Hyderabad, Feb. 19 -- The Telangana government on February 14 appointed eight civil society members to the Telangana Development Planning Society (TDPS) including noted writer Prof Kancha Ilaiah, activist Nikhil Dey and Prof Bhangya Bhukhya.

The members are part of the TDPS Advisory Committee that is headed by chief minister Revanth Reddy, who is also the planning portfolio, stated the government order (GO). The committee members are: Prof Ilaiah, Prof Shanta Sinha, Prof Himanshu, Sukhdeo Thorat, Nikhil Dey, Praveen Chakravarthy, Prof Bhukya, and Prof Purshotham Reddy.

This is the first time that the Telangana government after the state's formation appointedacademics and activists into an advisory body. The previous Bharat Rashtra Samit...