Differences between the ruling TRS leaders — Karimnagar legislator Gangula Kamalakar and Mayor S. Ravinder Singh — has come as blessing in disguise for the poor students studying in various government schools and orphanages.
Though the ruling party leaders have a poor record in providing basic amenities like proper roads, sanitation, drinking water facilities etc. for the development of the town, they sure are ahead in social service programmes to appease the people, like helping students with notebooks free of cost.
In the last academic year, Mayor S. Ravinder Singh provided the government school students preparing for the SSC examinations with evening snacks during the special study hours. The programme was done with the support of philanthropists. During that period, he also asked people not to greet him with shawls and bouquets, and rather give him notebooks, pens and pencils that could be distributed to the students at government schools.
Accordingly, he launched the programme in the beginning of the new academic year last month and distributed notebooks to the students in all the government schools of the town.
Similarly , the local legislator also encouraged a voluntary organisation in launching the distribution of notebooks to students, by making a donation. The legislator even participated in the distribution of notebooksin the government schools of his Assembly segment along with the voluntary organisation.
Both the legislator and the Mayor seem to be competing to conduct the programmes of distribution of notebooks, when incidentally both of them invited Minister for Finance Eatala Rajender, while public issues lay unattended. In one instance, the legislator had even gone ahead and announced distribution of Spoken English books to the students to improve their language skills. Accordingly, he got the Spoken English books published and plans to distribute it at all the government schools in his Assembly segment.
Appreciating the noble gestures of the legislator and the Mayor, Lok Satta Udyama Samstha district president N Srinivas opined that the elected representatives should accord priority to solving the long pending issues of the town such as beautification measures which were progressing at snail’s pace, completion of underground drainage, maintenance of sanitation and roads etc. There are several organisations to take up social service programmes, he said, reminding them that they were elected to strive for the all round development of the town.
