Our National Election Commission
By Dr.Rao VBJ. Chelikani It is time that the Election Commission of India becomes pro-active to promote better democratic practices on the part of our political class. It is probably one of the very few valiant institutions about which an average voter is not very cynical and whose objectivity, he does not doubt much. It has been, so far, able to protect the citizens’ statutory right to vote freely and fairly. With the introduction of the electronic voting machines with the possibility to visually verify one’s vote, its efficiency has increas…
Religions and Culture in India
With the emergence of an independent and awakened India, its culture is becoming more humanist, pacific, universal and inclusive, bereft of political or religious ideologies. By Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani It would be interesting to understand a phenomenon that occurred very often in history in different parts of the world. We can produce a formula out of it: the higher the sophistication of a culture or civilisation of a nation, the lower would be its capacity to defend itself. Why did the mighty civilisations, so easily, succumb to physically das…
TS RERA Forced to extend deadline for registration a 5th time
Builders disregard advisories to register repeatedly despite the threat of hefty penalties by TS RERA Reflecting the obvious reluctance to be regulated, real estate developers and other players in the real estate sector, has shown a lukewarm response to the call by the Telangana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), to get registered with the Authority. To date applications from only 3100 of the estimated 5000 plus projects in the Telangana state have been received. As a result, the TS RERA has been forced to yet again extend the deadline …
MahaRERA Chairman asks home owners to test TS RERA rules in court
TS RERA organizes 1 st stake-holder workshop By B T Srinivasan Hyderabad, January 19 Quite expectedly, the first stake-holder interaction organized by the Telangana State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), on Friday, 18 January, saw divergent views and focus from developers, promoters and buyers pressing their own standpoints. Significantly, the Workshop convened by the TS RERA was addressed by none other than Shri Gautham Chatterjee, Chairman of the Maharashtra RERA (MahaRERA), on which the TS RERA is modelled. Further TS RERA also use…
Peoples’ engagement in infrastructure planning stressed
Survey points to why city residents should have a say in what their cities look like and better infrastructure execution TT News Network If expert opinion and the results of surveys carried out worldwide are anything to go by public engagement is the missing link in planning and executing public infrastructure in major cities globally. A recent survey of over 10,000 people in 10 global cities has shown that half or more respondents say there are interested but lack opportunities to provide feedback on infrastructure planning and decision-makin…
‘Pavement literacy’ a must for builders, owners, vaastu shastris
We must help planners, builders, architects, vastu shastris , vastu vidwans become “pavement-literate” to guide clients to leave footpaths encroachment free By Professor B. R. Sant* Vastu shastra Ancient Hindu architectural knowledge was a highly developed science more devoted to building of temples, but fairly advanced for dwellings too. Varahamira’s Brihat Samhita is perhaps the oldest Indian (Sanskrit) text that describes vastupurusamandala to plan cities and buildings including roads and pavements. Footpaths are for pedestrians Very m…
It is Survekshan time again!
All participants gear up to put up a better show in the prestigious National level rankings for clean-city tag in the Survekshan With Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri kicking off the World’s largest cleanliness survey - the Swachh Survekshan 2019 on Friday, the die is cast for all actors in the exercise to play their part. The United Federation of RWAs (UFERWAS), body of over 3000 Resident Welfare Associations from Greater Hyderabad area, has accordingly upped the ante this year seeking to increase particip…
Will pedestrians finally have their footpaths?
With the civic authorities resuming the drive to clear footpaths of encroachments perhaps there is still some hope for pedestrians in Hyderabad. With the dust settling on the election trail and elections to the State Assembly now over the city administration seems to have revived its drive to unsettle the footpath settlers in right earnest. The Telangana Today newspaper reports that the Enforcement Vigilance and Disaster Management (EVDM) wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has resumed its drive to clear encroachments …
18th AISCCON Conlcudes Successfully
The All India Senior citizens Confederation’s 18 th Annual National Conference was organized on 29 th and 30 th November, 2018 in Hyderabad hoisted by the Association of Senior Citizens of Hyderabad, with the support of local federation TESCCON and FESCO- T. The conference was organized by patrons, Hon’ble Justice Subhashan Reddy and Sri. Vijaya Rama Rao, Ex- Director, CBI with Organising Committee Chairman Sri. R.N. Mital and co-chairman, Sri. I.M. Bhalla with Sri. T. Hanumantha Rao and Sri. V. Mohan Reddy as Vice- Chairmen. The total n…
CoRWA Updates
Bengaluru Residents’ Associations’ Confederation Ensemble Bengaluru Residents’ Associations’ Confederation Ensemble (BRAE) met on 8.12.2018 and discussed the United Bengaluru’s complaint on lakes, commercialisation of Residential Areas, Bannerghatta-ESZ, Ward Committee meetings, etc. Secretary MAUD reviews Swachh Sarvekshan Preparations Shri Arvind Kumar, On 19 th December Shri Arvind Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary of Municipal Administration and Urban Development ( MA&UD), Telangana State convened a meeting on Swachh Sarvekshan 20…
Telangana Election Watch
Ennikala Nigha Vedika Makes it Mark Assembly Elections-2018 The Ennikala Nigha Vedika (ENV) has been active and proactive whenever Elections are held at State or local level. As usual, the ENV called for a meeting of all the civil society organisations immediately after the issue of notifications for Assembly Elections- 2018. About thirty civil society organisations, some with their units in the districts were present. Thereafter, meetings were held in the premises of UFERWAS and in the Forum for Good Governance to discuss the modalities to be…
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