Shastripuram alleges general neglect of the civic authorities but an added dimension to their grievance is the release of dogs on the sly, apparently by GHMC workers.
Talking to the GHMC’s unions other than the GHMEU affiliated to the TRS, reveals that the T-union is being dishonest in demanding regularisation of thousands of contracted employees. Most of the unions at GHMC, while supporting the regularisation of contracted employees in principle, see TRS-affiliated GHMEU’s stance on the issue impractical. How can the government suddenly [...]
They believe sanitation is too rotten to be mended. However proposal has been sent to govt for merging it with engg. Currently, sanitation is with health wing.
Following the transfer of additional commissioner (planning) K Dhananjaya Reddy from GHMC, there are rumours that three additional commissioners serving other wings have placed their bids. The position being vacated after almost a decade has been the target of many officials, but only the most influential can hold it. The Planning wing is considered the [...]
In a show of solidarity, all the floor leaders of the civic political parties have lined up behind the commissioner in taking stern action against the TRS-affiliated GHME Union which is threatening to suspend civic works. The labour commissioner, who has notified of the Union’s arm-twisting tactics and he has served the Union with summons. [...]
The government can neither give in to the union demand for regularisation of 60,000 contract workers nor ignore it.
In a relief to thousands of pilgrims who visit the dargah of Maula Ali, which is more than 400 years old, braving steep and unsafe stairs, the GHMC has planned to construct an access road to hill top by the end of this year. Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain said that he received several representations from [...]
What GHMC feigns not to know is that most grievances citizens have relate to encroachments and illegal buildings. Town planning is the villain in all these affairs.
If we are poisoned by one of these eateries, then don’t complain, as the City Corporation seems least concerned for food safety and its standards.
The GHMC has identified 70 trouble spots if heavy rains lash the City.
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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