TELANGANA

All gold jewellery will need a new security check of a six-digit alphanumeric code from April 1. The norm is being rolled out by the Bureau of Indian Standards (Bis) across India to make buying of gold jewellery, and artefacts that fall under the hallmarking system, a safer process.
InTelangana, it will apply to gold traders in eight districts: Hyderabad,Ranga Reddy, Mancherial, Peddapalli, Warangal Rural,Warangal Urban, Khammam, andNalgonda.

The has announced a new Health policy titled `Integrated Hospital Facility Management Services for improving patient care services in government hospitals.

The new policy replacing the existing policy envisaged improvement of services in government hospitals, Nursing colleges & nursing schools (including hostels) in the State with an amount of 7,500 per bed per month.

The reckonable bed strength would be taken as basis rather than sanctioned bed strength as per the actual occupancy of last year or 50 per cent whichever was higher. The policy of providing manpower at the rate of one person for 7,000 SFT built up area and one person per 27,000 SFT for open area which was currently applicable to medical colleges had also been extended to nursing colleges and hostels.

has seen a significant reduction in maternal mortality rate (MMR) in recent years. As per the recently released Sample Registration System (SRS) Special Bulletin 2018-20, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the state has dropped to 43 points from 56 points in 2017-19 reducing by 13 points.

Telangana stood at the third position in the country with the lowest number of deaths, after Kerala and Maharashtra. MMR is calculated as the number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births.

The national Average MMR stands at 97, almost double of Telangana. MMR was 92 at the time of the formation of the state and has reduced by 53 points since then. The State Government has ascribed the decrease to measures in child and maternal care taken by the government.

The national average has come down to 97 from 130 in 2014, a decrease of only 33 points. The top three states with the highest maternal mortality are Assam at 195, Madhya Pradesh at 173 and Uttar Pradesh at 167. Between 2017-19 and 2018-20, the MMR steadily increased in the respective states.

Thegovernment has introduced an online affiliation process for the academic year 2022-23 for all technical institutions. A new portal has been launched by thedepartment of technical Education.

The university online affiliation portal has the provision for colleges to upload data and documents and seek affiliation, approvals by the respective universities, heads of the departments and government.

For the ensuing academic year, thetechnical education departmenthas instructed all university registrars to ensure that colleges seeking affiliations register on the new portal.

Comparative figures of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of before and after formation depict a dramatic Growth where the state rapidly added 6.7 lakh crore worth GSDP in the last eight years (from 2014-15 to 2020-21).

In contrast, only 2.67 lakh crore worth GSDP was accumulated in the eight years preceding the formation of the state (from 2006-07 to 2013-14). Statistics of Telangana districts in combined Andhra Pradesh revealed, for the first time, that the state had GSDP worth 1.26 lakh crore in 2006-07 which escalated to 3.91 lakh in 2013-14 (the fiscal year before formation).

In a Parliament reply, it was said that Telangana (in 2021-22) possesses 11 lakh crore worth GSDP, progressing from 4.30 lakh crore worth of GSDP from the year of formation (2014-15).

The figures are intriguing given that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao during his recent public meeting in Mahbubnagar claimed that Telangana had lost 3 lakh crore GSDP in the last eight years due to the inefficiency of the central government. According to him, the state would have attained 14 lakh crore GSDP had the Centre chipped in.

Telanganas GSDP growth rate was projected at 10.88% in the last fiscal year (2021-22), the second highest, after 2014. Post formation, Telangana had the highest GSDP growth rate in the 2015-16 fiscal year at 11.58%, a massive push from the initial GSDP growth rate of just 6.76% in 2014-15.

The plan is to achieve this with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.5% as against the actual GSDP growth rate of Gujarat at 12.3% in the last decade.

The state is close to administering four croredosesof the Covid-19vaccineover the next 24 hours with 3,99,21,813 doses given till Wednesday. had administered one crore doses within 165 days after the state-wide vaccination drive began on January 16 this year.

Since then, the state has seen an increase in vaccine stock availability and greater efforts by authorities to administer doses to the eligible Population. As a result, the state reached the milestone of two crore doses within 78 days of reaching the one-crore-mark. The next one crore doses were administered within 27 days as Telangana reached the three-crore-mark on October 23.
However, after reaching the three-crore-mark, the pace of vaccine administration has slowed down slightly. Some experts believe that the pace has slackened as many have become relaxed over the urgency to get vaccinated following the end of the second wave. As a result, the gap between reaching three crore doses and four crore days will be around 45 days.

In yet another step to boost urea production and reduce dependence on import of chemical fertilisers to meet domestic requirement,PM Narendra Modiwill inaugurate a fertiliser plant at Ramagundam.

Recently, the production at two major urea Plants atSindriinJharkhandand Barauni in Bihar resumed after decades.

The government notified the New Urea Policy 2015 for existing 25 gas-based urea units with the aim of maximising indigenous urea production; promoting Energy Efficiency in urea production; and rationalising subsidy burden on government.

The University of Hyderabad (UoH) remains among the top institutions in QS Asia Rankings 2022 released recently. Of the 687 higher Education institutions ranked, UoH is at 156 and is within the top 22% in Asia. It is 12th among all Indian institutions.
Similarly, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) is ranked 224. It is ranked 15th among all Indian institutions. ICFAI, Hyderabad, and Kakatiya University, Warangal, are ranked 651+.

QS World University Rankings is a publication of University Rankings, published annually by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

The institutions are ranked on parameters such as academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, staff with PhD, citations per paper, papers per faculty, international research Network, international faculty, international students, inbound and outbound exchange students.

At a below par score of 43/100,Telanganahas a lot left to do in terms of efforts to mitigate unfavourable climatic changes, according to a recentNiti Aayogstudy. has been put along side nine other states who have been found wanting in taking proactive measures to combat the challenge from adverse Climate events.

The scores are assigned based on a variety of criteria, including minimisingCO2emissions, effective Disaster Management systems, preparing the state to use RENEWABLE ENERGY sources and regulating Air Pollution. The NITI Aayog report on Sustainable Development Goals (Climate Action) was released this year on the values for 2020.
The nine other states with a score below 50 areRajasthan, Goa, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar bringing up the rear with a lowly score of 16.