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Speaker vows to bring Chenchus to capital
The State government was committed to bring qualitative changes in the lives of nomadic Chenchu tribe found in Warangal district, said Assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary while speaking at the 100 years celebrations of Lions Clubs International on Saturday night. Madhusudhana Chary was the chief guest at the celebrations as well as Santhosham, the first annual convention of the newly-formed Li
Hyderabad: The State government was committed to bring qualitative changes in the lives of nomadic Chenchu tribe found in Warangal district, said Assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary while speaking at the 100 years celebrations of Lions Clubs International on Saturday night. Madhusudhana Chary was the chief guest at the celebrations as well as Santhosham, the first annual convention of the newly-formed Lions Multi District—MD 320 held at Classic Garden, Secunderabad.
Addressing the gathering of Lion members from Telangana and Karnataka States, Madhusudhana Chary said he found families of Chenchu tribe from Chennapur village in Regonda mandal and Jadalapeta (Bhavusinghpally) in Chityala mandal in Warangal. They were living in abject poverty and could not afford to have decent clothes. Still today, they hunted rats in the fields for their survival. They had not even visited Warangal city in their lifetime, the Speaker said.
He also announced that he planned to bring Chenchus to Hyderabad to make sure that they watched Assembly proceedings from his gallery. He urged Lions to take up charity and service activities to bring qualitative changes in the lives of nomadic Chenchu tribe. Some Lion members came forward and made an announcement of Rs 10 lakh donation.
Lion Vijay Kumar Raju, International Director, Lions Clubs International, delivered the keynote address. Lion B Narsimha Reddy, Council Chairman, MD-320, Lion Sunil Kumar R, former International Director and Lion K Govindaraj, area GLT leader, LCI were also present.Lions Clubs across MD 320 pledged to take up a major activity to commemorate the 100 years of Lionism.
