Minister for Law, Endowments, Forests & Environment A. Indrakaran Reddy announced in the Assembly on Saturday that a total of 1,554 vacancies of various posts in the lower courts would be filled soon.
He also stated that there was no proposal to shift the High Court from the present premises.
He made the announcement while replying the discussion on demands for grants pertaining to his departments.
The issue was raised by Kausar Mohiuddin of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM).
The Minister stated that there was no proposal from the High Court too on its shifting and it would continue in the same premises.
A total of six demands for grants with a sum of about ₹19,464 crores pertaining to Governor and Council of Ministers, General Administration and Elections, Information & Public Relations, State Legislature, Administration of Justice and Fiscal Administration, Planning, Surveys and Statistics were passed.
Members Mr. Mohiuddin, Hanmanth Shinde, K. Venkatesh and Ch. Kranti Kiran (all TRS), D. Sridhar Babu (Congress) and K. Chander (AIFB) spoke on the demands.
On Mr. Sridhar Babu’s concern over shifting of files from the Secretariat to other premises on the pretext of construction of new Secretariat buildings, Minister for Finance T. Harish Rao said there was no need for such fears as inventory of all files was prepared along with their custodians.
On the election promises of interim relief to employees and increase in the age of retirement, Mr. Rao said they were under the consideration of the Chief Minister.
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On issuance of advertisements to newspapers and television channels in other States at the cost of local media, also raised by Mr. Sridhar Babu, Minister for Industries and IT K. T. Rama Rao said there was nothing wrong telling the good work done by the government in other parts of the country.
Advertisements on Rythu Bandhu had made several State governments such as Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and others introduce similar schemes.
It had also made the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre to introduce PM-KISAN scheme, he explained.
In the past, it was used to say that what either West Bengal or Gujarat thinks today, the country will think tomorrow, but same thing was said about Telangana now.
“What Telangana is thinking today, the country will think tomorrow,” he stated.
