Road connectivity improves

Road connectivity is improving gradually in the villages and connectivity to the district head quarters from Mandal head quarters with state government taking up laying new roads on priority in the recent past in the Adilabad district of Telangana.

One can see the improving road connectivity in the interior areas of Adilabad and Sirpur (T) Assembly constituencies.       

New culverts and bridges are being constructed in place of existing low-level bridges in the tribal areas in Adilabad and Sirpur (T) Assembly constituencies and also in village in Chennur Assembly constituency where the existing the low-level bridged used to be submerged in the flood waters.

New internal roads are being laid in the villages and also connectivity to mandal head quarters and also connecting mandal headquarters to district head quarters.     

The flood situation affects the transportation to the interior villages located in the district. Roads and bridges sanctioned under Panchayatraj and R&B departments with the estimated cost of Rs 2,930 cores in the district.

Of the total, Rs 1,700 crore had been sanctioned for works under R& B and Rs 1,230 crore under Panchayatraj in the district.  

Of the total Rs 1,700 under Roads and Building department, as many as Rs 514.3 crores towards 21 road works between Mandal headquarters to district headquarters, Rs 284.77 crores for 22 road works of converting the single road to double roads, Rs 418 crore for 86 new bridges and Rs 122.2 crores for 54 repairs works in the district.

Proposal are being prepared for laying a road for the distance of 80 km between Bejjur to Chennur to improve the road connectivity in between the most backward mandals in eastern part of the district.

New blacktop (BT) roads had been laid in the Sirsanna, Guda and Rampur, Akoli, Deepaiguda, Pippalgoan , Landa Sanghi , Arli, and Neerala village in Jainad mandal and some of the roads are under progress in the same mandal. Double road is being laid between Adilabad to Bela via Jainad.  

Double road was laid from Both X roads to Boath town enabling the free flow of transportation in Boath Assembly constituency.

‘Laying new roads are visible development in the villages these days in some mandals and that is why the ruling TRS government is giving much priority to the roads and added that road connectivity brings development to the interior villages’, a senior political leader of the district observed.

Digital India mania on FB in rural Telangana

Thousands of netizens have been changing their Facebook profiles replacing with tricolors of National flag and Digital India for the last two days extending their support to Digital India concept and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Even Facebook users in the rural areas and small towns of this Adilabad district of Telangana also changed their profiles’ background using ‘fb.com/ supportdigitalindia’.

Both Mark Zuckerberg and Narendra Modi had changed the background of their Facebook profiles just after their meeting and now it has gone viral on Facebook.

Union Ministry of Information and Broadcast has also changed the background of its page on Facebook and replaced with tricolors.         

Digital India concept came up for discussion during the interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Zuekerberge at Facebook office in USA during Narendra Modi’s visit.

Earlier, the central government promoted the concept of the Swach Bharath and now Digital India through social media networking sites.

Sanjeev Gaddam of interior Kubeer mandal of this district said ‘he changed his Facebook profile to support the digital India concept being promoted by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi while recalling that Zeckerbrge first changed his profile to support the Digital India.

He said the changing the Facebook profile indicates the aspiration of the young generation even from rural areas and small towns in Adilabad district to be part of digital India and looking for opportunities. It is noticeable that people in the information technology are more inclined to change the background of their Facebook profiles.

However, changing his profile to support Digital India by Zuckerberg has snowballed into a controversy as it was allegedly linked to Facebook’s Internet .org programme. 

Demand for welfare hostels in urban areas

There was a huge demand for admissions in BC welfare hostels for boys and girls in district headquarters, divisional head quarters and major towns but seats are not being filled up in BC welfare hostels in rural areas in the Adilabad district of Telangana. The same trend is reported from all the districts in the state.

It is also an indication that students are shifting to nearby towns for schooling and college studies in the Adilabad district. In view of this, state government is diverting the seats in hostels in Rural to hostels in urban areas where there is a good demand for the seats.      

A good number of sanctioned seats were lying vacant in the BC welfare hostels located in rural areas due to poor facilities and lack of supervision and majority of the hostels were running rented buildings. This was found during inspection by Dr T. Radha, principal secretary BC Welfare Department, on July 23, 2015.

It was found that there were only 3,020 maintained strength against 4,282 sanctioned strength at 50 BC pre- matric welfare hostels for boys and girls for the year 2015-16 by end of the July,2015 in the district.

There was zero strength at Bejjur and Dasturabad BC welfare hostels for boys and girls respectively against 67 and 80 sanctioned strength and poor admissions in 14 hostels in rural areas out of 50 total hostels in the district. Students strengthen is low in hostels in rural areas when compared t urban areas.

Principal Secretary, BC welfare Dept Dr T. Radha directed to the District BC welfare officers to take steps with the consent of the local MLAs to divert the sanctioned seats in BC welfare hostels in rural areas to hostels in urban areas where there was good demand for the seats from the college students and post matric students.

She also advised the District BC welfare officer to see the possibility of merging nearby hostels and divert the excess boarders strength to hostels in urban areas.