CREDAI in celebration mode

December 24, 2014 12:54 am | Updated May 23, 2016 03:53 pm IST - VISAKHAPATNAM:

Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), Visakhapatnam chapter, will be celebrating its silver jubilee on Thursday. Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, Civil Aviation Minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju and State Ministers K. Narayana, Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu, and Ganta Srinivasa Rao, CREDAI national president Sekhar Reddy and State chairman K. Subba Raju will participate. Starting as an Apartment Builders’ Association founded by Prabhat Kumar who constructed Prince Apartments, the first apartment complex in the city, it was later led by G.K. Narasimha Rao, K. Ramabrahmam, Ravi Godey, K.S. Chandran, G. Jagjeevanbabu, B.R. Raju, B. Rama Rao, and M.V.V. Satyanarayana.

CREDAI Visakhapatnam chapter chairman B. Raja Srinivas at a press conference here gave details of the 25 years work of CREDAI. To give it identity at various levels so as to pursue its work better, the association was merged with CREDAI in 2010. It not only took up various problems of builders, but also kept them up-to-date on technical and other developments, conducted programmes for skill upgrade of workers, Mr. Srinivas said. It also chipped in with service activities by constructing a school at Anakapalle after a cyclone in 1992, completed the building for cobalt therapy unit at KGH and after cyclone Hudhud contributed a total of Rs.50 lakh. On Thursday morning, Mr. Srinivasa Rao will inaugurate the new building of CREDAI at Sivajipalem and Mr. Ayyanna Patrudu will inaugurate plantation at Sivajipalem adapted by CREDAI and flag off a water tanker.

At Novotel, a bulletin of CREDAI and a builder’s guide will be released. A documentary on 25 years of the chapter will be screened.

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