The State Cabinet on Friday evening cleared an ordinance to amend the Preventive Detention Act with the aim to bring some more offences under its ambit.
Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari told a media conference after the Cabinet meeting that the new law would deal with supply of spurious seed, fertilizers and pesticides, adulterated food, milk, oil, chillies, and turmeric.
The law would also deal with people circulating fake documents and certificates, irregularities in rice under the Public Distribution System, offenders in forest wealth, encroachers and smugglers, people handling lethal weapons and explosives, sexual assaults, cyber crimes, white collar crimes, and gaming and gambling.
The government had also banned on-line Rummy by issuing another ordinance proposing changes to the Gaming and Gambling Act. Though the government had closed clubs where people played cards, Mr. Srihari said, it was noted that online gambling had become popular.
Two more ordinances, effecting changes to the Telangana Value Added Tax and modifying the Record of Rights Act, were also cleared. The amendment to VAT would allow commercial tax authorities to reopen cases of concealment of income up to six years while the changes to the RoR Act were aimed at completion of mutation within 15 days and removal of discretionary powers of sub-registrars.
Mr. Srihari said the Cabinet discussed the failure of some farmers to enrol themselves in the ongoing comprehensive survey of the community. So, it was resolved to request them to compete the formalities.
The Chief Minister would launch the sheep distribution programme in his native Gajwel constituency on June 20. The government would operate a hundred mobile vet clinics from next month. Fish seed would be supplied free to 24,000 tanks this year against 4,000 tanks last year.
The Cabinet gave in-principle nod to fill 26,290 posts from constable to Deputy Superintendents of Police over the next three years. They included 18,290 new posts and 8,000 vacancies. About 40 crore saplings would be planted during the Haritha Haaram programme this year.
The Cabinet approved ₹1,200-crore guarantee by the State government to ₹5,000-crore loan permitted to be raised by the Telangana State Road Development Corporation. Earlier, the loan limit was ₹1,000 crore.
Published - June 17, 2017 11:08 pm IST
