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The government has laid focus on education and was ready to allocate as much funds as needed in the State budget. Funds were allocated in the vote-on-account budget for the construction of concrete buildings for all residential schools, he noted.

The government was conducting the Badi Bata programme from June 6 to June 19 to ensure that every child was enrolled in school.

The Collector visited several exam centres like Government Women's Degree College, RJC College and others and inspected the examination process.

Seven counting halls for seven Assembly segments under the Lok Sabha constituency and one for postal ballots were set up.

The Collector interacted with the farmers and asked what crop was cultivated last time and what crop was being cultivated this time.

The Collector said that there was no shortage of cotton seeds in the district. As 5.25 lakh packets of cotton seeds were required in the district as many as 5.60 lakh packets were available.

The rally passed through Sri Sri Circle, ZP Circle and ended at Pavilion grounds.

It was said that as district Collector VP Gautham examined nomination papers, Congress candidate Ramasahayam Raghuram Reddy’s supporters asked the election officials to reject the nomination of Nageswara Rao as he failed to mention the ED case in the affidavit.

Collector Gautham informed that the scrutiny of 72 nominations filed by 45 candidates for Khammam Lok Sabha was done and nominations of four candidates were rejected.

He asked the nodal officers to carry out their assigned duties effectively and take all measures to ensure that the upcoming elections were conducted smoothly without any mistakes.

The Collector along with Commissioner of Police Sunil Dutt addressed the media on Wednesday after inaugurating the media centre at the Zilla Parishad meeting hall on the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections.

The Collector presented cash rewards to the four persons who came first in the run and administered a pledge to exercise the right to vote democratically.

28 procurement centres would be operated through IKP, 96 through PACS and 27 centres through DCMS.

He inquired about the enrollment of students and the number of teachers in the schools. As the enrollment was low, steps should be taken to increase the enrollment in the next academic year, he suggested.

He directed the officials to prepare the list of polling officers (POs), APOs and OPOs should be prepared for 1459 polling stations in the district. Along with the requirement of actualpersonnel, reserve personnel should be listed.

District officials taking a break from their hectic duties joined the staff celebrating the festival. Khammam district Collector VP Gautham and Commissioner of Police Sunil Dutt joined the celebrations.

As many as 804 boreholes and 151 pumps were working in the urban areas and 1, 627 boreholes and 7, 199 pumps were available in the rural areas

Gautham noted that election duties were very important and there should be no scope for any mistake anywhere.

The Collector reviewed the arrangements for the Pulse Polio immunisation programme for children aged 0 to 5 years here on Monday.

Pregnant women should be made aware of the importance of taking nutritional food and they should be monitored for 45 days of childbirth.