Change school name, Collector to DEO

Visakhapatnam: Collector K Bhaskar on Thursday directed the District Educational Officer Lingeswara Reddy to issue orders for naming the government school as Padmanabhudi Bennaiah Setty School. The collector directed the DEO to issue the orders and inform it to Commissioner of Education.

The general body meeting of Zilla Parishad was held on Thursday, under the chairmanship of L Bhavani. Speaking in the meeting, MPP of Narsipatnam Ramanamma said that Padmanabhudi Bennaiah Setty gave his 5.40 acres of land worth Rs 7 crore to the school in Vemulapudi panchayat. However, the government was not giving permission to name the school infavour of donors, she said.

On the issue, the collector asked DEO about the delay in issuing of orders. The DEO informed that there was a delay in getting orders from the Commissioner. Expressing his dissent over the issue, the collector directed the DEO to issue orders immediately and inform the same to the Commissioner.

The collector also asked the members to talk about the issue at their respective mandals. There is a practice all these years, the officers have to inform about the progress of their department in the meeting. The collector stopped the tradition and asked the members to talk on the issues.

The collector already issued orders that all the officials must attend to the grievances progamme on Monday and except emergency, only leaves would be sanctioned to officials on Monday.

Zilla Parishad CEO Ramana Murty, MLAs P Ramesh Babu, MP M Srinivasa Rao and MLC P Chalapati Rao spoke on various issues. Meanwhile, Tribal Welfare Minister K Shravan Kumar attended to the meeting and left after 10 minutes.