TELANGANA
HYDERABAD TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2015
SNIPPETS
4-year-old
killed in road
accident
Shadnagar
(Mahabubnagar): A fouryear-old girl was killed and
five others were injured when
an auto trolley in which they
were travelling fell into a culvert on the national highway
near Lingareddy Guda in Farooq Nagar mandal on Monday.Auto driver lost control
over the vehicle when he
wanted to avoid collision with
a two-wheeler coming in the
opposite direction. One of the
injured persons was stated to
be in a serious condition.
Nominal changes in ECET syllabus
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: There will be nominal changes in the syllabus for the
Telangana Engineering Common
Entrance Test (ECET) 2015.
Addressing newspersons here
on Monday, ECET convener, Prof
Yadaiah informed that a few topics would be added in the examination. However, the pattern of
examination would remain the
same. “Nominal changes have
been approved by the CET
Committee and syllabus will be
made available on the website
soon,” he said.
Notiﬁcation for the test will be
CPM State meet
poster released
Nizamabad: CPM district
secretary Dandi Venkat called
upon people to make its first
state conference, scheduled to
be held in Hyderabad from
March 1 to 4 a grand success.Speaking to the media
here on Monday, Venkat appealed to people to send one
person from each family for
the state-level convention and
contribute for its success. Earlier, the CPM leaders released
a poster of the State-level
conference.
MPPs trained
in computer
basics
Karimnagar: Coaching for
Mandal Parishad Presidents
(MPPs) in computer basics
was launched at Tower Circle
here on Monday. Zilla
Parishad Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Suraj Kumar said
the computer coaching for
MPP's would be continue till
February 28.
All the MPPs in the district
were asked to utilise the opportunity. The coaching
would be given in the Visma
Infotech Services and VLC
Computer Education at
Kaman near Tower circle.The
MPPs, who would attend
classes, would be given travelling allowance, said ZP
CEO.
One killed in
road mishap
Karimnagar: A motorcycleborne 50-year old man was
killed in a road accident on
the outskirts of Alganur village of Thimmapur mandal
here in Karimnagar district
when a lorry hit coming from
behind hit him.
According to police, Ram
Lakhan, native of Shivapur
village of Kandi mandal in
Jharkhand and working as a
supervisor in Padmavathi
quarry of Thimmapur after
completing his work was
going to Karimnagar on a two
wheeler.
A lorry coming from Warangal near the Durgamma temple hit him from back. He
died on the spot.
The Assistant Sub-Inspector
of Police (ASI) Mukanda
Reddy registered the case and
began investigation. Police
sent the body to the government hospital for postmortem.
n Notification to be released on Feb 28
n Online registrations from March 6
n Last date to apply is April 15
n Exam on May 21, results on May 31
released on February 28 and
online registration will begin
from March 6. The examination
will be held on May 21 from 10 am
to 1 pm and results will be declared on May 31.
This year, about 20,000 to
25,000 students are expected to
take the examination. Currently,
there are 33,991 seats available in
281 colleges in the State, said
Telangana State Council of
Higher Education Chairman Prof
T Papi Reddy. The last date to
submit online application without ﬁne is April 15 and with a late
fee of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 is April
25 and May 2 respectively. Candidates can also apply in tatkal
scheme with a fee of Rs 5,000 and
SEEKING MANDATE
Debts drive
farmer to
suicide
Mahabubnagar: A farmer,
Subhash, committed suicide
by consuming pesticide-laced
water in his agriculture field
near Mallapur village of
Kothur mandal on Sunday
night. He took the extreme
step as he was under intense
pressure to clear his
debts.Subhash, a native of
Mallapur village, had cultivated two acres of land.
He left for his farm on Sunday night but did not return
home. When family members
went in search of him on
Monday morning, Subhash
was found dead.
He left a suicide note stating
that he was committing suicide by consuming pesticidelaced water. The farmer is
survived by wife and two
sons.
5
Rs 10,000 till May 9 and May 15
respectively. Students can apply
by paying Rs 300.
Candidates would be given a
chance to make modiﬁcations to
already ﬁlled-in form between
April 20 and 25. Students can
download their hall tickets between May 15 and 19.
In the wake of formation of the
new State of Telangana, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Hyderabad has been entrusted to hold the examination
by Telangana government.
Earlier for three consecutive
years JNTU-Kakinada conducted
the examination for 23 districts
in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. This
year, JNTU-H has increased the
number of test centres to eight
against four last year. Two in Hyderabad, one each in Karimnagar,
Khammam, Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Mahaboobnagar and Warangal are being arranged.
“Depending on the number of
applicants from Adilabad district,
we will think whether to have a
test centre or not,” Papi Reddy informed. Reddy said Andhra
Pradesh students would be given
admissions as per Article 371 (D).
“AP students will be given admissions in the 15 per cent open
quota,” Reddy added.
Satavahana varsity to
have semester system
for degree courses
n Likely to be introduced for B.Com
courses in the coming academic year
n The Council of Higher Education
designs common core syllabus
OUR BUREAU
BJP candidate N Ramchander Rao submitting nomination for MLC elections to Hyderabad, Ranga
Reddy and Mahabubnagar Graduate Constituency to Navin Mittal, Returning Officer & Special
Commissioner, GHMC, in Hyderabad on Monday
Swine flu continues
to haunt people
Rise in cases despite increase in day temperature
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: Swine ﬂu cases continue to be reported in Telangana State with 56 more people
testing positive, officials said
Monday. As many as 181 samples
were screened for H1N1 virus till
Sunday and out of them, as many
as 56 were found positive - the
highest number of positive cases
during last six days.
Officials said no death due to
swine ﬂu was reported during
last two days but some reports
said a 26-year-old woman succumbed at Gandhi Hospital here
Sunday. According to the Health
Department, the toll remains at
51. According to a bulletin by the
Health Department, as many as
4,040 samples were tested since
January 1 and out of them 1,316
were found positive. The health
authorities had earlier attributed large number of swine ﬂu
cases to cold wave conditions.
The number was expected to
come down with the rise in day
temperature. However, they
were surprised over the continued high number of cases being
reported every day despite increase in the temperature.
Contract
workers seek
regularisation
Adilabad: Employees and workers
of Adilabad municipality under the
banner of the Centre of Indian
Trade Unions (CITU) staged a
dharna by locking the main gate of
the municipal office here on Monday demanding the State government to resolve their pending
problems. CITU leader Mallesh
said that issues of municipal staff
and workers were still pending despite bringing them to the notice
of the higher officials on several occasions. He demanded that the
State government should fulﬁll the
poll promise of regularising the
services of contract and outsourcing employees.
He also asked the government
to hike the salaries of municipal
workers working on contract basis.
Health camps from March 5
OUR BUREAU
Karimnagar: Arogyasri health
camps would be held in the district
from March 5. In a statement issued here on Monday, District Collector Neetu Kumari Prasad said
health camps would be organised
under various hospitals across the
district till March 27.
On March 5, health camps would
be organised at Damerapalli Gram
Panchayat of Mallapur mandal under Chelmeda Ananda Rao Institution of Medical Sciences and
Sushrutha Cancer Hospital in Amrutha Trinethra Multispeciality
Hospital of Damarapalli, Geetha
Hospital and Area Hospital of Jagtial. On March 12, health camps
would be organised at Mallaram
Gram Panchayat of Malhar Rao
mandal under Vijaya Hospital of
Peddapalli, Prathima Institution of
Medical Sciences, Surya Nursing
Home, Venkateshwara Kidney
Centre and Amrutha Nursing
Home.
On March 19, health camps
would be organised at the Government School in Gunmukula village
of Veenawanka mandal under Sri
Rama Multispeciality Hospital,
Apollo Reach Hospitals, Sarojini
Hospital, Chelmeda Ananda Rao
Institution of Medical Sciences and
Dr Bhoom Reddy Hospital. On
March 20, health camps would be
held at Korem Gram Panchayat of
Boinapalli mandal under Surya
Nursing Home, Area Hospital of
Sircilla, Prathima Institution of
Medical Sciences, Amritha
Trinethra Multispeciality Hospital
and Sushrutha Cancer Hospital.
On March 27, health camps
would be conducted at Peddapur
Grama Panchayat of Julapalli mandal under Sri Rama Multispeciality
Hospital of Jammikunta, Vijay
Hospital of Peddapalli, Chelmeda
Ananda Rao Institution of Medical
Sciences, Area Hospital of Karimnagar and Amrutha Nursing Home.
Karimnagar: To improve the
quality of higher education, semester system is likely to be
introduced in graduation
courses. To introduce this
method from the academic
year 2015-16, the Council of
Higher Education had already
prepared the syllabus.
In the ﬁrst phase, the semester examinations will be introduced for B.Com students. In
this connection, orders were
reportedly sent to all universities regarding the syllabus and
semester method. Receiving
the orders, the Satavahana
University is about to arrange
a meeting with the Principals
of private degree colleges to
discuss on the syllabus.
In this system, a total of six
semester examinations will be
conducted in a three-year degree course with two semester
examinations every year. According to the new method, in
the ﬁrst year degree course,
there will be ﬁrst and second
semester examinations, in the
second year degree course
there will be third and fourth
semester examinations and in
the ﬁnal year there will be ﬁfth
and sixth semester examinations. From ﬁrst to fourth semesters, there will be four sub-
Telugu actor
Akash joins TRS
Chennai: Telugu actor Jai
Akash, who starred in ﬁlms like
“Anandam" and "Ready," has
joined Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS). He has no plans
to leave acting. "I've officially
joined TRS party. I'd like to juggle between politics and ﬁlms,
so I have no plans of quitting acting. "The TRS government is
planning to set up a ﬁlm township and I'd like to do my bit to
be part of it.
Whatever we do, it should
beneﬁt the industry," Akash told
IANS Sunday. Senior TRS leader
Naini Narasimha Reddy welcomed Akash into the party.
jects per each semester with
50 marks each and for ﬁfth to
sixth semesters there will be
six subjects per each semester
with 50 marks each. In the ﬁrst
phase, this method is proposed
to be introduced to B.Com and
Computer course students. A
total of 1400 marks are allotted
for 28 examinations. For each
examination of 50 marks 3
hours of time will be given.
However, there are some
doubts on the implementation
of this new method for graduation. At present, this method
is being implemented for Engineering courses. But there is
an exemption for the ﬁrst year
engineering students. The
main reason for this is the delay in EAMCET counselling.
The admissions will be going
on up to the middle of the academic year.
So, the semester method is
from the second year for engineering students. For other degree courses, this method is
likely to be introduced from
the ﬁrst year itself. But even in
graduation courses, the admissions will be taking place till
the middle of the academic
year. Some students who fail
to secure admission in engineering and D.Ed courses prefer the degree courses in the
last minute.
Khammam: Devotees beware.
Make sure your wallet is full if you
have any plans to attend the Tiru
Kalyana Mahotsavam of Lord Sri
Seetha Ramachandra Swamy at
Bhadrachalam, widely known as
Dakshin Ayodhya.
The crass commercialisation
that has pervaded the temples in
the country has also caught the
Bhadradri temple management.
Barely a couple of months ago,
the temple authorities doubled
the prices of various puja and seva
tickets. Then the authorities reasoned that hundi collections and
other sources of revenue were not
enough to meet the maintenance
costs of the temple.
If this was not enough, the temple authorities have come up with
yet another shocker by increasing
the Kalyanam tickets of the Lord
Kalyanam ticket prices jacked up to fill temple coffers
A ﬁle photo of Sri Sitaramachandra Swamy Temple in Bhadrachalam
OUR BUREAU
Sangareddy (Medak): Foundation stones for developmental
activities worth Rs 11.31 crore
were laid by Minister for IT
and Panchayat Raj K Taraka
Rama Rao and Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao in Siddipet
Constituency on Monday.
It has been proposed to lay a
BT road from Pulluru to Siddipet at a cost of Rs 4.8 crore,
an R & B road from Harishnagar to Machapur at a cost of Rs
58 lakh and take up repair
works for Pulluru road at a cost
of Rs 5.24 crore.
A foundation stone was also
laid for construction of a road
from Banjarapalli to Bugga Rajeswara Swamy Temple at a
cost of Rs 69 lakh.
Addressing the gathering, K
T Rama Rao said that good
time had come for the roads of
Telangana. He said that the
present administration has
been executing road developmental works worth thousands
of crores like never before.
Muthyam Reddy, Revenue
Divisional Officer, Panchayat
Raj Department officials and
other people’s representatives
were present on the occasion.
Free legal
services to
villages soon
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Sangareddy: With the intention of extending free legal
services to villages, Telangana
State Legal Services Authority
(TSLSA) has decided to set up
village-level centers, according
to Senior Judge and Secretary,
TSLSA. He was the chief guest
at legal awareness camp held at
Ameenpur ZP High School at
Patancheru on Monday. Addressing the gathering, he said
due to lack of awareness among
people
about
legal
systems, they were not being
able to utilise the laws for their
beneﬁt.
In this context, he felt that
everyone must have basic legal
knowledge. He said the Legal
Services Authority was making
all efforts to reach out to people
in mandal and district levels
and that the services would be
extended to villages by setting
up centers there as well.
To use legal services and get
information, he said that
Supreme Court has started
15100 helpline.
In the programme, the children played a skit against child
marriages.
Farmers block
road for water
OUR BUREAU
Khammam: Farmers of Kotha Kothur village staged a demonstration
on the Khammam-Kodad road near Nandigama Branch Canal Cross,
two kilometres away from Nelakondapalli mandal headquarters in
Khammam district, demanding release of water to save their crops
from drying. The farmers, who squatted on the road, said that despite
their pleas to release water from Palair Balancing Reservoir to
Nandigama Branch Canal, the Nagarjunasagar Project (NSP) authorities
were indifferent. As a result, the rabi crop paddy was on the verge of
drying, they said.
“If the water is not released immediately, all our hopes of rabi will
be dented,” the farmers lamented. Traffic came to a grinding halt for
about half-an-hour. However, the police, who swang into action, restored the traffic by pacifying the farmers.
Bhadradri Lord’s darshan turns dearer
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KTR, Harish lay
stones for
several works
Rama scheduled to take place on
March 28. Moreover, the space
left for ordinary devotees, who
couldn’t afford to spend on
Kalyanam ticket, was little with
lion’s share of space at the Mithila
Stadium, where Lord’s celestial
marriage is to performed, allotted
to rich and affluent. Going by the
stats of the ticket pricing and
number, the space allotted for the
free darshan of the Lord could accommodate about 15,000 devotees against its capacity of around
35,000. The price of 1,250 couple’s ticket which was Rs 3,016 last
year has been increased to Rs
5,000 numbering.
The much-sought after 1,425
VVIP tickets that were priced Rs
2,000 last year has been increased
to Rs 3,000.Besides this, the temple authorities decided to sell 977
tickets of Rs 1,116; 1,500 tickets of
Rs 500; 7,598 tickets of Rs 200
and 6,032 tickets of Rs 100. It may
be mentioned here that the temple administration failed to earn
huge revenues last year due to
lack of demand for the Kalyanam
tickets. Speaking to The Hans India on Monday, the temple executive officer K Jyothi said that the
temple is offering Sachitra Ramayan, Ramadasu Keertan, sari
and pancha, Mutyala Talambralu
and four meals tickets to devotees
who buy couple’s tickets.
When asked about the last
year’s failure to sell all the tickets,
the EO denied to comment stating that she was not the official
then. However, she expressed
conﬁdence that the improved facilities and quality of service
would attract the devotees. Meanwhile, sources in the temple said
that
there
may
be an increase in the price of
prasadams too.