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Jal Shanti ministry asks Telangana to release funds for GRMB

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Hyderabad: Post the Centre’s proposal to wind up the Godavari River Management Board (GRMB) citing lack of funds, union Jal Shakti ministry secretary Pankaj Kumar on Friday wrote a letter to Telangana chief secretary Santhi Kumari, requesting that the required funds be released.\
Pankaj Kumar said that the GRMB had approved a budget of Rs 10 crore for the financial year 2022-23 and Rs 16 crore for the current financial year 2023-24.
On the other hand, the Godavari management board has reported that no fund has been released from the state governments with regard to the previous and as well as current financial year and the board is utilizing its reserve fund to meet all expenses required for the discharge of its functions.

“The reserve funds are almost exhausted by now,” Pankaj Kumar wrote in his letter.
He further mentioned Clause 1(m) of the Gazette Notification issued in July 2021 in his letter and recalled that Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are responsible for any unwanted consequences in projects as they are still delaying the release of funds.
Requesting that funds may be released to GRMB immediately by the state, Pankaj Kumar said that the functioning of the board is being affected adversely.
Additionally, the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) also called out to the Centre on the state government’s delay in releasing funds.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 29, 2023
Telangana: KCR asks CS Shanti Kumari to assess crop damage due to rains

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Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asked state chief secretary A Santhi Kumari to start examining the damage caused by unseasonal rainfall in various regions, particularly Choppadandi and Karimnagar rural mandals.
He asked her to communicate with district collectors about agricultural damage caused by unseasonal rainfall and to compile reports so that further action could be taken.
ఈమేరకు ఆయా జిల్లాల కలెక్టర్లతో మాట్లాడి దెబ్బతిన్న పంటలకు సంబంధించిన వివరాలతో కూడిన నివేదికలు తెప్పించాలని సీఎం తెలిపారు.
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) April 23, 2023
Unseasonal rainfall, thunderstorms, and high winds have pummelling numerous sections of the state since Friday night. Farmers’ harvested crops were drenched in numerous locations after being stored for drying.

The hailstorm on Saturday afternoon destroyed several mango plantations in Siddipet, Medak, and other nearby places. Even though the ryots attempted to protect the crop with tarpaulin coverings, the rice piles taken to the markets by farmers in Husnabad were destroyed.
The paddy fields in various Mahabubabad district mandals, including Kuruvi, Sirolu, Chinna Guduru, Marimeda, and Dantalapally, were also devastated by rains and hailstorms.
A poultry farm in the district’s Errakunta tanda in Thorur mandal collapsed, and 20 sheep perished when lightning hit Govindaram in Bheemaram mandal of Jagtial district.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 23, 2023
Former law minister Shanti Bhushan dies aged 97

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New Delhi: Former Union law minister and eminent jurist Shanti Bhushan, who represented politician Raj Narain in the historic case that led to the annulment of then prime minister Indira Gandhi’s election in 1975, died here on Tuesday following a brief illness. He was 97.
A source close to his family said Bhushan was not keeping well for some time and died at his home in Delhi.
In the historic Raj Narain vs Indira Nehru Gandhi case, the Allahabad High Court in its verdict in June 1975 had disqualified Gandhi for a period of six years from contesting elections.
The plea was filed by freedom fighter and politician Raj Narain, who had unsuccessfully contested the 1971 Lok Sabha elections from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh against her, accusing her of corrupt electoral practices.
Gandhi had moved the Supreme Court against the high court verdict. It triggered a series of events culminating into the imposition of Emergency on June 25, 1975.
Bhushan, who was also a senior advocate, served as the law minister from 1977 to 1979 in the Morarji Desai cabinet.
Bhushan, whose sons Jayant and Prashant Bhushan are leading lawyers, was active in the legal profession till recently and had argued on a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe into the Rafale fighter jets deal.
Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said he was deeply pained by the news of Bhushan’s passing away. “My deepest condolences to the family members on his passing away. My prayers for the departed soul. Om Shanti,” he wrote on Twitter.

Shanti Bhushan had also filed a plea in the apex court challenging the roster practice of allocation of cases by the Chief Justice of India.
In its verdict on his plea, the top court had in July 2018 maintained that the Chief Justice of India is “the master of the roster” and has the prerogative and authority to allocate cases to different benches of the apex court.
In November 2010, Shanti Bhushan had stuck to his sensational allegation that there was corruption in the judiciary and had refused to apologise to the Supreme Court asserting he was willing to be jailed for contempt.
He had made the remarks when the apex court had asked whether he and his son Prashant were willing to tender an apology to avoid being hauled up for contempt.
In his political career, he was a member of the Congress (O) and later of the Janata Party. He served as a Rajya Sabha member too. He also had a six-year stint with the BJP.
He was vocal on the issue of corruption, and was among the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party, which he later quit.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 1, 2023