As COVID bodies burn, residents fume
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People living near crematoriums forced to lock themselves up, trees turn brown
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People living near crematoriums forced to lock themselves up, trees turn brown
“Now he will pour diesel on the pyre to make it burn quickly,” says G. Ramulu watching from the terrace of his three-storeyed house in Bapu Nagar. And just as he predicts, a crematorium worker runs with a jerrycan of fuel and sloshes it over the wood pile making the fire roar into the air.
Four other pyres burn simultaneously, and two more bodies arrive in ambulances in quick succession at noon time on Saturday. The trees in the crematorium have turned brown by the continuous burning of corpses of COVID patients.
90% property tax collection from ULBs despite pandemic
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Nine municipalities register 100% tax collection
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Nine municipalities register 100% tax collection
Municipal corporations and municipalities across Telangana have collected 90% of the property tax on demand from 20-odd lakh dwellings despite the pandemic in the last financial year of 2020-21 ending March this year. The 141 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), other than GHMC, had collected about ₹495 crore and another ₹226 crore of arrears, making for a total of over ₹720 crore.
The precise demand for the 20,24,315 properties has been ₹531 crore with arrears coming to ₹268 crore or a total of about ₹799 crore, said Director of Municipal Administration (DMA) N. Satyanrayana on Monday.
Families of Nalgonda Road Mishap Victims To Get Compensation From Telangana Govt Jan 23, 2021, 10:40 IST
The government of Telangana has announced ex-gratia to the families of those killed in a road accident in Angadipeta in Pedda Adiserlapally Mandal in Nalgonda district on Friday.
Energy Minister Jagadish Reddy visited the families of the victims at Devarkonda Government Hospital and announced Rs.3 lakh compensation, 2BHK houses and free education to the children of victims. He assured that the children of the deceased will study in Gurukul and will be provided best education.
A total of nine persons including eight women and an auto driver have been killed when a truck had hit the auto rickshaw in which they were travelling in. All the deceased were farm labourers.