Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 11 HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW DESPERATION AND BSE BROKERS' FORUM PRAISES MKT TOKYO OLYMPICS TO BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH DEPRIVATION OPEN JULY 23 NEXT YEAR BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN PARTICIPANTS FOR SMOOTH FUNCTIONING VIJAYAWADA ` *LATE CITY VOL. 2 ISSUE 169 HYDERABAD, TUESDAY MARCH 31, 2020; PAGES 12 3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable HEROINE YET TO BE FINALISED FOR MAHESH'S NEXT { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com CM KCR imposes heavy salary cuts l CM, ministers, MLAs, MLCs take 75% pay cut l For others, salary cuts range from 60 pc to 10 pc TRULY L VENKAT RAM REDDY n HYDERABAD SPEAKING Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday decided to impose heavy salary cuts at all levels Corona crisis has in the government for this brought the month to tide over the present financial crisis on account of best in Modi Coronavirus lockdown. The Chief Minister took the decision after reviewing the financial condition of the gov- 2 ernment with senior officials at Pragathi Bhavan. In the meeting, it was felt that, "The Coronavirus is adversely impacting the State’s economic TS to go for overdraft to pay salaries condition. In this background, the state government has to act he Telangana state government, that had been strict in observing Residents exercise on their balconies following fitness trainers in Nantes as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with caution and foresight”. Tfiscal discipline and had carefully avoided going for overdraft (OD) spread in France, After the high-level review from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) all these years, has been meeting, decisions were taken pushed into a situation now where it is forced to go for OD for the on payment of various salaries. first time to tide away the present financial crisis. Thanks to The monthly salary bill of the countrywide lockdown on account of Coronavirus this month, the #DildarCM state government stands at near- revenue earnings of the state government took a severe beating. Quarantined kin of Corona ly Rs 3,500 crore. State government relies on earnings mainly from excise, GST, VAT, KCR wins The government is expected property registration, transport departments etc.. However, all these to save nearly Rs 2,000 crore collections have ground to a halt due to the lockdown. Chief Minister with the pay cuts. These cuts K Chandrasekhar Rao too revealed the dire financial condition of his patient dies of ‘heart stroke' hearts amid will be on the gross pay, and not government while addressing a press conference at Pragathi Bhavan the basic pay. on Sunday when he said that the government suffered a loss of Rs l Tense moments as family members, authorities fight over body Corona crisis 12,000 crore this month on account of the lockdown. n 2 PNS HYDERABAD The salary cuts will be PV KONDAL RAO ed Covid-19 positive and had as follows: n WARANGAL been isolated for treatment. Chief Minister K Mizoram CM n The Chief Minister, mem- Corporation Chairpersons, of their salary, or in other The family members of the Chandrasekhar Rao’s fervent asks Modi, Shah bers of the State Cabinet, representatives of Local Bodies words, a 75 per cent cut. There were tense moments in deceased were also among appeal to migrant workers to MLCs, MLAs, State will take home only 25 per cent 2 Nizamabad town on Monday those quarantined. The isolat- stay home on Sunday has to check racial morning with tempers run- ed person has history of trav- drawn the attention of the slur on ning high as a quarantined rel- el to Delhi for a religious pro- nation. With the failed model ative of a Covid-19 positive gramme and all those who had of others states, several citi- Northeast Postpone patient allegedly died of 'heart met him were subsequently zens and bigwigs, and also people TS govt confirms six stroke' after his family mem- quarantined. Parliamentarians wanted Class X exams, bers were advised to shift him Seeing the entire family other states to take a stand to an advanced centre in quarantined, the elder one, like KCR. deaths to Corona orders HC Hyderabad for treatment. who hails from Nizamabad, Even BJP leaders and 5 PNS n HYDERABAD and in Nizamabad and also PNS n HYDERABAD Matters got exacerbated complained about heart pain. Parliamentarians are praising Gadwal over the last few days. when the authorities stepped to do with the sudden demise He was initially brought to the the Telangana CM. In a frightening development, Special teams, monitored by Taking into consideration in and prevented the bereaved of the head of their family, district hospital. The doctors Union minister Giriraj the Telangana state Medical the district Collectors have the orders issued by the family members from taking police and health officials tried there advised the family to shift Singh, sharing a video, said, and Health Department on identified the people who National Disaster possession of the body of the to prevent the family from tak- him to Hyderabad for treat- “Chief Minister of Telangana Monday reported six deaths came in contact with the Management Authority to deceased. ing possession of the dead ment. Meanwhile, the elderly is winning hearts in the midst due to Coronavirus. deceased, and they have been extend the lockdown till April The 62-year-old person who body. There was a scuffle person succumbed, official of crisis. Thank you In a statement, the Medical shifted to various hospitals. 14, 2020, the Telangana High allegedly died of stroke was between the family members source said. Telangana CM”. and Health Department said They are being tested and Court on Monday directed among those quarantined, and the authorities for a brief The authorities initially pre- Dr Sanjeev Balyan, that the deceased were among treated. the State Government to including family members of period. Finally, the body was vented the family from taking Minister of State Animal those who had attended a The state Government has postpone all exams in subject the person who had tested handed over to the family away the body from the hos- Husbandry appreciated the religious prayer meeting from requested all the people who papers of the Class X sched- Covid-19 positive. Although members. pital. Later, as the family way KCR reassured the pub- March 13 to 15 at the Markaz participated in the religious uled to be held from March the family members claimed Enquiries revealed that the obtained clearance, the body lic on migrant labour. in Nizamuddin area of Delhi. prayer meeting in Delhi to 31,2020 to April 6, 2020 till that coronavirus had nothing deceased person's relative test- was handed over to them. 2 Some of those who attend- inform the officials concerned the situation normalises. ed the prayer meeting were as the area is deemed an infec- A division bench of the from Telangana and were tion hotspot. The government High Court comprising infected. While there is no would conduct tests and offer Justice MS Ramachandra Rao official announcement on the treatment to those how require and Justice K. Laxman passed Telangana now victim of Infodemic number of people who attend- it free of cost. these orders while dealing ed the meeting, it was con- In a late night announce- with a filed by city based PNS n HYDERABAD firmed that the virus claimed ment from Telangana CMO, activist M. Bala Krishna urg- Ways to curb Infodemic - Digital Media Wing, Telangana Govt the life of six of them. While the government also asked ing the HC to issue directions Increasing reports of misinfor- n n n Ind-Ra cuts two patients died in the people to alert the authorities for the postponement of the mation and false news creating Do not forward Never forward any When in doubt Gandhi Hospital, one each they come across any such Class X examinations. confusion among the people any information or n Be information/ post to citizens should check economic passed away in Apollo and people. who rely extensively on social post purported to others without 2 responsible while with official social growth forecast Global Hospitals in Hyderabad media for information, instead be of patients sharing information verifying its media accounts, 2 of the conventional print and infected by the you receive on Digital authenticity websites of the for India to electronic media. Spreading Coronavirus Media platforms to n Admins of Digital Government or the 3.6 pc of fake news, misinformation n and rumours has become so Sharing such others. Exercise Media platforms like news published and India still in local transmission stage prevalent that it has taken dis- information may restraint WhatsApp and legal telecast by PNS n NEW DELHI actions taken, preparedness developed nations having astrous proportions on the violate the privacy of action will be taken if any mainstream print and 8 and updates on COVID-19, lesser population than us lines of a pandemic, not only the individual(s). This is of the member(s) of the Group electronic media Reiterating that COVID-19 is Joint Secretary in the have seen multiple increase," for the Telangana government not just unethical but illegal spread fake news respectively still in the local transmission Ministry of Health Lav he said. but across the world, with stage in India, the Health Agarwal said 92 new cases Agarwal attributed the even World Health Ministry on Monday said it and four deaths due to coro- slow pace of rise in cases in Organisation (WHO) terming people continue to circulate 62 people from Karimnagar, “they are not giving heed to took 12 days for cases of navirus have been reported India to people's participa- this phenomenon an messages stating that a major- Hyderabad, with age and house government’s request to stay TODAY infection to rise from 100 to in India since Sunday, taking tion in strictly following the ‘Infodemic’.