General Awareness, Current Affairs and Telangana State Focus
General Awareness, Current Affairs and Telangana State Focus tests static national facts, recent developments, and Telangana’s polity, geography, economy and power sector. Current-affairs answers must be checked against the latest official sources because appointments, capacities and schemes change.
Telangana static core
Telangana was formed on 2 June 2014 as the 29th state, with Hyderabad as capital. The Godavari and Krishna are the major river systems. Major projects include Kaleshwaram on the Godavari, Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar on the Krishna, and Sriramsagar. Singareni Collieries supplies coal to several thermal stations.
Power sector
TSGENCO generates thermal and hydel power; TS TRANSCO transmits; DISCOMs distribute. Kothagudem, Bhadradri and Kakatiya are TSGENCO thermal stations. NTPC Ramagundam is a central-sector station, not a TSGENCO station.
Worked example
Question: ‘Which of these is a TSGENCO thermal power station?’ Options: NTTPS Vijayawada, Kothagudem TPS, Ramagundam NTPC, Simhadri. Reason: NTTPS is APGENCO; Ramagundam and Simhadri are NTPC; Kothagudem is TSGENCO. Answer: Kothagudem TPS. Elimination by ownership is faster than memorizing every capacity.
Traps
Confusing Telangana with Andhra Pradesh; treating shared Krishna projects as exclusively Telangana; using outdated installed-capacity figures; and guessing current appointments instead of using elimination and recent official news.