Kothagudem: Tamilisai calls for sustained efforts for development of tribal habitations
Kothagudem: Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan has called for sustained and collective efforts for an all-round development of the tribal habitations in the State. The Governor visited Konda Reddi tribal habitations in remote Pusukunta village of Dammapet mandal in the district on Tuesday. The visit came as part of a nutritional status improvement intervention pilot project […]
Kothagudem: Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan has called for sustained and collective efforts for an all-round development of the tribal habitations in the State. The Governor visited Konda Reddi tribal habitations in remote Pusukunta village of Dammapet mandal in the district on Tuesday. The visit came as part of a nutritional status improvement intervention pilot project taken up in the adopted tribal habitations of Pusukunta and Gogulapudi in the district.
Based on the success of the pilot project, similar initiatives would be taken up in other remote tribal habitations with a focus on the vulnerable tribal groups in the State, she said emphasising on providing required medical facilities for the tribal people. The Governor handed over a cash cheque for Rs 44.32 lakh towards the development works in the adopted tribal habitations. She laid the foundation stone for the construction of a community hall each at Pusukunta and Gogulapudi habitations for the benefit of the Konda Reddi community people.
She also laid a foundation stone for the construction of additional classrooms in a Primary School at Pusukunta. Two electric three-wheeler auto rickshaw ambulances to the tribal habitations by her to shift the patients in need from the remote habitations and other purposes of the community. Dr. Soundararajan visited houses of Konda Reddis at Pusukunta and interacted with the tribal women. She monitored the diagnostic tests carried out by the team of doctors from the ESIC Medical College at Pusukunta where more than 75 percent of people were found to be suffering from anemia.
While assuring the required medical help to the needy patients, the Governor distributed Mahua Laddu, health and hygiene kits to the tribal women with an aim to improve their nutritional status. She visited a renovated model Anganwadi Centre at the tribal habitation and interacted with the children and staff.
Dr. Soundararajan in her address to the tribals stated that their health, nutrition, education, livelihoods and wellbeing were her top priorities, not only as the Governor, but as a doctor also. The Governor was accompanied by IRCS state branch Chairperson Ajay Mishra and others.
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