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HYDERABAD MONDAY 2 MARCH 2015
ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES
EESL to invest `1,000 crore
To organise a national-level LED manufacturing industry CEOs’ round
table conference in Hyderabad on March 10
OUR BUREAU
A danseuse performing as
part of Nritya Aradhana at
Sringeri Temple, Shanker
Math, in Hyderabad
on Sunday
50 girl students
fall sick due to
food poisoning
Tekkali (Srikakulam): Over
50 girl students of BC Gurukul School here fell sick on
Saturday night after consuming contaminated food. They
experienced stomach pain,
vomiting and diarrhoea. The
school staff took the students
to local government hospital
around midnight. After initial
treatment, doctors said their
condition was stable. State
Minister K Achennaidu, district collector Lakshminarayana and Health
Department officials visited
the hospital on Sunday and
made enquiries about the students’ health status. The Minister directed the doctors to
provide better treatment to the
girls. The students said they
had eaten their dinner with
brinjal curry, sambar, rice and
Bengal gram. Soon they experienced stomach pain and
started vomiting. They suspected food poisoning as the
reason.
Birth certificates
at Mee Seva
centres: Collector
Kakinada: East Godavari district Collector H Arun Kumar
has said that people can have
easy accessibility for obtaining both birth and death certificates from Mee Seva
centres instead of making repeated trips to concerned municipal offices to obtain the
same. Inaugurating the facility at the reserve police line
Mee Seva centre here on Sunday, the Collector said that at
present both death and birth
certificates are being issued
pertaining to the year 2014-15
only. The process of updating
the records of 2 to 3 previous
years will be completed by
next few days, the Collector
said. In this connection the
Collector also said that the
records pertaining to last
three to four decades are
being uploaded and it will
take some more time to issue
both certificates of these
years. The district joint Collector S Satyanarayana and
other officials attended.
Fashion fiesta
at Kakinada
Kakinada: A thee-day fashion
fiesta ‘Creative Events’ started
at SRMT Function Hall here
on Saturday. According to organiser Fouzia Tarannum, the
exhibits will definitely suit the
needs of youth particularly
young women. The exhibits
include a wide variety of sarees including designer sarees,
handloom sarees, imitation
jewellery, lifestyle and allied
products. Products in the price
range of Rs 500 to Rs 50,000
were displayed at the exhibition, according to organiser
Fouzia.
Hyderabad: Impressed with the
proactive measures of the government towards enhanced energy efficiency activities which
lead to considerable energy savings in the State, the Central government has recognised AP as
the best State and the best destination in the country for investments and implementation of
energy efficiency activities, according to official sources.
As a part of its support to the
noble cause, Energy Efficiency
Services Limited (EESL), Ministry of Power, Government of
India, has decided to organise a
national-level LED manufacturing industry CEOs’ round table
conference in Hyderabad on
March 10.
The conference will be inaugurated by the Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) P
Narayana and will be attended by
Principal Secretary (MA&UD) A
Giridhar, Secretary (Energy)
Ajay Jain, CMDs of DISCOMs,
senior representatives of Municipal Corporations in AP, State
Energy Conservation Mission
(SECM), New and Renewable
Energy Development Corporation of AP (NREDCAP) and other
senior officers from the State
government.
In addition, Dr Ajay Mathur,
Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), CEOs
from leading lighting industries
or their senior representatives
will be present, along with the
top members of two lighting associations namely Electric Lamp
and Component Manufacturers'
Association (ELCOMA) and LED
Products Manufacturer's Association (LEDMA). Reviewing the
arrangements for the major
Congress decries injustice
to Andhra Pradesh
S
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Activists burn effigies of Union Ministers
Suresh Prabhu, Arun Jaitley
Centre ‘neglecting’ assurances given to State
OUR BUREAU
Kadapa: The Congress party organised a demonstration here on
Sunday alleging ‘injustice’ to
Andhra Pradesh both in the Railway and the Union budgets. The
party activists burnt the effigies
of Union Ministers Suresh
Prabhu (Railways) and Arun
Jaitley (Finance) at the Seven
Roads Crossing.
Addressing the demonstrators, Kadapa district INTUC
president Sattar accused the BJP
leadership of ignoring the assurances given to the State at the
time of its bifurcation. He
claimed that there was no
chance of meeting the State
needs with the proposals made
in the Railway and Union budgets.
Sattar alleged that the Centre
was neglecting the assurances
like according special status to
Andhra Pradesh and assistance
to irrigation projects. He said
had the State government exerted pressure on the Centre
earlier the result would have
been different.
The INTUC leader urged the
State government to take along
all parties for pressing the Centre to meet its needs. Otherwise
grave injustice would be done to
Andhra Pradesh, he stated.
event of CEO’s conference with
MD, EESL, Saurabh Kumar
through teleconference Ajay
Jain, Secretary, Energy, I&I said
that the proposed CEOs’ conference would be immensely useful
for the State for ensuring considerable energy savings which ultimately benefitted the state and
stake holders.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who emphasised
the need for providing highly
qualitative and reliable power
supply for the consumers, fixed
targets for the completion of
DSM based Efficient Lighting
Programme (DELP) in the entire
State by 2015-16. Accordingly,
S Date clashes with other popular
entrance tests on May 10
S Govt likely to take decision today
YUVRAJ AKULA
Hyderabad:
The Andhra
Pradesh Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (Eamcet) is likely
to be rescheduled.
The Eamcet which is scheduled to be held on May 10 is
clashing with Common Law
Admission Test (CLAT) and
Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges
Karnataka (ComedK) entrance
examination, which are slated
to be held on May 10.
ComedK entrance test is
popular among the Teluguspeaking students and several
thousands of students appear
for the test every year. In view
of this, the AP government is
contemplating to reschedule
the Eamcet slated for May 10.
A senior official of Andhra
Pradesh State Council of
Higher Education (APSCHE)
said a decision would be taken
on Monday. Earlier, the APSCHE had announced that
Eamcet would be held on May
CM sanctions `11.26 cr for
drinking water in Anantapur
OUR BUREAU
Anantapur: Minister for Information Technology Dr Palle
Raghunath Reddy thanked Chief
Minister N Chandrababu Naidu
for sanctioning funds of Rs 11.28
crore to provide drinking water
and mitigate the sufferings of the
people affected by drought. He
said that the conditions were so
bad in the district that the
groundwater resources were getting depleted and reached an all
time low. On coming to know of
this, the Chief Minister decided
to sanction the amount.
The Minister suggested to District Collector Kona Sasidhar
and officials of the Rural Water
Supply Department to ensure
that there was no water scarcity
in the district. He told them to
Venkaiah tells Babu not
to air views in public
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He assured the states of Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh that the Centre would fulfill all the promises made under the A P Reorganization Act-2014. “The government
firmly believes in cooperative federalism
and strong India through strong states and
Team India approach,” he said.
Allaying apprehensions of the Andhra
Pradesh government, Venkaiah Naidu said
the residuary state would get a total of Rs
2,06,819 crore as a result of enhanced devolution during the next five years. Of the
total funds allotted, Rs 8654 crore would go
for panchayats, Rs 3636 crore for urban
bodies and Rs 261 crore for the judicial system, he said.
SECM in coordination with
other key departments have prepared an action plan for implementation of EE & EC activities.
On this occasion, the MD/EESL
specifically thanked the Chief
Minister for his unstinted support to EESL for achieving desired goals in EE & EC in A.P.
The EESL, with the coordination of SECM, MA&UD, and Energy Department, which has
completed distribution of
around 35 lakhs LED bulbs in domestic sector and around 80,000
LED street lights in Greater
Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation in a record period in the
first phase, now is contemplating
to invest around Rs 1,000 crore
for implementation of EE & EC
programmes in AP.
The roundtable conference is
expected to deliberate the key issues and challenges associated
with implementation of LED
street lighting system and DELP
scheme in domestic sector which
are initiated by the State government as a part of providing 24 X
7 power supply to all domestic,
commercial and Industrial consumers in a time bound manner.
Eamcet likely to be
rescheduled
The 14th Finance Commission has examined the financial situation of the residuary AP as brought out by the state government in the white paper on state finances
and made the recommendations, Venkaiah
Naidu said, adding that the state may still
need support for financing certain activities
like building a new capital city. The centre
has included metro projects of Vizag and
Vijayawada in the budget, he added.
Referring indirectly to the impasse in
parliament on land acquisition bill, the
Union minister said it was unfortunate that
for political reasons, developmental efforts
of the BJP government were now being
stalled. This would prove detrimental to
our people.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Sunday
clear the pending arrears of Rs
5.77 crore to the water tankers
and use the remaining amount
for flushing, deepening, transportation and borewell servicing.
The Minister said that on an
earlier occasion too, the Chief
Minister Chandrababu Naidu responded immediately to the
drinking water crisis and sanctioned Rs 7.80 crore under the
Community
Reinvestment
Funds (CRF) and Rs 3.33 crore
under the non-CRF category. In
addition to that, the Chief Minister released Rs 11.28 crore, the
Minister added.
80 tmc of Krishna water
sought for Handri-Neeva
A delegation of the all-party
leaders on Sunday submitted a
representation to Minister Palle
Raghunatha Reddy demanding
allocation of 80 tmc of water
from the Krishna River to the
Handri-Neeva project, so the water problem of several Rayalaseema districts could be
solved. Members of the delegation met Palle in the Municipal
Guest House and explained the
problems farmers were facing in
Anantapur district.
The leaders stated that if the
Krishna water was allocated to
Handri-Neeva Project the water
shortage problems of Kadapa,
Kurnool and Chittoor districts
could also be solved. They said a
dharna would be organised on
March 12 to press the demand,
involving all parties.
The leaders invited the TDP
and the BJP leadership to join
the protest.
Mufti thanks Pak, terrorists
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Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
hit out at Sayeed's remarks and asked the
BJP to explain its stand. "Pakistan,
Huriyaat & Militants ALLOWED Peaceful
conduct of elections" says Syeed, I guess
we should be grateful to their generosity
(sic).
"Dear @BJP4India Please explain role
of security forces & Polling staff considering your CM just said, "Pakistan allowed
elections in J&K", Omar wrote on the microblogging site twitter.
On a retweet about the BJP worker in
Jammu celebrating Omar wrote, "Or Just
thanking Pak for JK elections."
Speaking to reporters, Sayeed also voiced
hope that the induction of separatist
turned mainstream politician Sajjad Gani
Lone in the ministry would open avenues
for others to follow the suit. "Sajjad Gani
Lone has given an opening, an avenue for
others (separatists) to follow," he said.
He said peace is a pre-requisite of governance.
"They (referring to Pakistan) also have
assets Hurriyat, other militants, if they had
done something (during the election) such
a participation of people was not possible.
I am proud that heart of the Valley Sringar
also came forward and participated in the
elections," Sayeed said.
"If Jammu and Kashmir have to be a
model of growth. Like people in Gujarat
say 'Good Governance'. Peace is prerequisite," he said.
Lauding the then Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee as a great statesman, Sayeed said the government will take forward
his philosophy of "Insaniyat, Jamhooriat
and Kashmiriyat".
"We believed that Hurriyat and separatists also have a view point. We did not
keep them locked in homes," he said.
Sayeed said the BJP and PDP have put
together a great team to work together.
"History has given us an opportunity. Kashmir remained a problem before every
Prime Minister be it Nehru, Shastri,
Morarji and even before Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. We want to change it. We
want to make this alliance a turning point
in trying to meet hearts and minds of the
people," he said.
Sayeed said people like it or not but it
was his decision to bring together "North
Pole and South Pole". He said Kashmir was
the only Muslim majority state which rejected Jinnah's theory and acceded to India.
"In Kashmir complete autonomy and in
Jammu 'Ek Pradhan, Ek Vidhan, Ek Nishan'. This has happened. We want to connect Kashmiri People with rest of the country, what is the purpose of connecting
Kashmir with Jammu?...History has given
us a chance. We have a majority in Kashmir,
BJP has got 26 seats in Jammu," he said.
10 for AP and Telangana states.
However, Telangana government rejected APSCHE schedule and announced that it
would conduct separate Eamcet on May 14.
After failing to persuade
Telangana government for
holding common entrance test
in both States, the Andhra
Pradesh government had announced that it would also conduct the entrance test separately.
In the wake of bifurcation of
erstwhile AP, Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University-Kakinada (JNTU-K) would conduct
examination. Earlier, JNTUHyderabad conducted in united
AP state.
As many as 1,65,000 seats are
available in university constituent and affiliated colleges
in the State. A total of 1,16,732
seats are under convener quota.
Earlier State Human Resource Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao said that two lakh students are expected to take
examination this year.
Dalmiya back as
BCCI boss,
Gokaraju to be VP
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Meanwhile, elections will be
held for the posts of Secretary,
Joint Secretary and Treasurer.
Incumbent secretary Sanjay
Patel, a known Srinivasan loyalist, will be up against HPCA’s
Anurag Thakur, who will be
representing the Pawar group.
Jharkhand’s
Amitabh
Choudhary will lock horns
with Chetan Desai of Goa for
the post of joint secretary,
while Haryana’s Anirudh
Chaudhry is pitted against
UPCA Secretary Rajeev
Shukla.
The two Vice-President’s
posts with be between Jyotiraditya Scindia and CK
Khanna and Ravi Sawant
against Samarjit Singh Gaekwad.
Rare show of
Left unity
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Karat said the second ordinance brought out by the Centre would help in inviting private individuals in coal mining.
The farmers, poorer sections,
youth, women and students
should be prepared for struggles against the government’s
pro-rich policies.
Telangana Armed struggle
leader Mallu Swarajyam
hoisted the party’s flag marking the inauguration of the
conference.
The conference will continue till March 4, culminating in a public meeting.
Chada Venkat Reddy said
that unless all the Left parties
came together ignoring their
internal differences, they
would not have any future.
Venkat Reddy said it was
shameful that suicide of farmers continuing even after
Telangana State was formed.
He warned the TRS government that they would not keep
quiet if the Chief Minister
wastes public money in the
name of ‘Vaastu’ and shift the
Secretariat. He flayed KCR for
not giving appointment to the
Opposition leaders.
AIYF bike rally
in Kurnool
A walk through shallow water into jaws of death
Kurnool: Activists of the AllIndia Youth Federation
(AIYF) on Sunday organised
a bike rally in the town, appealing to the people to make
the 25th Mahasabha of CPI to
be organised in Vijayawada a
grand success. The three-day
meet is scheduled to begin on
March 3, leaders of the AIYF
and Girijan Samakhya said.
The rally took off at C Lamp
Circle and passed through the
Collectorate and Old BusStand before culminating at
the New Bus Stand.
The five students who drowned in the Krishna on Saturday were just having fun after pre-final exams
RAVI BENJAMIN
Guntur: Chilamooru village in
Kollu mandal in the district is
yet to get over the shock even after a day passed after five students of a private college met
with a watery grave on Saturday.
Fate was merciless to the victims, all second year Intermediate students of Nehru Niketan
College in Tenali, who just went
to have some frolic after the prefinal examinations.
The victims drowned in the
Krishna river at Chilamooru village amidst helpless cries to save
them on Saturday afternoon but
there was none to help the hapless children. Four other friends
who saw them drowning began
to scream for help but there was
not a soul in sight to heed their
cries.
According to the students who
survived, all nine of them had
taken intermediate second year
pre-final examination and met
again at the college after taking
lunch at their homes. The group
of nine friends decided to go to
the Krishna river bank at Chilamooru village.
After arriving at the village,
they loitered in the fields for
some time and then decided to
go the bank of the river. Finding
not much water in the river, they
walked to an island called Chilamurulanka through shallow
water and after reaching the
place got into the water and
played splashing water at each
other.
Later, spotting a boat floating
a furlong away, four of the nine
students decided to board the
boat and, in the process, all of
them got trapped in the mud underneath. From there they
slipped into a 20-metre-deep
trench and drowned.
As they began to drown, another student jumped into the
water to save his friends but met
with the same fate. A villager,
who heard their cries, alerted
others in the village, but by the
time they came, all the five met
the watery grave.
The deceased were identified
as Kommineni Mahesh Babu, Bitra, Rupesh, V Eshwara Raghu
Vamsi and Sai Vamsi, all classmates. Those who survived include Bitra Shiva Gandhi, Akhil,
Somnath and Sandeep.
The students, before getting
into the water, had visited
Rameshwara temple in the vil-
lage and prayed for success in
the intermediate final examination not knowing what cruel fate
they had in store.
A pal of gloom descended in
the village as parents and relatives of the victims who reached
the river bank after hearing the
shocking news. Circle Inspector
Ravindra and RDO Narasimhulu
rushed to the spot by the time
the villagers fished out the bodies. The bodies were sent for
postmortem examination.