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Telangana Govt to set up super specialty hospital in every mandal

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The Telangana State government has come up with a comprehensive road map to strengthen medical and health services, according to Deputy Chief Minister of Health T Rajaiah.

T Rajaiah would establish super specialty and multi specialty hospital in every village and mandal. He also said PHCs would be upgraded by appointing four doctors in each centre. The government would soon introduce biometric systems in hospital to ensure that the doctors and the staff attend to their duties on time.

Apart from it, the government is planning to add more diseases to existing 938 in the Arogya-sri scheme, he said.

The Minister said the government would focus attention more on the seasonal diseases in the tribal community. “An awareness programme on the contagious diseases in the tribal region would be conducted. Those affected with contagious disease would be isolated and given corporate treatment,” the minister said.

Rajaiah directed officials to complete all the pending projects. He wanted the officials to provide accurate estimates for projects to be taken up, so that they can be included in the budget. “The government would purchase required equipment for primary health centres, community health centre or area hospitals,” said the Minister.

Speaking about security and sanitation in the hospitals, he said a Mumbai-based agency has been roped in to monitor the situation in the hospitals.

Like private hospitals, the government hospitals would allow visitors to meet patients only at stipulated timings. The Minister directed officials to use hospital funds for the sanitation purposes in the hospitals.

Telangana Govt grants fund for IT Park retrofitting

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Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) in technical cooperation with Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH launched a unique initiative of 5-point programme on “Retrofitting of existing IT parks in Cyberabad Zone of TSIIC” at Tech Mahindra auditorium, Hi-Tech City. Telangana IT and Panchayat Raj minister KT Rama Rao launched the programme and unveiled an information brochure at Tech Mahindra auditorium, Hi-Tech City.

KTR said, “To encourage more IT parks go for retrofitting, Telangana government has granted `5 lakh each for an IT Park as an incentive to appoint consultant or an expert to advice on retrofitting. Our endeavour is to see that Telangana is not just developed industrially but also environmentally. To improve the green cover 200 crore saplings will be planted across the State in next one year.” Cyberabad has 124 buildings and we will see to it that all these buildings are retrofitted so as to make them accessible to physically challenged people. Currently three hundred IT employees are commuting to their workplaces on their bicycles.

With a vision is to see nearly 25 per cent of IT workforce commutes to their workplace by bicycle in one year State government is examining a proposal to construct a cycling track alongside the outer ring road adjoining service road to hold international cycling events or competitions. Raghu Babu of GIZ said, “Retrofitting is required for improving work environment and employability, to achieve improved economic performance and environmental performance. India has about 1500 IT and Industrial Parks. They must follow this role model initiative.

We expect that at least 30 companies or IT parks to go for Retro Fitting in next three years. This is being a new initiative we expect more IT parks replicate it. We want government to spell out new policy on greening of industrial policy.” Rita Soni, chief executive of Nasscom Foundation said, “The foundation is excited to partner TSIIC-GIZ for the e-waste management and inclusion of persons with disabilities and is looking to inculcate responsible business in the companies from the IT Park. We intend to make this as an example for all the other IT parks to follow.” The Retro-fitting programme (5-point programme) aims to improve the sustainable development of Industrial Parks of TSIIC and Cyberabad Zone.

The 5-point programme includes Retrofitting of existing buildings into green buildings, barrier free workspace and zero waste buildings; solid waste management in the industrial park, including E-waste management; promotion of “Cycle to Work”; increasing green cover in the industrial parks; storm-water management and rain water harvesting. Nasscom Foundation- the social development arm of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Godrej GBC, Society for Rural Awakening and Community Organisation (SRACO), Forest Department of GoAP and Hyderabad Bicycling Club (HBC) are partnered in this project.

Companies such as Tech Mahindra, Phoenix India, TSI Waverock, Divyashree and I Labs have signed declaration of Intent for Retro fitting. GIZ has ten years of work experience and worked with 35 industrial parks around Hyderabad. German Government has already pledged a support of `10 crore grants to GIZ to study, adapt and implement climate changes and impacts on these parks.

source from: Metro India

Telangana Govt to move SC on engg admissions

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The commencement of academic year of engineering colleges may be delayed by a month or two as the Telangana government decided to appeal to the Supreme Court to give relief from its orders to begin the classes from August 1.

A decision to this effect was taken by the Telangana government on Saturday and the appeal may be filed on Monday.

Advocate General will approach SC on July 7 asking for postponement

The academicians are of the opinion that if the Supreme Court accepts the appeal, the commencement of academic year may be delayed. The Telangana government, reportedly, made this move to overcome the fee reimbursement problem. In a meeting on Saturday, the education department officials apprised Chief Minister of possible legal problems on account of eligibility criteria.

They advised that it would be better to take some time to overcome the issue. The development has left the parents a worried lot.However, the Chief Minister Office informed that shortage of All India Service officers was the reason behind the decision to approach the Supreme Court. According to the directions given by Supreme Court earlier, admissions into the engineering colleges must be completed by August 1 and classes should begin immediately after that.

A discussion was held in the meeting between education department officials and the Chief Minister on the completion of admission process. All the officials and Chief Minister opined that lack of higher officials and IAS officials was hindering the process of admissions. Chief Minister asked Advocate General to seek the postponement of admission process on the said ground. He asked AG to argue the case that out of 120 IAS officers required for smooth functioning of government only 70 are available in Telangana hence the admission process needs some more time.

With this, the students who have qualified EAMCET 2014 have to wait for two more months to be enrolled for admission into their desired institutions and courses. The statement released by the CMO said that in view of shortage of required officials, the counseling for the EAMCET 2014 should be postponed. Chief Minister has asked Advocate General to file a petition in SC asking for postponement of counseling till October last week. Advocate General will approach SC on Monday July 7 asking for postponement. Education Minister G Jagdeeshwar Reddy, Advocate General Rama Krishna Reddy, Commissioners of various educational bodies, chief secretary Rajiv Sharma and other senior officials attended the meeting held at Secretariat.