Lok Satta completes developmental work in adopted village
Hyderabad | Thursday, Nov 19 2009 IST
 

The Lok Satta party today claimed that while the Andhra Pradesh Government was yet to initiate construction of houses for flood victims, the Lok Satta had fulfilled its promise to adopt Kesavaram village in Aija mandal of Mahbubnagar district within a month of taking up the work. Addressing a press conference here, party Spokespersons N Saroja Devi, K Geetha Murthy, V Vijayender Reddy and Bhisetty Babji said the party had set an example by adding three rooms to an upper primary school at a cost of Rs three lakh in the flood-ravaged village.

The party had adopted the village to undertake all-round development work following the trail of destruction left by floods in River Tungabhadra on October two. Most of the 400 houses in the village with a population of 2,000 were damaged and 400 acres of land was sand-cast. The Lok Satta Party undertook a comprehensive survey of the problems of the village and submitted a report to the Collector. The party deployed modern technology 'Light Weight Construction Methodology', introduced by LCM India Private Limited, to augment accommodation in the school by adding three classrooms with a total plinth area of 1,000 square feet to the existing four rooms in less than a month. Mr G V Raghava Raju, Managing Director of LCM India and Secretary of the Lok Satta Party unit in Qutbullapur constituency, stayed in the village for more than a month to supervise the construction. The Lok Satta team in the village under the leadership of Mr Raju succeeded in getting five unauthorised liquor outlets in the village shut down. The team also worked with electricity authorities and got power supply restored and seven new transformers were erected in place of damaged ones. They educated the village women, who had been heavily dependent on micro finance at exorbitant interest, to access bank loans at three per cent interest rate, the leaders claimed.

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