Move to make AP slum-free by 2014

HYDERABAD:

Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy at a review meeting of the department of municipal administration on Sunday said that the
government would soon take up an ambitious and comprehensive plan to make Andhra Pradesh slum-free by 2014.

Reviewing the progress of the works under various urban development
schemes, the chief minister said the government would lay special emphasis on implementation of integrated housing and slum development programme (IHSDP), a centrally-sponsored scheme, under which integrated slum development including drinking water supply and sewerage management, housing, development of roads and solid waste management programme would be taken up.

The CM said that the Centre has so far sanctioned 268 projects to the state with an estimate of Rs 12,523.70 crore. YSR directed the officials to focus on the development of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation as futuristic metropolitan city. He said a decision would be taken on the Metro rail project soon. The CM said that 10 tmc of Godavari water will be brought from Pranahita Chevella at a cost of Rs 3,375 crore. He said the project named Moulana Abul Kalam Hyderabad Sujala Sravanthi has been sent for centre's approval under the JNNURM and it would be implemented within 30 months.

IcfaiTech leaves 1,200 students in the lurch

HYDERABAD: It is finally curtains for IcfaiTech, Hyderabad. The authorities on Monday served notices on the remaining B.Tech students to pack up

and leave. This has come as a final blow to the 1,200 students who had earlier filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking recognition of their degree on humanitarian grounds after the UGC had termed the degree issued by the Hyderabad campus as illegal.

Icfai has a university
in Dehradun and another in Agartala, Tripura. According to sources, the degrees awarded by the campuses at Dehradun and Agartala are recognised by the UGC. “After discovering that Icfai was enrolling students at the Hyderabad campus and then awarding them degrees from either Dehradun or Agartala, the UGC described this practice as illegal,” said sources.