It is a record of sorts that Anurag Sharma has completed a year as in-charge Director General of Police in Telangana State.
Never in the history of police forces that a State has had an in-charge DGP for such a long tenure.
Post-bifurcation, Mr. Sharma and J.V. Ramudu were appointed as in-charge DGPs for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh respectively pending bifurcation of IPS officers between the two States.
As per the Supreme Court guidelines, the States were supposed to suggest six senior most IPS officers to the Union Public Service Commission for selection to the post.
The UPSC will shortlist three names and send them to the State governments to take the final call.
Andhra Pradesh has already completed the process and retained Mr. Ramudu in the post.
But, the list sent by Telangana government is still pending with the UPSC which has led to the undue delay in the finalisation of the police boss.
‘Job mela’
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has lighted up the spirits of unemployed youth with his announcement on the occasion of State formation day celebrations on June 2 that the government will notify 25,000 jobs next month.
The announcement was lapped up by students of Osmania University as they lost no time in representing to the Telangana State Public Service Commission Chairman Ghanta Chakrapani to ensure that non-locals did not get the jobs.
They also told him that the injustice to them in jobs in the united State was not repeated. That the students are now focussed on jobs and other education related issues is a welcome change from the environment of conflict on the campus due to delay in formation of Telangana State two years ago.
The students are on protest mode over the issue of Chief Minister’s decision to allot 11 acres of the university land for the low-cost housing for weaker sections of the society.
Between the devil
and deep sea
The cash-for-vote scam involving Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator A. Revanth Reddy is no doubt a hot topic now in the two Telugu speaking States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The case has resulted in a demoralising or rather a sullen effect in Telugu Desam while giving a feeling of new high in the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
However, the case is proving to be a tightrope walk for some investigating police officers as they have connections and interests in the two States.
“The ongoing investigation is like getting caught between the devil and the deep sea for a few officers as even a slight error in the process was likely to expose them to the anger of the powers that be from either side,” a senior bureaucrat in the know of developments remarked adding that only time will tell whether they could come out winners unscathed.
It’s all about rice
and sugar
Procurement of essential commodities such as rice and sugar is getting increasingly a difficult task to States in the wake of scrapping of levy by millers completely from October.
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States have already experienced difficulties in procurement of food grains in the last season (2014-15) when the Centre reduced the levy to 25 per cent from the previous 75 per cent.
It was even more difficult in procuring sugar due to fluctuation in market prices.
To overcome the problem, the Telangana government has proposed to remodel its 3,000 procurement centres under Indira Kranthi Patham programme and those that are run by primary agricultural cooperative societies on the lines of National Commodities & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) to lift stocks for public distribution system.
Otherwise, the government felt there was no way it could procure rice on such a big scale to meet the requirement of PDS in the absence of the levy system.
The NCDEX officials have already studied how best to implement their technical know how in IKP centres and PACS.
Ravi Reddy, N. Rahul, &
B. Chandrashekhar
