Covid surge: Forest department to rush 1000 tonnes of firewood to crematoriums in Telangana
After selling the wood to the paper mills, the Corporation will be left with 1,000 tonnes of wood and this will be provided to the cremation grounds.
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Pyres of Covid and suspected Covid victims burn endlessly at the ESI cremation ground, where around 30 to 40 bodies are being cremated on a daily basis. ( File Photo | S Senbagapandiyan, EPS) By Express News Service
HYDERABAD: The Telangana State Forest Development Corporation has decided to provide 1,000 tonnes of forest wood to the cremation grounds located in Hyderabad and other towns in the state to help them overcome a shortage caused by the brutal second wave of Covid-19.
YSRC Kakinada corporator Kampara Ramesh killed brutally
Updated Feb 13, 2021, 12:37 am IST
Gurajana Chinna ran the corporator over with his car multiple time in drunken rage at a car washing centre in Valasapakala village
Kampara Ramesh, the 9th division corporator of Kakinada Municipal Corporation, who was murdered on Friday.
KAKINADA: Kampara Ramesh, corporator of ninth division in Kakinada Municipal Corporation, was brutally killed, allegedly by his friend Gurajana Chinna. It is stated Chinna ran the corporator over with his car multiple time in drunken rage at a car washing centre in Valasapakala village of Kakinada Rural Mandal.
The incident occurred at 2 a.m. on Friday. The killing of Ramesh has sent shock waves in political circles of Kakinada city. Agriculture minister Kurasala Kannababu, Kakinada city MLA Dwarampudi Chandrasekhara Reddy and Kakinada mayor S. Pavani are among those who have expressed their condolences over the death of Ramesh.
Vivek Yadav takes over as Collector
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Vivek Yadav assuming charge in Guntur on Thursday.
Vivek Yadav, an IAS officer of the 2008 batch, took over as Collector and District Magistrate of Guntur on Thursday. Mr. Yadav was greeted by Joint Collector (revenue), A.S. Dinesh Kumar, Joint Collector, District Revenue Officer Chandrasekhara Reddy and Administrative Officer Mallikarjuna Rao.
In an informal chat with the media, Mr. Vivek Yadav said that his priority would now be to ensure a free and fair poll in the gram panchayat elections.
Later, the Collector held a meeting with nodal officers and reviewed the work done by different teams like manpower management, training, team and transport management, logistics and material management, model code of conduct, call centre and district resource and reporting team, law and order.