Teacher, cop make a mark in Asifabad with their service to tribals
Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Discharging duties in Kumram Bheem Asifabad, one of the backward districts in the country, is undisputedly challenging for a public servant. Some officials feel working in any part of this entity is a punishment.
However, a government teacher and a Sub-Inspector, posted in remote parts of this district, found it as a golden opportunity to serve people and have earned an identity for themselves and have etched their names in the hearts of the aboriginal tribals.
Here is the inspiring story of teacher Kaderla Rangaiah. When he was posted as a teacher at a State-run primary school in Savarkheda village of Kerameri mandal in district in 2011, he was not discouraged by poor enrollment of students in the school. He laid a special focus on enhancing the strength of the institution to win the trust of the parents.
Kaderla Rangaiah is being felicitated by Asifabad MLA Athram Sakku and parents on being transferred at Savarkheda village in Kerameri mandal recently.
Rangaiah adopted innovative measures including introduction of English as a medium of instruction and improved infrastructure of the school by spending funds from his savings. Over a period of time, he could increase the enrollments from 54 to 280. Students were able to show substantial progress in academics, besides fluently communicating in English. Evidently, 84 students passed out from the school and cracked seats in residential schools.
Significantly, the teacher bagged the national best teacher award from the union government in 2021, in recognition of his outstanding efforts to transform the school. He was accorded a rousing farewell when he was transferred from Savarkheda to another school at Devapur village in Indervelli mandal, recently. The students expressed gratitude to him by washing his feet and bid adieu to their favourite teacher.
Meanwhile, Police Sub-Inspector Pushpala Rama Rao was posted in Maoist affected area at the remote Tiryani mandal centre in 2019. He was not demoralised by tacky transportating facilities and tele-communications to a major proportion of habitations of this region. He passionately served the aboriginal tribals dwelling in isolated hamlets located in hilly areas and dense forest by trekking for miles.
Remarkably, Rama Rao repaired a 3-kilometer long ghat road between Mangi and Manikyapur with the help of locals, realising 26-year old dream of Hostelguda, Patelguda, Bheempur, Bandarghat, Asunur, Rajguda, Kolamguda, hamlets under Mangi gram panchayat, in November of 2021. He used walls of houses to teach alphabets and numbers to pupils of ethnic tribes, winning accolades from many.
With the help of philanthropists and donors, he provided smart phones to tribal students to ensure the learning process was continued. He, in association with certain voluntary organisations, distributed groceries, face masks and sanitizers to the tribals affected by Covid-19 induced lockdown. He conducted many medical camps in the mandal centre for the convenience of the ethnic tribes during his two-and-half-a year stint at Tiryani mandal.
A large number of Adivasis voluntarily attended the ceremony held to mark the transfer of the Sub-Inspector to Khammam Commissionerate a few days back.
Tribal artistes performed traditional dance forms, while women carried harati as part of the event. Many tribal leaders felicitated Rama Rao and observed that the police official had taken up matchless community service programmes.
Superintendent of Police (Administration) YVS Sudheendra, who was chief guest of the event, opined that Rama Rao organised a slew of social service programmes, besides controlling law and order of the mandal. “He was the epitome of people-friendly policing, a motto of the Telangana police department,” he remarked, adding that the SI stood as a role model to his counterparts.
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