New Security Arrangements for Andhra CM's Office

By Express News Service - HYDERABAD

Published: 06th May 2014 08:00 AM

Last Updated: 06th May 2014 08:00 AM

Tight security arrangements will be made this week at South H Block in the Secretariat, where the chief minister’s Office of successor Andhra Pradesh state will be located.
Intelligence Security Wing IG MM Bhagawat, along with other officials, visited the block on Monday and directed the officials concerned on the security measures to be taken. Metal detector, outpost for security personnel and other arrangements will be made before June 2.
Meanwhile, the Roads and Buildings department accorded administrative sanction for `1.71 crore for carrying out certain works for providing accommodation on the Secretariat premises for running the Secretariat offices of both the successor sates of Telangana and AP. Orders to this effect were issued by the R and B principal secretary B Sam Bob on Monday.
Two Treasuries:
After the reorganisation of the State, the treasury transactions of the Heads of Department of Telangana will be dealt with within Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad (Urban) Treasuries.
The Director of Treasuries and Accounts proposed to set up a new Headquarters Treasury with the status of the District Treasury on the premises of the Andhra Pradesh Directorate of Treasuries and Accounts for the residuary AP State. The new treasury account will handle:
■ Government receipts collected through physical mode and through cyber treasury.
■ Maintenance of PD accounts of the Heads of Department and corporations of residuary AP functioning from Hyderabad.
■ Payments of pensions, including first payments to the pensioners of residuary AP state retiring from departments and Secretariat of AP State after the appointed day. The functioning of the Andhra Pradesh Headquarters Treasury sanctioned now at Hyderabad shall cease once the State capital is shifted to a location within residuary AP, or as and when the Andhra Pradesh Director of Treasuries and Accounts, Hyderabad, is shifted to a new place in the residuary AP.
COST OF WORKS
■ Rs 59.75 lakh: Texture paint and improvements of elevation of the south side of the North H Block
■ Rs 90 lakh: Construction of ground floor for security building and compound wall near north side of proposed entrance gate
■ Rs 15.50 lakh: View cutters to South H Block (CM chamber and Cabinet hall) from old G Block
■ Rs 6.10 lakh: Tensile fabric canopy structure (portico) roof on north side of South H Block


■  Bifurcation Bonanza for Four Players ■
Hyderabad: Thanks to the division of the State, four players would get the cash incentives announced by the government two years ago. Accordingly, badminton player Saina Nehwal and shooter Gagan Narang will get Rs 50 lakh each, and world Kabaddi players Mamatha Pujari and Nagalakshmi will get `25 lakh each.  It may be recalled that the then chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy announced the cash incentives to the four players in June/July 2012. But, the government did not hand over cheques to them. In the wake of the division of state, the Youth and Sports department finally cleared the file as giving a cash incentive was a commitment made by the combined state. The related file was cleared by the Finance department on Monday.