Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said allotment of land and financial assistance being given to private institutions such as Raja Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy Educational Society should not be seen with narrow-mindedness, but taken as an attempt to respect the stalwarts of Telangana and the social work they had initiated.
Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony for construction of a building complex of the society at Budvel in the City on Tuesday, he said that Raja Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy, the former police chief of Hyderabad during the Nizam’s rule, was a social reformer who had taken up the cause of educating poor students from rural areas including girls by establishing educational institutions along with hostel facilities in Hyderabad.
The State Government has allotted 10 acres land and ₹10 crore financial assistance under special development fund for building the facility at Budvel as the present facilities in the City had become congested due to increase in the number of students. The new facility would have an academic building, a hostel complex, career counselling centre, convention hall, an indoor sports complex and an orchard.
Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao offered to allot five more acres of land and more funds, if required, for the new facility.
NRIs offer support
“Several NRIs spoke to me after I announced the allotment of land and money to the RBVRR Educational Society and offered financial contributions for development of the new facility”, he said addressing the gathering that comprised students of the college. About a dozen of Telangana Cabinet ministers and others including several legislators, MPs and industry bigwigs like G.V.K. Reddy and K.I. Vara Prasad Reddy attended.
He also assured them of allotting 1,500 square yards of unused land belonging to the Institute of Preventive Medicine for expansion of the existing girls’ hostel facility in the City.
Stating that several stalwarts of Telangana and their good work was forced into oblivion in united Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister said that many unrelated names were given more prominence in the City.
“People hardly know about Bhagya Reddy Varma who took up emancipation of dalits much before Dr.B.R. Ambedkar did”, he noted.
TS persons ignored
Giving one more example, the Chief Minister said that P. Dharma Reddy of Warangal was the brain behind planning the then biggest housing colony in Asia at Kukatpally and it was named after him initially.
But, for reasons unknown his name was pushed into oblivion and the settlement was popularised as KPHB, the Chief Minister said. Chairman of the society Yedla Raghupathi Reddy presented a report on their activities.
