Hyderabad, Jan. 10 -- All Telangana government employees will receive an accident insurance cover of Rs 1.02 crore, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka announced on Friday, January 9.

In a statement, he said that the government has completed consultations with leading banks to provide the insurance cover.

"We have already begun implementing this for Singareni, TRANSCO [Telangana Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited], SPDCL [Southern Power Distribution Company Limited], NPDCL [Northern Power Distribution Company Limited] and GENCO [Telangana State Power Generation Corporation] employees. So far, 38,000 regular Singareni employees and 71,387 employees working in the power department have been covered under the insurance...