CITY
TIRUPATI MONDAY 2 MARCH 2015
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‘CM AWARE OF BJP PLAN OF
MEAGRE ALLOCATION TO AP’
Nehru says Naidu mortgaged Telugus’ self-respect to BJP leadership
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Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) vice-president Devineni Rajasekhar Nehru
on Sunday came down heavily on
the ruling TDP for promoting lift irrigation project on River Godavari
at Pattiseema.
Addressing a news conference at
Andhra Rathna Bhavan here, Nehru
alleged that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was aware of the
Central government’s plans to give
just Rs 100 crore for the prestigious
Polavaram Project, which was announced as the national project. He
said that the Chief Minister and his
party had promised to complete the
project in just four years and wondered how the government would
complete the project with meager
allocation of funds.
He alleged that Chandrababu
Naidu was aware of the BJP’s plans
of minimum allocation of funds.
Congress activists staging a protest in Vijayawada on Sunday denouncing
the raw deal meted out to AP State in the Union Budget for 2015-16
Nehru criticised Chandrababu
Naidu for starting the Pattiseema lift
irrigation scheme with Rs 1,300
crore instead of mounting pressure
on the government to start the work
on the Polavarm Project. He alleged
that the State was losing the
Polavaram Project because of the
Pattiseema lift irrigation scheme.
He said that the Congress would
launch State-wide agitation to get
the Polavaram project. The party
would also ﬁght against the State
government’s plans on the Pat-
tiseema.
He demanded that the government to withdraw the Pattiseema
project and begin efforts for the
Polavaram project.
He lamented that Chief Minister
Chandrababu Naidu had pledged
the self-respect of the Telugu people
to the BJP leadership in Delhi. He
dared Chandrababu Naidu to ﬁght
for these issues in Delhi and asserted that the Congress and the
Left parties would support the government to get the promises fulﬁlled.
Stating that the TDP was founded
by NTR to protect the self-respect
of the Telugu people, he wondered
why Chandrababu Naidu was now
begging on the streets of Delhi.
The Congress leader came down
heavily on the State and the Central
governments for nominal fund allocations to the State in the Central
budget. He said that the budget did
not reﬂect the promises made by the
Congress and the BJP to the State
at the time of passing the AP Reorganisation Bill 2014. He said that the
Congress would expose both the
TDP and the BJP on their dual talk
on promises to the State. The Central government institutions, revenue deﬁcit to the State and the capital building, besides according
special category status were to be
realized, he said and added that the
Congress would ﬁght for these.
City Congress president Malladi
Vishnu, Krishna district Congress
president Kadiyala Butchi Babu,
party senior leaders N Narasimha
Rao, A Srinivas Kumar, P Rajiv
Ratan, Kolanukonda Sivaji, Youth
Congress leader Devineni Avinash
and others were present at the news
conference.
Earlier in the day, the Congress
leaders held a protest at the Lenin
Centre criticising the government
for its failure to allocate due funds
for the State in the Union budget.
Swine flu: Woman
tested positive
Breaking barriers: Woman in a man’s domain
Two suspected
cases in Chittoor
Visakhapatnam: With world becoming a global village, women
breaking stereotypes to change
their own lives and inspiring other
women and girls around them. This
was proved time and again as many
a woman has set an example to others by standing on their own feet
when circumstances forced them
to do so. It’s a never ending tale, as
in this hi-tech age women are
breaking the barriers to enter
male’s domain.
A woman auto driver is in
Visakhapatnam is a classic example.
When you go across the roads of
Gnanapuram Complex, NAD, University you can look at a daring and
dynamic woman, who drives an
auto on the streets in the city. Meet
this female autorickshaw driver S
Narasalakshmi.
Narasalakshmi tied the nuptial
knot with a businessman, but fate
played a cruel game on her as her
husband, who was addicted to alcohol, breathed his last in August
2001. Therefore, Lakshmi and her
son S Nikheel were left in the lurch.
Adding insult to injury, her husband had left debts. So, in order to
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Tirupati: A 48-year-old woman was
tested positive for swine flu on Sunday
after her blood samples were tested
at CMC hospital in Vellore. The
woman was suffering with fever and
severe cold and cough since a few days
and consulted local doctors. When her
illness was not controlled with their
medicines, she consulted CMC hospital where she was confirmed having
swine flu.
According to sources, two more
persons of Chittoor also joined Vellore CMC hospital, fearing to have
contracted swine flu. The doctors said
that whether they were infected with
the disease can be confirmed within
two days after testing their saliva samples.
It was also learnt that CMC doctors
informed the officials of Chittoor district medical and health department
about one confirmed and two suspected cases of swine flu of Tirupati
and Chittoor respectively.
MUTTEVI SRI LAKSHMI
“I draw inspiration
from a female driver
from Guntur, who took
part in Tollywood actor
Nagarjuna’s show
‘Meelo Evaru
Koteswarudu’, and I
decided to ply an auto”
repay the loans she had started sari
business, but she incurred heavy
losses. “I was shattered and thought
of committing suicide, but my 14year-old son had made me to stop
to resorting to the extreme step, she
said.
Talking to this correspondent
about her journey, she said: “While
watching actor Nagarjuna’s ‘Meelo
Evaru Koteswarudu’ show, I came
to know about a female auto driver
Bhavani from Guntur and that inspired me to took up driving.
Lakshmi had decided to ply an
auto. Hence, she approached driver
Shiva, who was living in her street
and convinced him to teach her
driving. Initially, Shiva was reluctant, but her determination to learn
made him to teach her driving. I
S Narasalakshmi plying an auto in Visakhpatnam
started learning driving two hours
every day and was able to drive on
the city roads within a span of 15
days, she said. In one month, Lakshmi was able to purchase an auto
with the help of her relatives.
“Later, it was the RTA officials, who
inspected my driving and gave me
licence.
I received cooperation from the
police and RTA officials in this regard.” “After stepping on to the
roads, unlike other jobs this was not
that easy especially for women, but
compared to my problems, other
seem to very tiny, but it was my sister and my in-laws who supported
me and the support of other auto
drivers made me feel quite comfortable,” she recalled.
Narasalakshmi, who’s now stood
an inspiration to many women in
the city, prepares food and leaves
his son in school and goes to ply the
auto at 9 am and comes back home
by 7 pm. “Notably, she does not take
money from the pregnant women
and the poor.”
Science expo showcases students’ talents
20-feet high replica of World Cup draws attention of all
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Tirupati: The 20-feet high replica of the
World Cup stood as the centre of attraction in the ‘Mega Science Expo-2015’ (science exhibition) organised by Sri
Venkateswara Children’s High School
here on Sunday.
Local MLA M Sugunamma inaugurated
the science exhibition here. Speaking on
the occasion, she lauded the school management for conducting the science exhibition which encourages students to develop creativity. Recalling her school days,
she said that she was fortunate to inaugurate the exhibition.
School Correspondent KS Vasu said
these science exhibitions will expose the
hidden talents in the children and also
these exhibitions are the platforms to
make future scientists like Vikram Sarab-
(L to R) The 20-feet high replica of World Cup prepared by the students; A Soujanya explaining the functioning of LPG gas
leakage detector and Sriteja showing the magic square to students at science exhibition in Tirupati on Sunday
hai, Abdul Kalam etc. He congratulated
both the teachers and students for making
the programme a big success. With the
objective of developing scientiﬁc attitude
in students, he said that they have been
organising science exhibition every year.
Students of Venkateswara School ex-
Srinivasa Kalyanam in
major cities in March
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Tirupati: TTD plans to conduct Srinivasa
Kalyanam in Delhi on March 7 as part of
its campaign to take Lord Venkateswra’s
glory and devotional heritage for display at
all places in the country to give an opportunity to devotees who cannot visit Tirupati.
As part of the same campaign, Srinivasa
Kalyanam will be conducted at four other
cities each in North and South India. Srinivasa Kalyanam will be held at Sri
Venkateswara Degree College grounds in
Delhi on March 7 at 6 pm; on March 8, at
Sri Venkateswara Temple under construction at Kurukshetra in Harayana state; on
March 9, at Ludhiana in Punjab on the Agriculture College grounds at 6 pm; and on
March 10, at Dehradoon in Uttarakhand in
the Srinivasa Kalyana Mandapam at 6 pm;
on March 17.
Srinivasa Kalyanam will be conducted at
the Pamaru in Prakasam district of AP in
the Zilla Parishad school at 6 pm; on March
18, at the Dornala village in Prakasam district in the Zilla Parishad school at 6 pm;
on March 24, at Nagapatnam in Tamil
Nadu at the Everest Educational Trust ofﬁce grounds at 6 pm; and on March 25, at
Courtallam in Tamil Nadu at the Sri
Venkateswara Temple complex at 6 pm.
The Srinivasa Kalyanam OSD Ramachandra Reddy is supervising the
arrangements and preparations for the
event in all the South and North Indian
towns and cities. Artists of Annamacharya
Project will perform Annamacharya Sankeertans also at all the locations of Srinivasa Kalyanams.
hibited about 400 science models of agriculture, animal protection, telecommunications, human body etc. More than
1000 students visited the exhibition.
The Mini Zoo, and hydraulic jack made
with used syringes which can lift goods of
5 kgs attracted many.
BJP leader Bhanuprakash Reddy, TDP
leader Dr Sudharani, School Headmistress MV Krishna Kumari, HR Jyothi,
Administrative Officer B Chandrababu,
Public Relations Officer C Murali, teachers, students and others participated in
the programme.
Civic chief angry over
overflowing drains
Directs officials to remove silt
from drains
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Vijayawada: Municipal Commissioner G Veerapandian on Sunday
directed the VMC officials to prevent overﬂowing of road-side
drains.
The civic chief who inspected several localities in the city, expressed his displeasure over non-clearance of silt removed from
the road-side drains. He said that the overﬂowing of sewage water
at several places in the city was causing severe inconvenience to
road users. He asked the VMC engineering officials to make proposals to construct a side-drain from Bonda Mohana Rao Road
to Mother Teresa Junction and for repairs of culverts in Hotel
DV Manor locality. He held sanitary officials concerned responsible for piling up of the silt. The heaps of silt should be cleared
soon after its removal from drains, he directed. He also reviewed
the progress of underground drainage works. VMC Executive
Engineer Dhanunjay, deputy EE Prabhakar and other officials
accompanied the Commissioner.
‘Pawan Kalyan should
question Modi, Naidu’
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Tirupati:
Chandragiri
MLA
Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy criticised
the meagre budget – 2015 allocations
to the State. Speaking to the media
here on Sunday, ﬁlm actor and Jana
Sena leader, Pawan Kalyan should
question both TDP and BJP on the
injustice done to the State relating to
budget, he said. He felt that the internal feud between Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Bhaskar Reddy
Chandrababu Naidu is causing heavy
loss to Andhra Pradesh State. Modi, who was angry with Naidu
had shown an ‘empty hand’ to the State in the budget, he added.
Bhaskar Reddy criticised that Naidu couldn’t even got back
the ﬂight charges. Earlier the Congress had cheated the public
and now it is the turn of BJP, he alleged.
He suggested the Telugu Desam MPs to stop boasting and do
something to help the public. He criticised that both Central and
State government have cheated the public in budget allocations.
He suggested Naidu to pressurise the Central government for
special status to the AP State.