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Hans India
14 minutes ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Speed up construction of houses for poor
Dharmavaram: It is the government's responsibility to provide both house sites and homes to all eligible poor and weavers in the region, said Paritala Sriram, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in-charge of the Dharmavaram Assembly constituency, said on Wednesday. Sriram held a review meeting with officials from the Revenue, Municipal, and Housing Departments to discuss issues raised during the recent Padayatra conducted by Minister Satya Kumar and the ongoing Good Governance programmes held over the past 15 days. The meeting was attended by DE Shankar Lal, AE Chiranjeevi, Municipal RI Shiva Kumar, TPO Alivelamma, Vijaya Bhaskar, TIDCO representative Thirumani, Rajesh, in-charge tahsildar Suresh, VRO Ravi and mandal surveyors, among others. Sriram stated that a large number of public complaints and representations received during the outreach programmes were related to pending house site pattas and non-allotment of houses. He said it was essential to resolve all these issues swiftly and ensure that no deserving beneficiary was left out. He also pointed out several mistakes committed during the previous YSRCP government, such as: cancellation of pattas issued by the former TDP government, failure to show land for new allotments and misuse of land allotted for the poor for real estate purposes. He urged officials to take corrective actions and address every complaint that has come to their notice. He called for speedy completion of houses that are structurally ready up to the base level, and insisted on conducting another field-level verification to finalise an accurate list of eligible beneficiaries.
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Business Standard
13 hours ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Andhra CM meets Sitharaman; seeks Rs 10,000 cr support for various projects
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and sought additional financial support of Rs 10,000 crore for various projects. On his second day of the visit, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief -- a key NDA ally -- highlighted that the state is still facing a deficit of financial resources due to bifurcation, an official release said. Naidu requested the central government to grant an additional allocation of Rs 10,000 crore under the Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) scheme for 2025-26. He sought the release of the second tranche of funds as a grant to Amaravati capital, and appealed to the Union Minister to make up for the revenue deficit faced by the state under the 16th Finance Commission. He submitted a memorandum requesting financial support for various state projects. The chief minister informed Sitharaman that the construction of Amaravati requires a total of Rs 79,280 crore, with works worth Rs 44,351 crore already underway. However, Rs 26,000 crore remains unallocated, the release stated. He emphasized the need for additional funds to complete the capital's development and requested that the second tranche of aid for Amaravati be disbursed as a grant. The chief minister also expressed gratitude to the central government for its support in the construction of Amaravati and the Polavaram project. Union Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu was among other TDP leaders present in the meeting. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Scroll.in
18 hours ago
- Politics
- Scroll.in
TDP asks EC to clarify voter roll revision is not linked to ‘citizenship verification'
The Telugu Desam Party, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre, on Tuesday urged the Election Commission to ' clearly state ' that the special intensive revision of voter rolls is not linked to citizenship verification, ANI reported. In a letter to the poll body, the party also said that such exercises should be conducted with sufficient preparation time and 'ideally not within six months of any major election'. While the Telugu Desam Party did not explicitly mention the ongoing voter roll review in Bihar, the recommendations made by its parliamentary party leader Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu come amid a political row over the exercise in the poll-bound state. The revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar was announced by the Election Commission on June 24. As part of the exercise, persons whose names were not on the 2003 voter list will need to submit proof of eligibility to vote. This means that 2.9 crore out of the state's 7.8 crore voters – or about 37% of the electors – have to submit documentary evidence. The Opposition parties have alleged that the special intensive revision of electoral rolls risked disenfranchising more than 2.5 crore voters, as they may not be able to produce the necessary documents. In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday, the Telugu Desam Party proposed a series of reforms to 'strengthen voter roll management and enhance transparency in the electoral process'. 'The scope of the SIR [special intensive revision] must be clearly defined and must be limited to electoral roll recorrection and inclusion,' the letter said. 'It should be explicitly communicated that the exercise is not related to citizenship verification, and any field instructions must reflect this distinction.' Voters enrolled in the most recent certified electoral roll should not be required to prove their eligibility 'unless specific and verifiable reasons are recorded', it added. TDP MP Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar yesterday giving his party's suggestions to "strengthen electoral roll management and enhance transparency in the electoral process". Writing on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the context… — ANI (@ANI) July 16, 2025 The Telugu Desam Party was part of the National Democratic Alliance from 1998 to 2004 and then between 2014 and 2018. In March 2018, the party quit the alliance, citing the BJP-led Union government's refusal to grant Andhra Pradesh special category status. In 2024, the party once again joined the alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. In its letter, the party, now in power in Andhra Pradesh, also highlighted the southern state's high levels of seasonal migration. It urged the Election Commission to deploy mobile units that accept temporary address declarations to prevent the exclusion of migrant workers and displaced families. Among other recommendations, the party called for the issuance of unique, non-replicable Electors Photo Identity Card numbers and the introduction of Aadhaar-based cross-verification with data privacy safeguards. It also suggested replacing the current ink-based voter verification system with a biometric one. The letter was submitted after a Telugu Desam Party delegation met with the election commissioners in New Delhi on Tuesday. What is the exercise in Bihar? Bihar has 7.9 crore registered voters, according to the Election Commission. Between June 25 and July 26, booth-level officers, or BLOs, in Bihar will go door-to-door to verify if these voters are genuine. If the officers are satisfied, the voters will be re-enrolled to a new voter list by electoral registration officers, or EROs, who are usually officials from the local administration. If not, they will be removed from the voter lists. A draft roll will be published on August 1 and the final roll will be out on September 30. This process is called a special intensive revision and it was last held in Bihar in 2003. The EC's 2023 manual on electoral rolls says that in such a revision, BLOs visit every household in his assigned area and note down 'all relevant particulars of the eligible persons staying in each house' in an electoral card. Based on these cards, which are checked by senior election officials, the EC prepares a written manuscript. 'Thereafter, the manuscript is computerised and a draft roll is prepared and published, inviting claims and objections,' says the manual. 'After disposal of such claims and objections, the roll is finally published.'
The Print
19 hours ago
- Politics
- The Print
Stop telling South Indians to learn Hindi. In Hyderabad, languages coexist without imposition
Despite being well-versed in Hindi, Dakhni still rolls off my tongue when I converse with someone from the North. As South Indians, we don't need to learn Hindi at all. Urdu—once the official language of the erstwhile Hyderabad state—is as close to Hindi-speaking as we get in my city. But in retrospect, I realise that Hindi never really served a purpose for me here. Even the Khadiboli Hindi taught as part of the state school curriculum wasn't of much use. We never spoke it, and Telugu, as expected, dominated conversations outside of Hyderabad. Having grown up in Hyderabad, I never gave much thought to learning Hindi as a first language. Given that people here also speak in Dakhni and Urdu apart from Telugu, Hindi has never been much of an issue—because it doesn't sound alien to us. The migrant workers who come here from Hindi-speaking belts benefit from Hyderabad being a multilingual city. That said, this linguistic diversity doesn't mean that we Hyderabadis undermine Telugu or its importance in any way. So, I was surprised when Andhra Pradesh minister Nara Lokesh and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan both advocated for Hindi—at a time when states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have been opposing its imposition on South Indians. Kalyan and Lokesh are clearly in the wrong. While it is understandable that Lokesh's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Kalyan's Jana Sena are desperate for central funds and will do whatever the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants, this instance marks a new low. South Indian states have their own culture, language, and literary history—none of which is, in any way, secondary to Hindi. The TDP was founded by Tollywood legend NT Rama Rao on the basis of Telugu pride. The fact that one of his family members today has advocated so passionately for Hindi is rather unfortunate. Also read: 11 years after state formation, where's Telangana's history? Govt must fix information gap Why must we learn Hindi? South Indians are always told that they should learn Hindi to be able to converse with North Indians. But will our fellow countrymen be open to learning southern languages? Given that lakhs of migrant workers and even blue-collar employees come down to cities like Hyderabad and Bengaluru, southern languages should be ideally taught in other states as well. The only benefit of us learning Hindi in South India would be for easier conversation with migrant workers, or with office colleagues in the North, if we end up working there. Hyderabad/Telangana, in any case, isn't as homogenous as Andhra Pradesh, where not knowing Telugu would make it difficult for someone to navigate on the ground. Learning Hindi might actually cause us to become distant from our own literary cultures. Just a few weeks ago, I spoke to a trustee of a major Telugu publication. And she told me that the quality of readership and literature in Telugu has come down in the last few decades due to the impact of social media and a decline in interest in serious literature. If that's true, then Hindi will certainly become an additional burden on our future generations. I have nothing against the language, but people need to understand that South Indians won't learn Hindi simply because it's convenient for North Indians. What are we getting in return? Better jobs? Better access? None of it. While I don't agree with the extreme reaction against Hindi in Karnataka and even in Maharashtra of late, I do think we should stringently focus on preserving our regional languages first. Hindi can remain an option for those who wish to learn it. There are so many cities in South India that are multilingual. Take Karnataka's Bidar, for example. Most people I met there can speak Kannada, Marathi, and Telugu because the city borders Maharashtra and Telangana. Hindi can be easily understood there too. But do they really need to formally learn it? There is nothing wrong with learning Hindi, but is there any use for it – especially for South Indians who don't intend to go to the North? A vast chunk of migration from Kerala, for instance, is toward West Asia. Similarly, people from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh generally look to the United States for better career opportunities. If the government really wants to have some sort of linguistic parity, then it should also make North Indians learn southern languages, or at least offer that option. The burden of understanding and learning a new tongue cannot be ours alone. And hopefully, there will be more sense among political leaders to not dig the graves of their own languages. Yunus Lasania is a Hyderabad-based journalist whose work primarily focuses on politics, history, and culture. He tweets @YunusLasania. Views are personal. (Edited by Zoya Bhatti)
Time of India
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Andhra CM meets Mandaviya, seeks ₹563 crore to boost sports infra in state, ET Infra
Advt Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday, seeking ₹538 crore for establishing stadiums and ₹25 crore for hosting the Khelo India Martial Arts Games this who heads the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a key NDA ally, also sought early completion of infrastructure projects under Khelo India in Tirupati, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, and to an official statement, Naidu highlighted efforts to develop a sports ecosystem in Andhra Pradesh as part of its 2024-29 sports policy and sought greater central also demanded the establishment of an international-standard badminton training centre and a national aquatic sports training hub in Amaravati, while proposing water sports training centres along the Krishna river state has submitted proposals for National Centres of Excellence at Nagarjuna University and Kakinada, the statement requested ₹27 crore for upgrading Vijayawada's Indira Gandhi Stadium, ₹170 crore for a multi-sport complex at BR Stadium in Guntur, and ₹341 crore for sports infrastructure development across the further sought sanctioning of additional Khelo India centres in districts for identifying sports talent, and establishment of a Sports Authority of India (SAI) training centre in Tirupati and the Rayalaseema thanked Mandaviya for allotting the Khelo India Martial Arts Games 2025 to Andhra Pradesh and assured that the events would be hosted at top venues in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, and other Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu was also present during the is scheduled to meet Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil on the second day of his visit to the national capital.
