Education alleviates poverty, says MLA Badeti Kotaramarao (Bujji)

 Eluru: MLA Badeti Kotaramarao (Bujji) has said education is key for success in life. It will help in alleviating poverty and caste discrimination.

He distributed notebooks and stationery to inmates of hostel belonging to MLC Ramu Suryarao here on Thursday. The students should concentrate on education to achieve their goals in life. 

There are many persons in our society who reached top positions in life. The students should take them inspiration to come up in life. 

Stating that he had special liking for educated children, the MLA said that he had been extending scholarships and other help to merit students through a charitable trust named after his father Badeti Sriharirao.

The trust has been extending financial help every year to poor students who want to pursue higher education, he informed.

The MLA praised MLC Suryarao for helping many children to get education and treating them as his own children. Though service was not possible with any one person, 

Suryarao had taken up the challenge and grooming children and poor patients. After Surya Rao assuming charge as chairman of Eluru Government Hospital, the dignity of the post has soared to new heights, the MLA added.

The MLC, in his speech, said that philanthropists have been supporting to their cause to extend higher education to 60 children from different parts of the state besides provision of shelter, clothes and other things for them. 

It was donors who should be hailed for continuing the services for the past four decades, he added.  

Central Excise Superintendent V Kishore Royal informed that Tulasi Ramachandra Prabhu of Guntur had been donating Rs 1.7 crore on his birthday every year to help poor students.