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| Free Note
Book Distribution Programme |
The
Hyderabad branch of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha has
free distributed over 1,10,000 Note Books to the poor
students of govt. schools of Mahaboob Nagar, Nalgonda,
Ranga Reddy districts besides Hyderabad-Secunderabad
during June 16, 2008 to September 14, 2008. |
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Note Book was jointly released by Dr. C. V. S. K. Sarma,
the then Commissioner & Special |
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Officer
of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and SBH CGM
Sri P. K. Panda and the scheme was flagged off by Andhra
Pradesh Backward Welfare minister Sri M. Mukesh Goud
on June 11, 2008 at the Sangha premises. |
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MAHABOOBNAGAR
: This year the Sangha chose Mahaboob Nagar, Nalgonda
and Ranga Reddy districts (considering its economical
background) as compared to other districts. Distribution
of note books started on June 16, 2008 at Thirumal Dev
Gutta School by Mahaboob Nagar collector Smt. V. Usha
Rani. She was also distributed in the schools of Police
Line, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Ramaiah Bowli etc. The other
schools were Konapalamur, Shabazar, Shasabgutta, New
Town Urdu Schpol, |
Venkateshwar
Colony, Teachers Colony, Enugonda, Ramnagar, Handicapped
School, Gandhi Nagar, Orphan Home, Veerannapet locality
schools in the city and Alipur, Dharmapur, Amistapur,
Mangal Kunta Tanda etc. villages in the district. Thus
over 30,000 Note Books were distributed in Mahaboob
Nagar district.
Other than the Collector, DEO Sri Chengaiah,
Judge Sri S. P. Ismail, MLA Sri Puli Veeranna, Corporators,
Eenadu & ETV local unit incharge Sri A. Bhanu Venkatesh
and those who guided and organized to help distribute
note books were Lion Sri A. Natraj, IRCS secretary Sri
Khaza Khutubuddin, SBH officials Sri V. P. Ravindra
Kumar and Sri T. Ayyanna are worth mention. |
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NALGONDA
: July 14, 2008 was the date when we started the programme
in Nalgonda. District Educational Officer Sri V. Masthanaiah
inaugurated this programme at Gollaguda DIET School.
Then we distributed in the schools of Ramgiri, Boyaguda,
Bottuguda, Akkalaigudem, Natiwadigudem, Kanchanapally,
Domalpally, Gudapur, Devarkonda Road, Panagal, Marrigudem,
Cherlapally, Yellareddygudem, Bollepally, Chinna Suraram,
Pedda Suraram, Chandanapally, Kaziramaram, Tarenderpally. |
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| Over 32,000 Note Books
were distributed in Nalgonda district. |
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RANGA
REDDY : Free Note Book District programme started on
September 2, 2008 at Jagadgiri Gutta Zilla Parishat
School, Kukatpally in Balanagar Mandal. District collector
Sri M. Dana Kishore was to inaugurate the programme
as we met him but instead DEO in charge Sri Satyanarayana
Reddy distributed by inaugurating the programme. Over
2,400 Note Books distributed in this school at Rickshaw
Pullers Colony. Govt. School students of Narapally,
Chengicherla, Cherlapally, Medipally, |
Peerzadiguda,Kachavanisingaram,
Chowderguda, Tenuguguda in Ghatkeshar Mandal and Ravalkol,
Athvelly, Dabilpur, Srirangavaram, Nuthankol, Girmapur,
Yellampet in Medchal Mandal were distributed over 30,
000 Note Books in the concluding phase this year. |
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TWIN-CITY
: Students of Chintal Basti, Bharat Scouts & Guides
at Gagan Mahal, Pankaja Memorial at Domalguda, Aliya
opp. Lal Bahadur Stadium, were distributed Free Note
Books. SBI Dy. MD (Inspection) Sri Amitabha Guha, SBH
MD Smt. Renu Challu, SBH AGM Sri D. Virinchi, prominent
physician Smt. Radha Rani were among the persons to
be participated on these noble occasion. On July 21,
2008 at Malakpet in the city the Sangha distributed
over 7,000 Note Books to the students of Swami Vivekananda
Centenary High School. Attending the programme Principal
Secretary to Govt. of Andhra |
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Pradesh, Commercial
Tax & Prohibition Mr. G. Sudhir, IAS applauded this
noble service of the Sangha and asked the students to
study hard and be successful in their academic level.
School headmaster Sri Chakrapani and others were present
on this occasion. On August 15, 2008 over 1700 Note
Books distributed to the children of Saraswathi Vidya
Mandir High School, Khairatabad. Andhra Bank Executive
Director Sri Anil Girotra who was the Chief Guest on
this occasion distributed Note Books to the children.
On August 25, 2008 in Ameerpet Mandal at Yellareddyguda
Govt. Primary & High School, Hyderabad the Sangha
distributed over 1,800 Note Books to the children. On
August 26, 2008 in Musheerabad Modern Primary School
and in Bholakpur in Secunderabad area the Sangha distributed
around 2,000 Note Books to the students. |
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| Tamil
Nadu Flood Relief – 2008 |
The
Hyderabad branch with the joint co-operation of Rameswaram
branch of the Sangha undertaken the flood relief work
in Tamil Nadu recently after incessant rain caused havoc
in several districts in the state. After meeting Ramanathapuram
district collector Sri Kirlosh Kumar who informed Swami
Munishwaranandaji about the affected area of Sayalgudi
Town Panchayat and request to help the affected family
there.
Swamiji instantly purchased 10 quintals
of rice and 200 bed sheets from Madurai and Ramnad and
distributed those to the hapless families of Anna Nagar
slum and Kannirajapuram village on 27th March, 2008. |
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| Guest
House for Patients: |
Moved
by the hapless conditions of those financially-constrained
out-station patients, the monks of the Sangha started
collecting donations from the kind-hearted devotees
and constructed a 24-room four-storied building with
essential amenities in 1998 which was formally inaugurated
and thrown open for public use at free-of-cost by the
then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Sri Nara Chandrababu
Naidu, on 23rd March, 1999. |
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Since
many needy patients were left frustrated for not getting
enough accommodations in the Guest House, an array of
another 15 rooms has been added further to the existing
facilities in 2001. So now a total of 39 rooms are at
disposals mainly for those who are suffering from Eye,
Gastroenteritis and other various chronic ailments are
getting treated in different hospitals in and around
Hyderabad. Rooms are provided to the patients on first-cum-first-serve
basis. |
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| Puskarams
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The
Sangha has been extending its immediate services to
the scores of pilgrims during the Godavari and Krishna
Puskarams being held at Rajahmundry and Vijayawada respectively
for the past three decades. Sangha’s well equipped
Medical Team, Life Savers are being put on duty during
these two fairs that comes once in every 12 years. |
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| Ambulance Service: |
In
case of emergency, our Ambulance is put on to the service
of the needy patients’ for arranging conveyance
to various hospitals in the Twin-cities free-of-cost.
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This
facility was launched on 20th November, 2005 when the
State Bank of Hyderabad, a giant public sector financial
institution, donated this vehicle to the Sangha, having
got highly impressed of its philanthropic ideals. Sri
Amitabha Guha, the Managing Director of State Bank of
Hyderabad, has personally handed over this special amenity
while inaugurating the facility. |
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| Hearse Service: |
The
Sangha added yet another feather in its humanitarian
services-cap in March, 2006 to transport the dead bodies
by a specifically designed glass-cubicle vehicle to
crematoriums free-of-cost. It also arranges transportations
of unclaimed dead-bodies when the authority at Gandhi
Hospital mortuary calls the Sangha to assist in the
disposals. In case of poor people who can not afford
to pay the cremation charges, the Sangha unhesitantly
comes to their rescue and pays for their behalf in order
to complete funeral formalities. |
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| Allopathic
Dispensary: |
Feeling
the financial agonies of the slum-dwellers, the Sangha
started an Allopathic Charitable dispensary since 7th
May, 2007 onwards in a regular manner in its old Ashram
(Hanuman temple) premises at Domalguda. Dr. Chintawar
Sudhakar has happily been nurturing one of humanitarian
causes of the Sangha in running this dispensary on every
Monday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Sangha also provides
medicines to the patients totally free. |
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| Public Library: |
A well-maintained
library and a versatile reading room have been catering
to the needs of the local readerships since many years
from its existence at the present premises. The library
offers various text books on religion, philosophy, story,
biography etc. in Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya and
Telugu languages and also news papers and magazines
in English, Hindi and Telugu. |
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| Accommodations for performing Obsequial
Rites: |
In
the cities like Hyderabad-Secunderabad, people hardly
find any suitable place where they can perform their
holy obsequial rites for the peace of their dear and
near one’s departed souls. The Sangha, taking
this opportunity as a sacred privilege, is providing
a helping hand in this arena too. A moderate hall, kitchen,
rooms with attach-bath and concerned facilities are
made available here. Arrangements for priests and other
necessary helps may also be accessed. |
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| RELIEF TO THE DISTRESSED |
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It’s
a time-tested fact to our every countryman that the
monks of the Sangha are always the first to arrive in
serving the afflicted people during any natural calamities
anywhere in the country. The monks of the Sangha, propelled
by the ideals of the Acharya and to arrest further deteriorations
of human sufferings, provides in no time the necessary
foodstuffs, household materials, clothings, medical
assistances etc. to the needy irrespective of castes,
creeds, religions or nationalities. If the damages are
extensively severe, then the Sangha strives hard to
engage all its resources to build cottages, schools,
community shelters etc., if the situation demands so,
through the financial help of the people, driven in
the thoughts of sacrifice, in order to ensure immediate
succour to those affected humanity.
The country has not forgotten the
Sangha’s mammoth services that were extended during
the unprecedented devastations caused due to super cyclone
in Bhavadevarpally in Krishna district and Amalapuram
in Kakinada district (A.P.), earthquake at Latur (Maharashtra),
Bhuj (Gujarat), super cyclone in Orissa, Tsunami in
Cuddalore (T.N.) and in Andaman & Nicober islands. |
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| Warangal
Flood Relief |
A
Relief team of the Sangha reached Warangal to stand
beside the flood victims soon after the havoc. After
a discussion with the collector, the relief team visited
the most affected area of M. H. Nagar, Chinthal, S.
R. Nagar, Janpiri and as per their requirement bought
blankets there and distributed to the sufferers. Warangla
collector & DM Smt. K. Damayanthi formally started
the distribution programme by handing over the materials
on behalf of the Sangha on 26th September, 2007. A sum
of 700 families benefited by this gesture of the Sangha.
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| Kurnool Flood Relief:
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The
flash flood in June, 2007 in Kurnool district of Andhra
Pradesh had caused severe havoc. The Sangha’s
team led by its branch secretary Swami Munishwaranandaji,
rushed to the spot immediately to stand beside the sufferer,
at the time they needed him the most. The district administration
formally requested the Sangha to provide some cover
for the afflicted who were shivering due to the cold
waves flowing through.The Sangha spontaneously answered
the call of its conscience and brought over 2000 nos.
of blankets worth Rs. 3 lakhs approx. from its emergency
calamity-stock kept in Hyderabad. Kurnool District Collector
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Chief City Planner Sri Ch. V.S. Bhaskar Sarma and Dy.
Eduacational Officer Sri G. Mallikarjuna helped the
Sangha in orderly distributing those blankets to the
nature-battered poor school children in about 24 schools
in the vicinity. |
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| Controlling Epidemics:
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In
controlling the devastating epidemics like Chikun Guniya
that engulfed Andhra Pradesh alongside many other Indian
states, the monks of the Hyderabad branch of the Sangha,
uncared for their own personal safety, traveled to various
affected areas with highly-equipped medical teams with
the help from SBH in Andhra Pradesh like Khammam town,
Bhadrachalam and its surroundings, several villages
in and around Vemulavada in Karimnar district, Addagutta
slum and Kavadiguda in Hyderabad, for providing free
treatments to the affected patients. |
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| Blanket and Saree distribution:
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The
plight of the uprooted slum dwellers from the then LIC
colony situated near Indira Park and now reaccommodated
at Ghouse Nagar in the outskirts of Hyderabad was not
only pathetic but touching too. The Sangha with its
limited resources took up the bold initiatives to disburse
van-loads of blankets and sarees to the affected families
on 17th January, 2007. Hyderabad District Collector
& Magistrate Sri R.V. Chnadravadan distributed those
relief materials along with Swami Munishwaranandaji,
the Hyderabad unit Secretary of the Sangha and Smt.
P. Lila, the M.R.O. of Falaknuma. In tune with the above,
it is worth mentioning that the Hyderabad branch of
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Sangha,
in maintaining its continuous service roles, distributes
new sarees, dhotis and shirts to the deserving hundreds
of poors during Deepavali & Kalipuja festival every
year for over last four decades. |
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| Medical Equipments Provided:
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Honouring
the proposal of the Hyderabad District Collector, the
Sangha donated Oxygen Cylinders, Wheel Chairs, Stretchers,
Back Rests, Bed Pans etc. to the old & disabled
occupants of the MEANS Old-Age Home who were left to
the fate uncared by their own blood-relations, at Sri
Krishna Nagar Colony, N.F.C. Road, Moula Ali, Hyderabad
on 10th April, 2007. |
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| Note-Books distributions:
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The
Sangha distributed about 1800 and odds long note-books
to over 200 poor students of Govt. Pranavananda High
School at Hyderguda on 4th August, 2007. Sri Amitabha
Bhattacharya, I.A.S., Principal Secretary to Govt. of
Andhra Pradesh (BC welfare dept.) distributed those
note-books among the needy students. |
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Further,
again on 15th August, 2007, the Sangha distributed about
1500 note books to over 200 students of Saraswati Vidya
Mandir at Indira Nagar, Khiratabad. Sri Kalyan Mukherjee,
Executive Director, Andhra Bank distributed those note-books
to the students, badly seeking help. |
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On
30th August, 2007, the Sangha once again stretched its
philanthropic services and over 1600 note-books to the
300 and odds under-privileged school children of Govt.
Upper Primary school at Chintalguda (Chintalbasti),
Khairatabad in Hyderabad. Sri Amitabha Guha, the Managing
Director of State Bank of Hyderabad who, time and again,
had really shown his true love for the Sangha’s
various service activities and had done much more for
the Sangha surpassing its expectations. Sri Guha distributed
those note-books to the gathering poor students of the
school. |
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2007, the Sangha given away some 1500 note books to nearly
500 poor students of four schools at Gowlipura, Sultansahi,
Berun, Shalibanda area in the Old City, Hyderabad. School
Inspector Sri D. Ellaiah distributed those note books
to the children. |
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| Poor Feeding (Anna Danam):
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The
Sangha, on its own takes up poor-feeding opportunities
on some special occasions regularly around the year.
Many noble hearts may wish to feed
the poor & destitute on occasions of their choice.
In such cases, the Sangha would feel more than obliged
and privileged to make necessary arrangements voluntarily
in case financial implications are borne by the benefactor.
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