Telangana to construct integrated market in every Assembly constituency

KCR said that the Monda Market in Secunderabad, constructed about 120 years ago, had impressed him as it had been designed and built in consonance with health guidelines even in those days.

He said the market presents sellers seated at a height which is essential as the elevation prevents harmful bacteria from finding their way into the vegetables and meat.

At Monda Market, meat is also sold but one would not get any smell at all. In fact, the meshes in the stalls where meat is sold were set up more than 100 years ago, but they are still serving the purpose.

Markets to have features of Monda Market

He said he had told the district collectors that the integrated vegetable and meat markets in districts should have features of the Monda market.

Acting on my instructions some collectors constructed market yards very well and the one in Narayanpet takes the cake.

The government was planning to have at least one such market in every Assembly constituency, he said and pointed out that at each market, children’s cages are also being proposed so that the parents could leave their children there to play as they purchase vegetables and while leaving they could pick up their children

Referring to the menace of the spurious seeds, particularly in the erstwhile Mahabubnagar district, the chief minister said that the government was dealing with the criminals with an iron hand.

“We have been sending them to jail under the Preventive Detention Act.

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Basti devkhanas relief to poor

Earlier, Health Minister T Harish Rao said that basti davakhanas had come as a great relief to the poor, Basti davakhanas were not meant to be an apology for full-fledged hospitals.

At basti Davakahans, even lipid profile and thyroid tests were being done. They had brought down the load of outpatients at Osmania, Gandhi, Niloufer, and fever hospitals.

By the end of March, as many as 134 tests would be done at Basit Davakhaans, said the minister.

He added that they were dispensing 156 varieties of medicines free of cost to the poor, and were benefiting an estimated one crore people.

He also promised to fill 1,540 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers’ posts in the Municipal Corporation area soon.

The minister made an appeal to the state Governor to give her assent to the Universities Recruitment Bill pending with her.

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In reply to a question from CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, he said that the state government was ready to fill the vacancies in the universities. He said he was urging the governor again to clear the bill in the larger interests of the universities and the cause of education.

In another development, BRS MLC Banda Prakash was elected unopposed as the deputy chairman of the Legislative Council.

After his election, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Ministers Talasani Srinivas Yadava, Gangula Kalamalkr, and Srinivas Goud were among those who wished him a rewarding term.

The chief minister recalled Prakash playing a vital role in the Telangana movement and said that Prakash was from an ordinary family and worked hard for the welfare of the Mudiraj community.