. We are helping 93% of farmers who own less than five acres of land. Only 1% owners got above 10 acres of land, the CM said.

KCR said even before Telanganas formation, he had said that Telangana would become the richest state.

To preserve Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), new godowns have been constructed across the state. While 20 have been completed, another two will be ready by month end. Once this is done, all districts would have separate godowns for storing EVMs.

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Shashank Goel held a video conference with collectors and issued instructions to shift EVMs to new godowns. He also said revised voters list must be ready by January 5, 2022. Applications for registration of new voters, online and offline, should be checked at booth level and additions/corrections must be done by December 20.

In another step towards making the voting process easier for visually impaired electors, voters guides will be made available inBraillefor the next general . Officials said that nearly 1.5 lakh visually impaired voters InTelanganawill be benefited through the new initiative.

Currently, visually challenged voters have voter ID cards in Braille script and at the voting booth, they are also provided with ballot papers in Braille. With the new initiative coming into force, they can read the guidelines before going to the polling booth without depending on others.

TheElection Commission of Indiaasked the states to print the guides in regional languages. In Telangana, the commissioner and director, Welfare Of Disabled, has translated the guidelines from Hindi toTeluguand soon the same will also be printed in Braille script.

TheTelanganagovernment has urged the Centre to provide funds, give concessions forindustrial promotionand release the pending arrears for backward districts.
industries and municipal administration minister KTRama Raoasked the Centre to release Rs 900 crore for backward districts financial assistance and provide concessions for industrial promotion under AP Reorganization Act, 2014. He said the 15th Finance Commission recommendations were not being implemented as far as Telangana is concerned.

The youngest state in the country, which is just 2.5% Population in the countrys population is contributing five per cent of countrys GDP. During the formation of the state, the GDP of the state was Rs 1.24 lakh crore, now it rose to Rs 2.37 lakh crore. When it comes to statesGSDProse to Rs 9.8 lakh crore now from Rs 5 lakh crore in 2014.

Archaeologists have found a fourth century stone plaque of Mahishasuramardhini of Vishnukundin period in Nalgonda district.

The miniature stone plaque of Mahishasuramardhini was reported from the outskirts of Panagal, a temple town in Nalgonda district. E Siva Nagi Reddy, archaeologist, along with D Suryakumar, a Nalgonda-based epigraphist and historian, examined the sculpture in detail.

The plaque was recovered by the farmers of Dandempalli village located on the Panagal-Kattangoor road at a distance of three km from Panagal. They found it some time back while digging a channel for agricultural purpose.