Date:14/12/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/12/14/stories/2006121407370400.htm

Medak completes 86 p.c. housing target

Sangareddy: Medak Collector B. Venkatesam addressing a meeting of special officers meeting here on Wednesday said that the district had 31,069 houses under different stages of construction out of a set target of 54,808 under Indiramma housing programme. - Staff Reporter

Mid-day meal: Joint Collector's directive

Sangareddy: Medak Joint Collector Vani Mohan has warned the headmasters of Government schools that they will be held responsible for problems arising in the implementation of mid-day meal scheme.

At a review meeting here on Wednesday, she directed the officers to provide eggs twice a week for the children. - Staff Reporter

CPI (M) threatens to occupy lands Sangareddy: Activists of the CPI (M) mandal committee warned the Government that they would be forced to occupy Government lands if available land was not distributed to the poor.

District committee member B. Mallesham who led a dharna at the MRO office here on Wednesday criticised the district administration for handing over assigned land to industrialists. - Staff Reporter

Career guidance centres planned

NIZAMABAD: To bring out the creative talent hidden in children, career and guidance centres will be set up at the village, mandal and the district level. Students will be provided with training in different trades, Collector I.S. Sri Naresh said the district administration was making arrangements to give orientation to students from 8th class to degree level. - Staff Reporter

Two killed in mishap

KURNOOL : Two persons died when a motorcycle on which they riding hit a lorry near Tammarajupalli on the National Highway between Kurnool and Nandyal on Wednesday. One of the deceased was identified as Ramana Sarma.-Special Correspondent

AITUC for job security for women

KADAPA: AITUC district general secretary B. Ramaiah on Wednesday demanded job security to about one lakh women workers in mid-day meals scheme.

He lamented that funds sanctioned for essential commodities remained static for the last four years and sought enhanced grant. The Government has stopped supply of utensils, he said. AITUC would organise a chalo Assembly protest by mid-day meals workers on December 18, he said.-Staff Reporter

Protest against diversion of water

KURNOOL: The supporters of CPI(M), led by district secretary T. Shadrak stormed the Irrigation circle office here on Wednesday protesting against diversion of 10 tmcft water to Anantapur district from Kurnool quota. The protesters stalled the functioning of the office for two hours and raised slogans. Also, they demanded water for rabi crop under KC canal and LLC.-

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DCC leader mourned

KADAPA: The recent demise of DCC general secretary Putha Jyothi Reddy is a grave loss to the Congress, party leaders said on Wednesday.

Addressing a condolence meeting at the DCC office, ZP Chairperson Devireddy Jyothi Reddy and city Congress president T. Sivasankar said Jyothi Reddy had a bright political future. -Staff Reporter

No pay for strikers

HYDERABAD: The Government has declared that the policy of `no work, no pay' will be strictly implemented on December 14 in the wake of the one-day strike call by the struggle committee of Central, State Government and public sector employees. - Special Correspondent

Platinum seized

VISAKHAPATNAM: The city police seized platinum worth Rs.40 lakhs and arrested five persons, in a raid on Tuesday. One of the arrested is an employee of Visakhapatnam Port and one works for Visakhapatnam Steel Plant respectively. - Staff Reporter

2 killed in accident

Sangareddy: Two persons riding a moped died on the spot during the wee hours of Wednesday when an unidentified truck hit them on Sangareddy-Nanded road on the outskirts of New Humnapur near Sivvampet. According to the police the two were searching for a missing person when the accident occurred. - Staff Reporter

Homage to Potti Sreeramulu

HYDERABAD: The State Government has ordered observance of two minutes' silence at 11 a.m. on December 15 in memory of the late Potti Sreeramulu, who laid down his life on that day in 1952 for the formation of Andhra State. - Special Correspondent

Combing intensified

KURNOOL: Armed police intensified combing in Nallamala forest close to Srisailam on the eve of Chief Minister's Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's visit to the temple town on December 16. - Special Correspondent

Civic staff rally

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Municipal Workers and Employees' Union will organise a `Chalo Hyderabad rally' on December 19 demanding salaries to employees of 75 civic bodies who had not been paid for periods ranging from two to 16 months. - Special Correspondent

Weavers plan dharna

HYDERABAD: Members of the Andhra Pradesh Handloom Workers' Association will stage a dharna here on December 15, demanding that the Government solve weavers' problems. - Special Correspondent

Chalo Assembly

HYDERABAD: Government Colleges Contract Lecturers Association has called for a `Chalo Assembly' on December 15 seeking age relaxation and weightage in filling of lecturer posts through the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC). - Staff Reporter