01-03-2021 The Asian Independent

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KTR reiterates claim of
1,32,899 jobs in six years
Hyderabad : Telangana’s Industry and
Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama
Rao on Thursday reiterated his claim that the
state government filled 1,32,899 posts in various
departments during the last six years.
With the opposition parties disputing his
claim, the minister released the number of
vacancies filled in each department.
The claims and counter claims come in
view of the elections to two graduates’ constituencies
of the Telangana Legislative
Council scheduled on March 14.
In an open letter, the minister alleged that
the opposition parties were resorting to false
propaganda to confuse people. especially
youth
"The Congress and the BJP are concealing
the truth and deliberately spreading false
information about job recruitment in
Telangana since the TRS government came
to power," said Rama Rao, who is also the
Working President of Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS).
He also reiterated that if anyone has any
doubts about our government’s commitment
to job recruitment, they can approach respective
departments and clarify.
KTR, as the minister is popularly known,
said it was sad that even a senior politician
like Jana Reddy tend to spread lies, and challenged
him to provide details of jobs filled
during the 10-year rule of his Congress
party.
He said to curtail false information spread
by senior leaders like Jana Reddy and opposition
parties in front of the media, he is providing
complete details of 1,32,899 lakh job
vacancies that the TRS government has filled
since 2014. "I am presenting all these details
with the sole intention of giving clarity and
providing the right information to the people
of Telangana, especially the youth, who are
being confused and misled by the opposition’s
baseless accusations."
He said the Telangana State Public
Service Commission recruited 30,594
employees while the Telangana State Level
Police Recruitment Board filled 31,972
vacancies.
The Telangana State Residential
Education Institutes Recruitment Board
filled 3,623 posts, the Professor Jayashankar
Telangana State Agricultural University 179
posts, the Acharya Konda Laxman Bapuji
Telangana State Horticulture University 80,
the Director Minorities Welfare 66, Junior
Panchayat Secretaries 9,355, the Ayush
Department 171, TS-GENCO 856, TS-
NPDCL 164, TS-SPDCL 201, TS-
TRANSCO 206, TSRTC 4,768, while the
Singareni Collieries Company Ltd filled
12,500 posts.
KTR said 22,637 employees of the
Electricity Department were regularized.
Hyderabad Water Board filled 807 vacancies,
Telangana State Cooperative Apex
Bank 243 and DCCBs filled 1,571 vacancies.
Filling up of another 6,258 posts is in final
stage.
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JD(U)-RJD rift widens
ahead of Bengal polls
Patna : Differences have emerged between the Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) and the Janata Dal (United) in Bihar ahead of the
Assembly elections in West Bengal beginning March 27.
Elections for the West Bengal Assembly will be held in eight
phases, up from seven last time, Chief Election Commissioner
Sunil Arora said while announcing the poll schedule on Friday.
JD(U) leader and Bengal in-charge Ghulam Rasool Balyawi
lashed out at RJD after it claimed that the JD(U)’s Bengal wing
will soon merge with the party.
Balyawi said: "Jiske ghar shishe ke hote hai woh dusro par
patthar nahi fekte (People living in glasshouses shouldn’t throw
stones at others."
The JD(U) leader further said that the RJD should keep its own
house intact.
His reaction came after Bhai Virendra of the RJD and another
leader of the party claimed that the entire JD(U) unit in West
Bengal will merge with the RJD before the Assembly polls.
Virendra said that prominent JD(U) leaders are likely to meet
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav soon.
Meanwhile, senior RJD leaders -- Abdul Bari Siddiqui and
Shyam Rajak -- are campaigning in West Bengal.
"We do not believe in breaking parties. But anyone is welcome
to join our party," Balyawi said.
Spurious liquor kills 4 in
Bihar, 2 lose eyesight
Delhi riots: HC to hear
pleas on March 26
New Delhi : The Delhi High
Court on Thursday listed for
March 26 a batch of petitions
related to last year’s violence in
the national capital. Communal
clashes broke out in north-east
Delhi in February last year following
clashes between the anti-
CAA supporters and protesters,
which left at least 53 people
dead and around 200 injured.
A Division Bench headed by
Chief Justice D.N. Patel
adjourned the matter and listed it
for March 26.
One of the petitions sought
direction to constitute a Special
Investigation Team (SIT). It further
sought registration of FIR
against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul
Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,
Manish Sisodia, Amanatullah
Khan, Waris Pathan, Akbaruddin
Owaisi and Mehmood Pracha for
alleged hate speeches.
Another petition by Jamiat
Ulama-I-Hind sought to set up a
special investigative team under
either a retired High Court or
Supreme Court Judge.
2nd shipment of Chinese
Sinovac vax arrive in Mexico
Mexico City : The second
shipment of Covid-19 vaccines
from Chinese company
Sinovac has arrived in Mexico
City. Mexican Foreign Minister
Marcelo Ebrard and Chinese
Ambassador to Mexico Zhu
Qingqiao welcomed the vaccines
at the airport on Saturday,
Xinhua news agency reported.
The first shipment of Covid-
19 vaccines from Sinovac
arrived in Mexico City on
February 20.
Mexican health authorities
on February 22 began to vaccinate
older adults with the
Chinese vaccines. Mexico has
been carrying out a vaccination
campaign in stages since
December last year.
Patna : Four persons have
died while two others have lost
their eyesights after consuming
suspected poisonous liquor in
Bihar’s Rohtas district in the last
10 days.
One of the victims, however,
claimed that he had consumed
liquor in the neighbouring
Varanasi which led to his loss of
vision.
Three of the deceased persons
have been identified as Sudama
Ram, Dipak Singh and Satyadev
Singh, while the identity of the
fourth person is yet to be ascertained.
The two persons who
have lost their eyesights have
been identified as Surendra Pal
and Vijay Singh.
"I consumed liquor on
February 15 in Varanasi and
became ill four days later. Now I
have lost my visibility,"
Surendra Pal said.
Local villagers, however, said
that Pal had consumed liquor in
the village and he is changing his
statement fearing the local
police, as he doesn’t want to face
legal action.
Radhika Raman Dubey, an
elderly villager of Kargahar,
said: "Country-made liquor is
available at every village in the
jurisdiction of Kargahar police
station, especially in its western
parts. The police have no control
over this. People openly prepare
country-made liquor and sell it
to the villagers. Dipak Singh and
Satyadev Singh, both natives of
adjoining Bahuara village, lost
their lives after consuming
liquor in the last two days."
"My brother Sudama Ram
had consumed liquor six days
ago. He died two days back after
abdominal pain. We had taken
him to the hospital, but the doctors
couldn’t save his life," said
Jagdish Ram, Sudama Ram’s
brother. When contacted,
Sushant Kumar, the SHO of
Karahgar police station, said:
"We are recording the statements
of the family members of the
victims. All of them belong to
different villages. The reason of
deaths will be ascertained after
the viscera reports come out."
Earlier, five persons had died
after consuming suspected poisonous
liquor in Dargah village
under the Katra police station in
Muzaffarpur on February 18,
while two persons had died in
Majholia village in Gopalganj
district on February 15.