Getting it right
on wrong things!
The predictions for Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari, who also holds education portfolio, and Health Minister C. Laxma Reddy are proving to be correct, if one compares the developments related to EAMCET -II with the words of ‘siddhanti’ who read the almanac at the official celebrations of Ugadi in March this year.
The two Ministers may have taken the prediction that they had something adverse in store for them during the year, after a word of solace from Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at the event that they need not be scared too much by the prediction as it would only show the trend and it should be taken as guiding spirit as it would also show the way forward.
The two could be ruing themselves now for not observing enough caution with regard to their duties since they have incurred tonnes of malice from all the stakeholders, particularly the students and parents.
Perhaps, Bachampalli Santosh Kumar Shastry, who made the predictions based on ‘panchangam’, may have some suggestions for the two towards coming out of the mess, stainless!
Personal touch
to drunk driving
Tapping the emotional bondage is the new mantra of police in its campaign against drunk and rash driving which nipped a tender life in the bud recently. If you are unmarried and get caught driving drunk, your parents are sure to get a call from the city police who will inform them of your misgiving. Worse, if married, your spouse will by summoned.
What follows the telephone call is a counselling session where they will be tipped about the consequences of dangerous driving by their kin.
And if you are still not embarrassed enough, the police will ask your life partner or parents to keep up the counselling back home.
Since the efforts of police to confiscate driving licenses of people responsible for accidents have not materialised, it was decided to lend a personal touch to anti-drunken driving. Police and excise departments justified the moral dealing citing it as a method to inculcate reasoning among many who do not easily get dissuaded from driving drunk. With Hyderabad witnessing 4,500 road accidents on an average per year in which 2,000 people die and 6,000 get injured, this backhand deal adopted by the police could turnout to be life saving, say many.
Missed opportunity for job-seekers
Sunday (July 31) was another day of missed opportunity for some job seekers as the recruitment exams for constables of transport and excise departments which was conducted by Telangana State public service commission and jobs in Groups C and D of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) clashed.
Since the educational qualification for both the exams was Intermediate, many candidates had applied both ways not knowing that the exam would be on the same day and at the same time. At the end of the day, the public service commission issued a release that 79 per cent of the candidates took its exam for 477 posts. So, it can be safely assumed that quite a good number of candidates wrote the SSC exam for Central government jobs.
Officials can now breathe easy
The week gone by was tense for government officials, so to say, as Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had announced his plan to take up surprise visits to see for himself the progress of Haritha Haaram programme of planting trees.
The officials can now heave a sigh of relief that Mr. Rao might not turn up because of the EAMCET fiasco and also that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the former’s Assembly constituency on Sunday. Moreover, the two weeks allotted for the programme are over. His assurance to go on surprise visits to check plantations almost over, what remains to be seen is whether Mr. Rao will stick to his threat that the performance of leaders and officials will be judged by their participation in the programme.
B. CHANDRASHEKHAR, NIKHILA HENRY, N. RAHUL, & YUNUS Y. LASSANIA
