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T-Hub Kicks Off Innovate Tgana

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

As part of theTelanganagovernments efforts to foster in the remote corners of the state, state-led incubator T-Hub has kicked off Innovate Telangana with an eye on discovering and accelerating promising startups from the state.

The initiative was launched formally on Thursday by IT & industries minister KT Rama Rao at the second edition of the T-Innovation Summit, held on the theme Gladiators of the mind to mark the first anniversary of T-Hub 2.0, the worlds largest innovation hub.

Innovate Telangana will scour all 33 districts of the state over a period of 120 days

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for promising startups that will pitch their ideas at five pitching clusters Sircilla, Nirmal, Warangal, Medchal and Gadwal.

Gujarat, Karnataka lead ’21 startup ranking, Telangana in ‘top performer’ club

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Telanganamoved up thestartup rankingsto emerge as a’top performer’in the latest ranking of states and Union territories released by the central government’s Department for Promotion of and Internal Trade (DPIIT).

However, Gujarat, Karnataka and Meghalaya were judged ‘best performers’ ahead of Telangana in developing startup Ecosystems for entrepreneurs in 2021.

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Telangana company in the ‘top performer’ category in the 2021 rankings were Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Jammu & Kashmir.

Telangana govt to spend Rs 1,200 crore to beef up waterlines to new colonies

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

With several hundreds of new colonies coming up on the outskirts of Hyderabad, especially in new municipal corporations, municipalities and villages located between the outer ring road (ORR) and the GHMC limits, the state cabinet on Tuesday allocated Rs 1,200 crore for augmenting water supply Network to these new colonies.

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply

and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will lay 2,000 km pipelines and construct nearly 100 small reservoirs for supplying drinking water to these colonies.

Official sources said the HMWS&SB had already completed works on the drinking water network at a cost of Rs 700 crore in phase I.

3 startups bag 1st edition of AI for social good awards

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

TheTelangana AI Mission(T-AIM) announced the winners of the inauguralAI for Social Good Awards. It also launched a compendium of 15 success stories of social sector innovation using called From Code to Compassion.

The awards, which were given away to AI startups in three categories Health & sanitation, Skill development & livelihoods, and sustainable Environment received 128 nominations.

The winning startups bagged a

seed funding of 7 lakh each to scale up their innovations. Dharwad-based Sparcolife Digital Health Technologies emerged winner in the health and sanitation category for benefiting over 350 Women with their solution for womens well-being, reproductive health and fertility care.

In the skill development and livelihoods category Ahmedabad-based startup Learn & Empower,

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which helped over 1,200 hearing impaired children in 67 schools across seven states improve learnability of through fun-based interactive games, was adjudged winner.

Union tourism and culture ministerG Kishan Reddyon Sunday slammed chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for criticizing Prime MinisterNarendra Modiat public meetings in Maharashtra.

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The BRS governments Rythu Bandhu benefits farmers to the tune of 10,000 per acre, while the Centres fertiliser subsidy is 18,254 per acre, he added.

The BRS government should tell why the state did not deliver the quota of fortified rice that was agreed upon between the Centre andTelanganafor the 2020-21 season until now, he said, questioning thepinkparty

for criticism of the Centre for not procuring rice. They should stop levelling allegations against Centre.

Shops & restaurants can remain open 24×7 in Telangana

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Catapulting Hyderabad into the league of country’s few metropolitan cities such as Mumbai, the has come out with fresh guidelines allowing shops, restaurants and other establishments to stay open 24×7 acrossTelangana.

The government has modified opening and closing

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hour rules to make the shift to 24X7 functioning of restaurants and other establishments.

The Telangana government, hereby, issues guidelines for granting exemption from section 7 (opening and closing hours) of theTelangana Shops and Establishments Act, 1988, to all shops and establishments as defined in section 2(21) for operating 24×7 in the state.”
Hailing the government move, traders, restaurant owners and retailers in the city said this would help them to do business and cater to customers 24×7.

Telangana: Budget schools want Rs 20,000 for each student

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Almost a year after physical classes gave way to virtual classes, private budget school managements are demanding that the government give Rs 20, 000 to each child for procuring devices and Internet connection.

TRSMA, which has launched Save Education Campaign (Save Students – Save Teachers) on Tuesday, said that it will be adopting a three-way approachprotest,

legal, and lobbying to ensure that students and teachers get much-needed help. They asked the state to release the assessment schedule, evaluate Learning outcomes for the year 2020-21.

Dalit Bandhu Scheme

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Dalit Bandhu is the governments flagship programme. It is a welfare scheme for empowering Dalit families of the state and enabling Entrepreneurship among them through a Rs 10 lakh direct benefit transfer per family.

The Telangana government in its state budget allocated Rs 17,700 crore for the Dalit Bandhu scheme for the year 2022-23.

This scheme was announced by the State Government in 2021.

In August 2021 this scheme was first launched in Vasalamarri village in Turkapally mandal, and later it was launched in the Huzurabad assembly constituency.

This scheme will be implemented in Huzurabad Assembly segment as well as four more mandals which are Tirumalagiri, Chintakani, Charagonda, and Nizamsagar along with 118 assembly constituencies.

The scheme will be available to 11,800 beneficiaries, with 100 people from each of the 118 assembly constituencies.

The government expects to transfer cash to around 40,000 families under the scheme through Direct Benefit Transfer by the end of March this year, at a cost of Rs 4,000 crore. By next year, the government wants to provide benefits to two lakh beneficiaries.

Telangana a role model in welfare for disabled: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the was making every effort to help disabled people.

He said Telangana has set set an example for the entire country in the welfare of the disabled.

Greeting the specially abled on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, he said the government created department for Welfare Of Disabled as an independent and special

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wing from the Women and child welfare department.

The CM said the government is providing 3,016 monthly pension to every disabled person in every family.When AP was a combined state, they were getting only 500 pension, he recalled..

When AP was a combined state, they were getting only 500 pension, he recalled.

Telangana-AIM invitation for AI startups

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The AI Mission(T-AIM) has invited applications from early stage startups, working in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space, from across the country for the second cohort of its Revv Up startup acceleration programme.

As many as 42 startups were selected in August 2021 for the first cohort

of the Revv Up programme, which has been launched by theTelanganagovernment in PARTNERSHIP with apex IT Industry bodyNasscomto boost AI innovation. The accelerator is primarily aimed at providing exclusive opportunities forAI startupsto solve societal and business problems through partnerships with government and industry.

Selected startups will not only be mentored by industry experts but will also get technology and IP support to build scalable businesses with AI-based offering at their core.

According to T-AIM, over 20 startups from the first cohort have started to explore the North American market with the help of T-AIMs partner organisation.
While six startups are exploring the Central European market through digital delegations and virtual booths enabled by the programme.