British-era post offices that have been revamped with latest technology are also adopting alternative energy sources to ensure uninterrupted Services to lakhs of customers across .
Officials say that the shift to solar power will be implemented in over 6,000 post offices, in a phased manner. The postal departments target is to run all post offices in Telangana on solar power by the end of 2023, a senior official said.
Amid fears of a global ,Telanganalogged in its highest ever IT exports, registering a Growth of 31.4% in 2022-23. The ‘start-up state’, as Telangana is often called, has far outstripped the 9.36% national IT exports growth rate.
The youngest state’s IT exports grew to Rs 2.41 lakh crore in the financial year 2023, from Rs 1.83 lakh crore in 2021-22, a Rs 57,706 crore jump.
Telangana’s achievement can be gauged from the fact its IT exports growth this year is higher than the state’s entire IT exports in 2014.
And at a time when the tech sector globally is grappling with layoffs, Telangana added as many as 1.27 lakh new IT jobs in 2023 to take the total number of direct IT jobs in the state to more than 9.05 lakh, witnessing a 16.29% growth. The sector employed more than 3.23 lakh people in 2014 in the state.
With this, Telangana’s share of the net new EMPLOYMENT in India’s IT sector, which added an estimated 2.9 lakh jobs, rose to 44% in FY23 from 33% in FY22.
Terming the FY23 IT exports growth as “explosive” and the brightest feather in the state’s cap,KTRsaid it proves that Telangana has arrived as the top global IT/ITeS destination.
To find solutions for problems and also for the integrated development of surrounding areas of Hyderabad, including Medchal-Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts, which are rapidly developing, CMK Chandrashekhar Rao has decided to constitute anodal agencyheaded bychief secretary Somesh Kumar.
The agency will oversee works that provide a permanent solution to issues such as traffic, submerging of areas under flood water among other things. The agency will take up developmental works in all assembly constituencies, municipalities and other important towns in two districts. These works include developing Infrastructure such as power, drinking water, cleanliness, repairing of sewerage and drainage, and construction of integrated vegetable and meat markets, town halls and laying of roads. TheCMinstructed chief secretary to hold meetings with the ministers, MLAs, MLCs and officials of departments.
Rising has forced a relook into Micro Economics of states, particularly Telangana that clocked the highest rural inflation. Radhika Pandey, consultant economist with National Institute of PUBLIC FINANCE and Policy (Delhi), says though the current economic scenario is not alarming, inflation rates in states differ due to varied reasons.
For stability, a bandwidth of a 2-6% inflation rate is good. This, however, varies with time for many reasons. Indias inflation rate is influenced by fuel prices. Inflation is understood as a consistent spurt in prices and the poor cannot afford a price rise, so its critical to keep inflation levels within the desired ban dwidth. Going by GST collections and GDP figures, India is relatively safe. Also, we are not an export-driven economy and inflation rates were brought down between February and March.
As per data, Telanganas vegetable inflation in rural areas between April and October is very high, hovering around 20%. In the same p eriod, the corresponding figure (rural vegetable inflation) for the country was just 6%. Agriculturists say price benefits not being passed on to consumers or cultivation not meeting demand.
Shiva Shankar Master, a National Award-Winning Choreographer, died on 28 November.
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The distinguished National Award-winning choreographer and actor Shiva Shankar Master passed away in Hyderabad, .
He was born on 7 December 1948 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
He was an Indian dance choreographer, accomplished in South Indian movies and received the National Award for ‘Best Choreographer’ for ‘Magadheera’.
A talented artist, Shiva Shankar, who tutored under veteran choreographer Salim, worked in nearly 30 films requested by a few directors.
Inc was in for a pleasant surprise evening after a proactiveUnionminister of commerce and Industry, PiyushGoyalcalled up Union Environment ministerBhupender Yadavduring an interactive industry session here to apprise him of a niggling issue facing the plastics industry.
Goyal also got the representative of the Telangana & Andhra Pradesh Plastics Manufacturers’ Association an appointment with his cabinet colleague for next week much to the delight of industry captains gathered at the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FTCCI) for the session.
Goyal also told Indian manufacturers to stick to world class quality in response to a request from a member of the steel industry who urged the minister to look into allowing higher Percentage of phosphorus content in steel as the industry was dependent on lower grade iron Ore coming from Bellary.
TheTelanganagovernment on Monday asked theKrishna River Management Board(KRMB) to retainRajolibanda Diversion Schemeon Tungabhadra underKRMBs jurisdiction by incorporating the project under schedule-2 and complete modernisation of canalanicutat the earliest.
The RDS project was taken by the erstwhile Hyderabad state in terms of June, 1944 agreement between Hyderabad and Madras state to utilize Tungabhadra waters on par with KC canal. The length of the anicut is 819 mtrs and geographically half of the anicut is in AP and half of the anicut in Raichur of Karnataka. The project irrigates 5,879 acres in Karnataka and 87,500 acres in with an allocation of 17. 10 tmcft by KWDT-1,
Major portion of canal modernisation was completed but modernisation of anicut is being obstructed by AP government in the name of law and order problem. The Communication was sent by AP to Karnataka officials not to proceed with the works, which is unwarranted.
After raising its objections over Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (RLIS) and Veligonda projects of Andhra Pradesh, theTelanganagovernment dashed off another letter toKrishna River Management Board(KRMB), this time on Handri Neeva Sujala Sravanthi (HNSS).
The government asked the KRMB to stop AP from diverting Krishna water outside the basin till the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II (Brijesh Kumar tribunal) finalizes the Shares of water and also stop the construction activity taken up in violation ofAP Reorganization Act, 2014.
TheENCsaid it is known to all that Krishna is a deficit basin and diverting water from it to outside the basin, basin areas adjacent to the river, suffer from severe scarcity of water. It is highly objectionable and does not stand to any logic or principles.
Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led state cabinet meeting on Sunday constituted a cabinet sub-committee to collect details and assess problems being faced by such orphans as well as orphanages inTelangana. Women and child welfare minister Satyavathi Rathod will head the cabinet sub-committee comprising 10 other ministers including T Harish Rao, KT Rama Rao, Sabitha Indra Reddy, V Srinivas Goud, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Koppula Eshwar, Gangula Kamalakar, Indrakaran Reddy, G Jagadish Reddy and Errabelli Dayakar Rao.
The cabinet directed the medical and Health secretary to get comprehensive information on affected children. All collectors have been told to submit details of orphans and orphanages from their respective districts to the medical and health secretary.
The cabinet directed officials to increase the number of tests to identify coronavirus patients, intensify vaccination drive, improve medical , medicine supplies and ensure there was no shortage of Oxygen facilities in hospitals in all the districts.
The GMR Hyderabad International Airport announced its transition to 100% green energy. Hyderabad airport, in PARTNERSHIP withTelanganaState Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) will harness the power of green energy through a combination of its own 10 MWp (megawatt peak) solar power plant and green energy supplied by TSSPDCL. Through the initiative, the airport will reduce its carbon dioxide footprint by 9,300 tonnes annually.