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Chandrababu opens community health centre
The 30-bedded Community Health Centre (CHC) built at a cost of Rs 6.08 crore at Naravaripalle of Chandragiri mandal was inaugurated by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. It will have a total of 40 staff including doctors.
Tirupati: The 30-bedded Community Health Centre (CHC) built at a cost of Rs 6.08 crore at Naravaripalle of Chandragiri mandal was inaugurated by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. It will have a total of 40 staff including doctors.
Speaking to the media, the Chief Minister said the CHC will become a model one as it has modern infrastructure including 3 dialysis units. It will cater to the needs of 53,400 population belonging to 39 gram panchayats and 9 sub centres and 52 Anganwadi centres. The capacity will be further increased to cater to 1.5 lakh population.
It will be attached to SVIMS Hospital so that students of the Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women can come and use it for their field experience. “Chittoor MP Dr N Sivaprasad has agreed to provide one ambulance to the CHC and NTR Memorial Trust will provide two more. These vehicles will be useful for shifting the patients from CHC to SVIMS continuously,” he stated.
Chandrababu said staff quarters will also be built soon and staff can stay in the quarters with the development of better road connectivity between Tirupati and Naravaripalle. On the occasion, he asked the TTD to provide annadanam to the patients and their attendants at the CHC. Later, the Chief Minister laid foundation stone for 34 km four-lane road between Pudipatla Bailu–Rangampet at an estimated cost of Rs 57 crore.
Referring to the Putalapattu-Naidupet six-lane road, he stated that the government is giving priority for development of Bengaluru-Chittoor-Krishnagiri, Palamaneru-Madanapalle, and Chittoor-Ranipet highways in the district.
He has expressed happiness that the Janmabhoomi programme this year went off well and every village will be provided with street lighting, and animal dung collection was being done in new methods.
“Drinking water and fibre cable were being provided to all the villages through which knowledge will reach the door step which will take them into economic development in the next stage,” Naidu said and added that he was trying to establish an old age home also in the village.
The state government is planning to provide two cows to every house and encourage community farming by handing over to DWCRA groups. “The idea is to make every household to earn at least Rs 10,000 to 15,000 per month.
In future, an apparel park also will come up in the area,” Chandrababu said. He sanctioned financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to R Reddeppa of Korlagunta in Tirupati, who is suffering from paralysis, sanctioned pension to P Venkataramana Naidu of Polakala in Irala mandal and pucca houses to K Dhanalakshmi, V Pushpalatha and G Sakuntalamma of Tirupati. People have waited in long queues for hours together to give representations to the Chief Minister.
Ministers Kamineni Srinivas, Nara Lokesh, ZP Chairperson S Girvani, Chittoor MP Dr N Sivaprasad, Tirupati MLA M Suguna, MLC Dorababu, TUDA Chairman G Narasimha Yadav, District Collector PS Pradyumna, DIG J Prabhakar Rao, Urban SP Abhishek Mohanty and others participated.
