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Hyderabad: Govt mandates Qazis to work within specified jurisdictions

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Hyderabad: The government of Telangana has mandated that all government Qazis, who are appointed under Section 2 of the Qazi Act, must strictly adhere to the limits specified in their appointment letter. The Collector of Hyderabad was asked to issue instructions to all official Qazis to work within their jurisdictions.
The RDO Hyderabad has ordered all subordinates and Tehsildars of Amberpet, Asif Nagar, Bahadurpura, Bandlaguda, Charminar Golkonda, Himayatnagar, Nampally, and Sayeedabad to issue instructions to the government Qazis in their respective Tehsil boundaries with a copy of the government’s memorandum dated 23 January. The Qazis are expected to perform nikah only in the areas and boundaries mentioned in their appointment letter and adhere to the tax areas listed on the appointment letter.
The government’s move comes after receiving several complaints about some Qazis who have been interfering in the territories of other Qazis by misusing Section 4 of the Qazi Act. The Minority Welfare Department has contacted the government, which has taken this drastic step to address the issue. Secretary, Minority Welfare Department, Ahmad Nadeem has issued a memo, clarifying that the Qazis appointed under Section 2 of the Act must strictly adhere to the scope of their appointment and should not interfere with the boundaries of other Qazis.

The government has made it clear that the public is free to hire private Qazis, but Qazis appointed under Section 2 should not interfere with the boundaries of other Qazis by resorting to Section 4. The government has warned that any further complaint against them will result in action being taken against them without any notice, and their services will be suspended.
It is worth noting that the government had divided the then seven Qazi Zones and established 32 new Qazi Zones on 20 March 2022. Since the approval of the appointments, the government has appointed new Qazis in 13 Qazi Zones by implementing GO 13.
The Collector of Hyderabad has issued these orders to all official Qazis in the jurisdiction, and it is expected that the Qazis will comply with the government’s mandate. Any Qazi found to be violating the government’s order will face disciplinary action, including suspension of their services.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 2, 2023
Adams administration, facing new costs, mandates more budget cuts

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“We face these new needs and threats at a time when the city’s tax revenue growth is slowing, and many economists fear that stress in the banking sector increases the odds of an economic recession,” Jiha wrote. “Therefore, we must act now. We have less than a month to identify the resources needed to reduce the strain on our budget, decrease out-year gaps, and avoid disruption to programs and services that keep our city clean, safe, and healthy.”
Jiha was referring to the city’s executive budget proposal, the next step in the iterative process of passing a spending plan, which is typically released in late April.
“Savings initiatives must be submitted to [the Office of Management and Budget] by April 14; they cannot include layoffs and should avoid meaningfully impacting services where possible,” Jiha wrote. “OMB will identify savings opportunities for your respective agency if the PEG targets are not met.”
While most agencies will be required to make the cuts for the upcoming fiscal year and several thereafter, the Department of Education and the City University of New York will need to meet a lower savings target of 3 percent.
The announcement comes just a day after the City Council unveiled a budget proposal of its own.
Responding to the initial blueprint unveiled by the mayor in February, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams argued Monday that the city will have more revenue than it had initially predicted — so much, in fact, that the city could afford to fund more than $1 billion worth of new priorities.
The administration does not appear to agree.
“Mayor Adams has repeatedly said that we cannot sugarcoat the reality of the fiscal and economic challenges we are facing,” mayoral spokesperson Jonah Allon said in a statement.

“While we continue to have positive conversations with our partners in Albany, we face a perfect storm of factors — including near historic levels of spending as a result of billions of dollars in costs related to asylum seekers and the need to fund labor deals that are years overdue. At the same time, we are facing a slowdown in city tax revenue growth and what is predicted by financial experts to be a weakening of the nation’s economy. Ignoring these realities would be irresponsible and would cost New Yorkers more in the end.”
The mayor most recently ordered a savings initiative in September that focused on wiping thousands of vacant positions off the city’s books. The latest move Tuesday drew praise from the Citizens Budget Commission, which has been sounding the alarm on several hidden costs in the spending plan.
“Yes, revenues may be higher than OMB projects, and the Council is right that the City has in-year reserves that can be used,” said the commission’s president, Andrew Rein, in a statement. “But still, the reported budget gaps, collective bargaining costs, city and state fiscal cliffs and under-budgeted programs dwarf estimates of higher revenues.”
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 4, 2023
Ron DeSantis moves to permanently ban Covid mandates in Florida

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Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis has announced a proposal to permanently ban Covid mandates in the state.
In a press release issued earlier this week, DeSantis said that he has proposed legislation to “make permanent Covid freedoms in Florida”, adding that the “strong pro-freedom, anti-mandate action will permanently protect Floridians from losing their jobs due to Covid vaccine mandates, protects parents’ rights, and institutes additional protections that prevent discrimination based on Covid vaccine status”.
The proposal includes permanently banning mask requirements throughout the state, prohibiting vaccine and mask requirements in schools, prohibiting Covid passports in the state, and prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on Covid vaccines, all in attempts to protect Floridians from the “biomedical security state”.
The proposal also claims to protect “medical freedom of speech” by promising to protect medical professionals’ freedom of speech, the right to disagree with the “preferred narrative of the medical community,” as well as the religious views of medical professionals.
“When the world lost its mind, Florida was a refuge of sanity, serving strongly as freedom’s lynchpin,” DeSantis said in the announcement of his proposal. “These measures will ensure Florida remains this way and will provide landmark protections for free speech for medical practitioners.”
The recent proposal follows DeSantis’s repeated criticisms of Covid mandates. In 2021, DeSantis signed a series of measures that sought to protect Floridians from pandemic mandates set forth by local governments, which he called “unscientific, unnecessary directives”.
Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, supported DeSantis’s proposal, saying: “As a health sciences researcher and physician, I have personally witnessed accomplished scientists receive threats due to their unorthodox positions.”
“However, many of these positions have proven to be correct, as we’ve all seen over the past few years. All medical professionals should be encouraged to engage in scientific discourse without fearing for their livelihoods or their careers,” he added.

Last year, Ladapo announced that Florida will formally recommend against Covid vaccinations for healthy children.
“We’re kind of scraping at the bottom of the barrel, particularly with healthy kids, in terms of actually being able to quantify with any accuracy and any confidence the even potential of benefit,” he said.
The announcement contradicted guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the Food and Drug Administration.
Last December, DeSantis petitioned the Florida supreme court to have a grand jury investigate whether Floridians were misled by Covid vaccine manufacturers over the shots’ potential side effects.
The court granted DeSantis’s petition, and the grand jury will convene for a year before forming a decision.
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

January 22, 2023