THE TIMES OF INDIA, HYDERABADWEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 20174 TIMES CITY

BANJARA HILLS: SHODDY REPAIR

WORK BY CONTRACTORS

KUSHAIGUDA: OPEN

TRANSFORMER POSES THREAT

SAVE TREES:On world environment day, an old tree that gave us shade since our childhood was murdered. Thanks to the insensitive electricity department, which cut down the tree near Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital. I request the power department to be more sensitive towards such trees which stand as an obstacle in power lines. —Vamshee Ramaraju

SUNSHINE MOMENTS: It’s not only garbage and bad roads that Citizen Reporters can capture and write about. You can send us pictures and text

about moments of celebration in your neighbourhood, acts of social service and even interesting glimpses of city life

VIDYANAGAR:GREEN MURDER

REPAIR THIS: After my post in these columns last week, shoddy repair work has been done on a patch of the road. When I told the contractor why he is not completing the job, he told me it’s not his responsibility and someone who does cement work will do it. I request the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to ensure that quality repair work is conducted. — Sandeep Chatterjee

LURKING DANGER: The photo clicked at Kushaiguda industrial area shows how electrical transformers are not covered with panel boards. Neither there is fencing around the transformer. I request the authorities to cover such open transformers before the onset of monsoon to avoid danger from power fluctuations. —Rajesh Vamsharaj

ANAND NAGARCOLONY: BAD ROADS

BUMPY ROAD: The shoddy restoration work by the Water Board and power utilities has left gaping holes on roads and has made walking and driving on such roads a nightmare in Anand Nagar Colony. I request authorities to immediately conduct repairs. — Suresh Subramanium

TATA Projects, one of India’sfastest growing and mostadmired infrastructurecompanies on Tuesdaylaunched Green Thumb – aninitiative to enhance thegreen cover across thecountry. Green Thumb 2017,is in continuation to TATAProjects’ previous year’sinitiative wherein it aimed toget 10,000 people to pledgeto plant a sapling on theirbehalf.

GHMC inspectsrestorationDr B Janardhan Reddy,commissioner, GHMCdirected the engineeringofficials of the GHMC andHMWS&SB to expedite therestoration works keeping inview the onset of monsoon.Officials of the departmentmade a surprise visit toinspect the ongoing works.During the visit, the officialsinspected LB Nagar X Roads,Sitara hotel, Chinthal KuntaCheck post, Autonagar,Huda Sainagar colony, etc.

Ex-judge laudsgovt’s effortsJustice Kailash Gambhir, aretired judge of Delhi HighCourt on Tuesday appreciat-ed the efforts made by thestate government and theNGOs for providing shelterfor urban homeless. Speak-ing at a convergence meet-ing of various line depart-ments today, he asked theofficials to regularly visit theshelters to ensure that theyare run as per the guidelinesof the National UrbanLivelihood Mission.

‘GST on texilesunfortunate’President of the TelanganaState Federation of TextileAssociation on Tuesday saidthat the Goods and ServicesTax (GST) imposed ontextiles was unfortunate. Heasserted that textiles wereearlier exempted from GSTand the sudden impositionof taxes would lead to acascading effect on prices,from a consumer’s point ofview.

METRO DIGEST

TATA launchesGreen Thumb

MAILBOX

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Open drains at OGHThere are some open drains in the Osmania

General Hospital, just beside the Afzalgunj police station, which have become a cause of serious concern. They were opened by municipal workers for some repairs recently and have been left unattended since then. For the past 10 days or so they have been in this condition. Patients walk along this path regularly and if anyone happens to accidentally fall into these Nizam era sewer lines, they are sure to suffer grave head injuries. In fact, it can also become fatal and cost someone his/her life. It is in the interest of patients that I sincerely urge the concerned authorities to get this area barricaded immediately, before some untoward incident takes place. — Dr Manonmani Mahadevi

No platform for MMTS at Sec’bad station Lakhs of people in the city are dependent on the MMTS service. Yet, there is no

platform fixed for these trains at the Secunderabad railway station. The railway authorities constantly keep changing the platform, thus causing severe inconvenience to passengers, especially those with luggage and children. I, therefore, request the concerned authorities to please address this issue and allocate a platform for these trains so that passengers availing this service can enjoy a smooth ride. — Satheesh Kumar

Incomplete bridge work needs attention Recently while travelling from Rajendranagar,

through the Chandrayangutta-Bandlaguda Road, I noticed that vehicles are plying through a diversion for more than a kilometre as the authorities are yet to complete the repair work of the culvert and bridge at Bandlaguda. This small work has been left unattended for the last couple of years, thanks to complete lack of initiation by local leaders. The road is full of dirt and dust, which results in severe pollution and affect locals. The diversion also leads to added loss of fuel and time for road users. I request the authorities to at least take up the left over work now and immediately complete it so that the health and time of people here can be saved. — P Narahari

WEATHER

Sunrise:Thursday : 05:41hrsSunset:Wednesday: 18:49 hrsMoonrise:Wednesday: 16:14 hrsMoonset:Wednesday : 03:26 hrsForecast: Generally cloudy sky,one or two spells of rain orthundershowers likely. Maximumtemperature to be around 38C Relative humidity: 32%RainFall: Trace

Maximum39.1°

Minimum23.4°

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Hyderabad: The HyderabadHigh Court, which earlier ap-pointed its judicial registrarto probe alleged illegal struc-tures that came up at Devata-lagutta near Balapur inRanga Reddy district, on Tu-esday directed the authoriti-es to furnish copies of the re-gistrar’s report to the rele-vant parties in the case andposted the case to two weeksfor a full-fledged hearing.

The court earlier directedrevenue, HMDA and munici-pal officials to stop all const-ructions, including those be-ing built by a realty firm ‘Pri-de India Builders’.

The bench of Acting ChiefJustice Ramesh Ranganat-han and Justice T Rajani re-

sumed the hearing in this PILfiled by Namram Reddy of De-vatalagutta ParirakshanaSamiti seeking protection of150 acres of government land.

The bench constituted acommittee to inquire into thematter and made its judicialregistrar as the head of thiscommittee. The report con-firmed that huge amount of il-legal structures have comeup in the government land. YRama Rao, the counsel forHMDA said that they too haveacross several irregularities.The bench in its earlier hea-

ring questioned the inactionof the officials even in themidst of such huge construc-tion activity taking place ongovernment land. Several la-youts too were found to be pa-tently illegal. Petitioner’s co-unsel PSP Suresh Kumar ar-gued against regularisationof these unauthorised struc-tures. As many as 450 buyersare being shown on recordnow and any lenience to-wards them from the authorities would only servethe purpose of the conmen,he said.

On Tuesday, some partiesappeared through their counsel and said that the petitioner has unnecessarilyincluded non controversialsurvey numbers in the casethat resulted in undue hard-ship to them. The bench so-ught a reply from the officialson this contention. The peti-tioner contended that the en-tire extent in survey num-bers 78, 79 and 80 fall underconservation zone where noconstructions are to be per-mitted.

How were these construc-tions permitted, how werethe plots allowed to be sold,and what was the state doingall these years are matters ofconcern. The bench had inApril directed the HMDAalong with the Badangpet Na-gar Panchayat, under whosepurview this area falls, to en-sure that none occupies theconstructions in the meanti-me. The case will be up for he-aring again within two we-eks.

Next HearingIn Case AfterTwo Weeks

HC seeks registrar’s report onillegal structures at Balapur

HC decides to hold a full-fledged hearing on Devatalagutta constructions

HC registrar confirms irregular constructions

HMDA too admits there are illegal layouts in govt land

Villas have been raised by a realty firm in govt land

Now an entity Devatalagutta protection committee has come up to fight illegalities

DEVATALAGUTTA CASE

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Hyderabad: A local courton Tuesday granted poli-ce the custody of Balana-gar sub-registrar and twoother accused in the landregistration scam.

The accused were ear-lier arrested by Cybera-bad police in connectionwith the scam.

Assistant commissio-ner of police (Balanagar)T Govardan Reddy saidthat the local court allo-wed eight days custody ofMohammed Yousuf, sub-registrar of Balanagar,while the two middlemen— Mohammed Mubra-buddin and advocateKrishna Reddy - will be intheir custody for four da-ys.

The police soughteight days custody of the

trio. The sub-registrarwas arrested for transfer-ring 607 acres of govern-ment land to private indi-viduals.

Meanwhile, the petition moved by Miya-pur police for the custodyof Kukatpally sub-regist-rar Rachakonda SrinivasRao and Trinity Infra di-rectors Parthasarathiand PVS Sharma is expec-

ted to give its ruling on Wednesday.

The officials duringthe investigation foundthat Trinity Infra was re-gistered in New Delhi inlate 1990s and not in Hyderabad.

The police are expec-ting the registrar of com-panies (RoC) to share allthe records pertaining toTrinity Infra. The investi-gators clarified that Tri-nity Infra did not operatelike a shell company.

“They have been filingincome tax returns, annu-al general meeting (AGM)resolutions and other re-levant statements to thegovernment agencies.One of the directors of thecompany is the relative ofa senior IAS officer in Te-langana,” said sources inthe police department.

Miyapur scam: Cops getcustody of sub-registrar

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hyderabad:The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) has questioned the ‘unnatural si-lence’ of the TRS government on the Miy-apur land scam where it said serious alle-gations were made against governmentofficials along with the deputy chief mi-nister and other ministers. The party de-manded a CBI probe into the scam on thegrounds that it involves over ̀̀ 1lakh crore.

In a statement, BJP spokespersonKrishnasagar Rao said both the BJP andthe people are surprised at the ‘unnaturalsilence’ of chief minister K Chandrasek-har Rao on the scam. “Governments elec-ted by people in a democracy are accoun-table and hence need to explain and clari-fy. Especially, when people suspect theirown government’s involvement in an un-precedented land scam such as this one.The CM being dead silent on this massivescam can actually strengthen the accusa-tion that senior ministers in this govern-ment are complicit in this scam. In oneway, the chief minister is accepting thecomplicity by not trying to even defendhis government and his ministers,” thespokesperson said. TNN

BJP wants CBI toprobe Miyapur

land scam

Hyderabad: Incidence ofHepatitis B and C in the city ison a rise, warn gastroentero-logists and hepatologists.While this has been a trend forthe last few years, the city is re-porting most of these casesfrom its peripheral rural andsuburban belts, experts say.

“This is caused throughblood transfusions, unscree-ned blood, surgical procedu-res due to unsafe practices anduse of unsterile needles by in-travenous drug users,” saidDr K Soma Sekhar Rao, chiefof gastroentrology and hepa-tology, Apollo Hospital. Thatapart, unsafe sexual practicesare also to be blamed for the in-creasing incidence in ruralareas.

Both the diseases are blo-od-borne viruses and oftenstay undetected for years andmany chronic cases coming tothe fore hint that the infectionhad stayed for a long time befo-re manifesting. Hepatitis Band C are both silent killers asthey do not show any symp-toms until it reaches an advan-ced stage, doctors add. “Withincreasing incidences of bothacute and chronic infections,viral hepatitis infection is

emerging as a major healththreat, Hyderabad and otherparts of Telangana and Andh-ra Pradesh are now facing a ri-sing burden of the twin disea-ses — Hepatitis B and Hepati-tis C. Aggravating the threat isthe fact that unlike HepatitisAand B, there is no vaccine yetto prevent hepatitis C whichcan lead to chronic liver disea-ses if not treated in time,” ad-ded Rao.

Although extensive rese-arch hasn’t been conducted to

suggest exact numbers, ex-perts peg the incidence of He-patitis C at two per cent in ge-neral and up to 15 per cent intribal areas surrounding thecity and across the state.

Also, experts believe thatthe increasing numbers aredue to the increase in detec-tion of cases due to viral scree-ning being taken up at variouslevels. While the commonlyfollowed test for the virus doesnot detect early cases (betwe-en 3 and 6 weeks), the nucleic

acid assay test can detect earlycases too. “All blood banksshould follow the nucleic acidtest to ensure early diagnosis.Also for dialysis the virustests are hardly run, especial-ly when patients opt for cent-res offering dialysis at chea-per rates, it leads to many ca-ses of contracting the virus.Before every dialysis procedu-re the tests should be run,”suggested Dr Govind Verma,gastroenterologist and hepa-tologist, Pace Hospital.

Hepatitis B, C on rise in city: Blameit on unsterile syringes, unsafe sex

DEADLY TENTACLES SPREADSYMPTOMS

It has no symptoms but people may experience the following

Dialysis

Bloodtransfusion

Unsafe sexual practices

Dentalprocedures

Endoscopicprocedure

Mother to child during pregnancy Hepatitis B

Pain areas: In the abdomenPain types: Can be mildWhole body: Fatigue, feeling tired, loss of appetite, or malaiseGastrointestinal: Fluid in the abdomen or nauseaSkin: Web of swollen blood vessels in the skin or yellow skin and eyesAlso common: Dark urine, itching, or swelling

Hepatitis cGastrointestinal: Bleeding, bloating, blood in stool, fluid in the abdomen, or nauseaWhole body: Fatigue, feeling tired, or loss of appetiteAlso common:Bleeding, web of swollen blood vessels in the skin, or weight loss

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Hyderabad: The Greater Hyde-rabad Municipal Corporation(GHMC) is toying with the ideaof mandating a vermicompostunit in every hotel, function hall,big apartments and also gatedcommunities. GHMC mayorBonthu Rammohan said theidea behind the proposal is to re-duce environmental pollutionand also promote usage of ma-nure at households.

On Tuesday, the mayor inau-gurated a biodigester at a privatehotel in Habsiguda which produ-ces manure and organic fertili-zers out of the hotel waste. Anot-her hotel at Abids is to set up theunit in a week's time. Later, spea-king at the Telangana Hotels As-sociation meeting, Rammohansaid the municipal corporationwould try to provide the vermi-compost unit at a subsidised pri-ce to hotels and apartments un-der the Swachh Bharat missionor other government schemes.

The mayor said every day,4500 metric tons of garbage is be-ing generated everyday in theGHMC limits of which morethan 1,000 metric tons waste isbeing segregated as dry and wet

separately. The GHMC is one ofthe few municipal corporationsin the country that has provideda two bin system to its house-holds for segregation of dry andwet waste. In all, 44 lakh bins we-re provided. Now, the Centre hasinstructed all the 4,041municipa-lities in the country to imple-ment the two bin system as is be-ing done by the GHMC. Privatecorporates such as Godrej andITC as well as Non-Governmen-tal Organizations and Self HelpGroups have been working tobring about awareness amongthe people on segregation of was-te. The GHMC has provided 50Dry Resource Centres for segre-gation purpose, the mayor said.

“The cost of a vermicompostunit is around ̀̀ 2.5 lakh for a 50 kgunit being used by hotels. The In-dian Institute of Chemical Tech-nology (IICT), which providedthe technology, has been asked tocome up with small units of ca-pacities ranging from 5, 10 and 20kg for households at lesser pri-ces. The vermicompost unitswould not only help the corpora-tion to reduce the cost of trans-portation of waste, but will alsogenerate bio-gas and manure,”Rammohan said.

Now, vermicompostunits mandatory athotels, apartments

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Hyderabad:The BJP govern-ment at the Centre has beenreleasing funds to states irre-spective of the party which isin power, Union minister ofstate for home Hansraj Gang-aram Ahir said. According tohim, the BJP government hadreleased several thousandscrores of rupees for variousschemes in Telangana in thepast three years.

Speaking at a public mee-ting organized by the party atEast Anandbagh on the comp-letion of three year’s of theNDA government at the cent-re, the union minister saidthe Centre had taken up mea-sures for reopening of Fertili-zer Corporation of India atRamangundam at a cost of`̀5,200 crore. He said food

parks at Khammam and Mah-bubnagar and a textile park atWarangal have been san-ctioned and measures havebeen initiated to reopen IDPLand set up a steel factory atBayyaram.

Hansraj said after the BJPgovernment came into power,the reputation of the countryacross the globe reached newheights by dealing with terro-rism with an iron hand . “Un-der the leadership of Narend-ra Modi, the country exportshave gone up and importsfrom China have dwindled,”he said.

BJP state president K Lax-man said the aim of the mee-ting was not to eye votes, butto spread awareness amongthe people about the schemesbeing implemented by theBJP government.

3 yrs of Modi: BJP saysT received big funds

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The petition moved bypolice for the custodyof Kukatpally sub-registrar RachakondaSrinivas Rao and Trin-ity Infra directorsParthasarathi and PVSSharma is expected togive its ruling onWednesday