Minister interacts with women at basti sabha

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 6.The questions flew swift and fast. Are the classes held regularly? Do the volunteers come at all? Do you see any change in your life?

The basti sabha organised on the fifth day of the Janmabhoomi programme on Saturday at Sambamurthinagar slum in Sanathnagar Assembly constituency turned out to be a virtual classroom with the Minister for Labour and Employment, Mr. C. Krishna Yadav, wielding the cane as it were.

Mr. Krishna Yadav interacted directly with women folk and had a first hand information about the functioning of the "Akshara Sankranthi" programme. He even had the neo literates read out the Telugu primer as the officials looked on with bated breath. After sometime the Minister turned the heat on the teacher of a Government school in the area. He wanted to know what was being done to check the dropouts. There was also a complaint about the teachers not coming in time and the Minister enquired whether it was a regular feature. "No, it is not a regular feature. There is a delay sometimes when we do not get the RTC bus in time," a woman teacher informed.

Mr. Krishna Yadav encouraged the basti women to reveal the shortcomings, if any, in the functioning of the various departments. When goaded, the complaints came out openly. A person informed the Minister about the storing of furniture in the Government school at Sambamurthinagar by a nearby furniture shop. The Hyderabad Collector, Mr. Rajesh Tiwari, instructed the RDO to seize the furniture and book a police complaint against the shop owner.

A woman complained about the MCH negligence in not cleaning the public toilets in the slum despite repeated representations. This was not all. Even the local MLA, Mr. Sripathrajeshwar, sounded dejected at the lack of followup in respect of shifting of the postmortem centre at Gandhi Hospital. This matter he had raised in the previous Janmabhoomi programmes to no avail.

Earlier, addressing a basti sabha at Bowenpally, Mr. Krishna Yadav, stressed the importance of literacy and urged the women to send their children to school. Dr. Alladi Rajkumar, MP, expressed happiness at the good response to the Janmabhoomi programme. The Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Mr. G. Sayanna, complained about the dilapidated condition of the Government schools in the area. It would be better if their maintenance was transferred from the Ranga Reddy district to the Cantonment Board, he said.

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