‘NIFT to try for quota to State ’ - The Hindu

‘NIFT to try for quota to State ’ - The Hindu

Former Joint Director of CBI Mr. V.V. Lakshminaryana who visited my residence in Rajahmundry on 1/12/13M

Myself with former Joint Director of CBI V.V. Lakshminaryana
and senior citizen, most popular Gandhian Swadeshi pen company
owner K. Ramanamurthy explaining about Swadeshi pens to VV

Former CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshminaryana, our couple along
with Nyapathy Narasimharo couple, Ratnam pens owne
K. Ramana Murthy

Balakavi Educational Trust-BEST, which is my family Trust organized the following programme....

Education with ethical values emphasised 

Modern-day parents are busy with their kitty parties, shopping, TV serials and are neglecting children, who are the future of this country, said Gottipati Satyavani, popularly known as “Samaikyandhra Satyavani” or “Bharatiyam” Satyavani. Addressing girl students from four women’s degree colleges here on 4/12/13 in Rajahmundry, arranged by Balakavi Educational Seva Trust (BEST) she said that there is an urgent need to change the attitude of parents rather than students and then only the young minds would not be corrupted. She emphasised on education with ethical values, adding that without this crimes against women would increase.
Prof. V.V. Krishna, vice-chairman of the trust, presented a report about their activities. RUCA president T. Visweswara Reddy, Aditya College Director SP Gangi Reddy and students from Aditya, SKR, Jasti Bullema and Rajamahendri Women Degree colleges participated in the function.
MVR Sastry, Editor of Andhra Bhoomi , in his keynote address on “Sexual harassment against women -- role of media, law”, said that multinational companies in the West, which take good care of women employees, were neglecting their women employees in India. He reminded that it took 16 years for the Union Government to make a law on crime against women (1997-2013) in this country and that too after the gang-rape case in Delhi.

BEST poster, emphasizing importance of voting released by
RDO Amalapuram Miss Priyanka (second from right) and
Nyapathy Narasimha Rao (5th from left) and others

POSTER RELEASED:
The chairman of BEST, Nyapathy Narasimha Rao, said that his organisation would take up a campaign in all colleges in Coastal Andhra on the importance of exercising vote in a democracy. He along with other dignitaries released bilingual posters on “Right to Vote” prepared and designed by the organisation.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:
Women empowerment Ms. Priyanka, the new RDO Amalapuram, said that women’s empowerment, financial stability, better understanding of the environment would strengthen the place of women in society. P. Ramadevi Rao, president of ONGC Mahila Samiti, in her message said that girls should be taught social responsibility, service activities from their college days and parents and teachers should have a key role in this.
PSR Prasad, Vice-President of the Trust and AGM of NATCO Pharma proposed vote of thanks.
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04 08 13 RAM VS HINDU BHASKAR Hot topic chat in CCC Channel about one month ago

`Manduva' Houses in East Godavari

82-year old `Manduva’ house attracting with modern outlook

Manduva house entrance

 MADHAVARAYUDUPALEM (East Godavari): A small gram panchayat with 5 thousand population in Kadiyam mandal in East Godavari district is having a distinct features including a 82-year old `Manduva’ is being renovated and restructured last year with all modern amenities and latest fixtures.

The Manduva house in this village is owned by Annamdevula family traditionally from 1930’s. Mr. Annamdevula Suraiah constructed this on August 4, 1931 by bringing logs of teak and rosewood from Kotilingala Ghat of river Godavari in Rajahmundry. Mr. Suraiah spent Rs.3 thousand for wood on entire Manduva house at that time.

Simhadwaram of the Manduva

       After a gap of second generation, Annamdevula Veera Venkata Satayanarayana, who is popularly known as Chanti is representing third generation got an idea of renovating the entire Manduva. He and his wife Vijaya were elected as Surpanch for two consecutive terms and both served as MPTC member and Mandal Presidents respectively from 1988 to 2011.

Central hall of Manduva House

AIR-CONDITIONED, SOLAR SYSTEM: When Mr. Chanti took up the renovation, the walls of Manduva house was constructed with gummy soils or red bricks and the roofs were supported by logs of teak wood. So, he varnished and painted the wood including the main door (simhadwaram) which was beautifully carved with attracting designs. Top of the roof were covered with red tiles (Vadapalli penku) which was removed and again the same red tiles were arranged to bring old look and keep the tradition intact. The inside of Manduva logili was with a common hall and several spacious rooms spanning in all four directions. All these rooms are air-conditioned. The common hall was beautifully decorated with illumination in colours. The roof of the house was supported by several giant wooden pillars. The center of the common hall was topless to let the air and light come in, but it was partially closed and arranged a pipe to drain out the rain water from the top falls into a small constructed pit through the pipe.

GRAND ENTRANCE: Entrance of the house looks like entering into a temple with beautiful wood carvings and large size photos on either side with Anantha Padmanabha Swami in a glass case on the top.

         “Except, air-conditioners every thing runs on solar system in my house. Nowadays, this kind of houses is under extinction because of urbanization, western culture influence and downfall of traditional joint family system”-said Mr. Chanti.

       The entire Manduva is with perfect Vastu and there is a home theater to screen movies, meeting hall, outhouse with high-tech facilities, that too without disturbing old structure with `Boshanam’ (huge wooden box) and 1930’s old traditional iron safe, `patte mancham’ (wooden carved bed) are other interesting items to see in this Manduva.

MODEL PANCHAYAT WITH GOOD REVENUE SOURCE: According to Mr. Chilukuri Srinivasa Rao, State Vriksha Mitra Awardee, it is a record that Madhavarayudupalem got best Gram Panchyat and Nirmal Puraskhar twice for its maintenance under Ms. Vijaya and Mr. Chanti. Both of them laid mango trees all along the route from Jegurupadu to their village (3kms) and the revenue from the yielding will be given to development of the Gram Panchayat.

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Kadiyam nurseries target global market

Kadiyam nurseries spread in 3,500 acres in 11 villages of Kadiyam mandal in East Godavari are doing good business and providing considerable employment to about 20,000 agriculture labour.

However, the nurseries which generate revenue running into several crores per annum are also facing hardships on two accounts. One is exports and other is lack of exposure related to research. Though the All India Nurserymen Association (AINA) has taken up these two issues at different levels with the Central government, it has not yielded results till date.

The scenic beauty of Kadiyam nurseries is often seen in South Indian films . After 2003, All India Nurserymen Summit in this village, Kadiyapu Lanka, which was inaugurated by then Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, the domestic nursery business has almost doubled. From 2011, two to three big nursery farmers started exporting nursery plants to Middle East, particularly to Dubai, Doha, Qatar, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.

But, there is no encouragement from the State or Union government.

“So, we decided to conduct our national summit with our member farmers and invite government officials from Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR), National Horticulture Board (NHB) and Directorate of Floriculture Research (DFR) to expand our export network,” said Pulla Veera Venkata Rao, vice-president of AINA and managing director of Sri Satyadeva Nursery, largest nursery in Kadiyam mandal. The Satyadeva Nursery got national and international recognition for its “family-farmer business concept” and Mr. Venkat Rao was invited to about 10 countries to present the scenario of Kadiyam nurseries.

The representatives of Imperial Trading and Contracting from Doha, Qatar and V. Jayakannan, Managing Director of Finegreen Exports, Chennai have already visited Kadiyapu Lanka and held preliminary discussions to hold the International Summit on possibilities of more exports from the 11 nursery villages. “Till know we are doing business from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, now we decided to go for transnational business,” added Mr. Veera Venkat Rao.

Mr. Rao who won ‘Best Nurserymen’ in the country from Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi during “Vibrant Gujarat Summit-2013” is putting all his efforts to impress upon Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Director General of ICAR S. Ayyappan and Director, National Horticulture Board R.K. Agarwal to establish Directorate of Floriculture Research in Rajahmundry or Venkataramannagudem, West Godavari.

Lal Bahadur Shastri...Learn from him...

Former Prime Minister of India Lal
Bahadur Sastry looking at files even
in his flight journey...

Lal Bahadur Shastri doing office work in Airplane. Along with him is his wife, Lalita Devi.
Most of us would have studied about Shastri in our school textbooks in which we were taught that he was initially a freedom fighter, then became prime minister after Nehru, and later died in Tashkent. Thats all we know. 

So, let me share some interesting facts about him here..
October 2nd. Whose birthday is it? Yeah correct. Also, it is Shastri's birthday on same day and most of us dont even know it, let alone celebrate.
If you combine dedication, ethics, honesty, integrity, responsibility, & austerity, you get Shastri!! The above photo is the best example to show his dedication towards his job. Can we think of today's politician doing his job in flight like this? Forget flight, do they do their jobs with this much of dedication even in their office?
Talking about integrity & responsibility.....
There was a major railway accident sometime in 1950s. Being the railway minister at that time, he took moral responsibility and offered his resignation (However, Nehru did not accept it). That shows the moral standards he maintained.

Talking about honesty and ethics.....
During freedom struggle, when he was jailed by the British, he was informed that his daughter was sick. So he asked for 15 days permission and was granted on the condition that he will not participate in freedom struggle in these 15 days. By the time he reached his home, his daughter had died. After performing the funeral for 3 days, he immediately returned back to jail inspite of having 12 more days of freedom from jail!!
Similarly, one day, while in jail, he was told that his son was sick and this time he got a permission of 7 days of leave from jail. He stayed with his son all the 7 days. The son had still not recovered, but Shastri went back to jail to keep up his word!! (Fortunately, the son survived)
Talking about austerity.....
He is popularly called "The politician who made no money". He was born in a poor family, he lived his life in simplicity and austerity. And he died as a poor man. He really knew what austerity meant.
These are the kind of leaders we need today who can demonstrate what real austerity means. Not by someone who boards a train for the first time in his life at the age of 38, and spends a night in huts to prove that he is asture. We need austerity lessons from people who have really experienced poverty so that they understand what real poverty means. Not by someone who has zillions in swiss banks and talks about eradicating poverty here.
So, young political leaders should keep the above lively lessons in their mind and do little service to society as Mr. Shastri did.

-BVS Bhaskar

on Saturday