Hyderabad, November 20: The Lok Satta Party has set an example by adding three rooms to an upper primary school at a cost of Rs 3 lakh in the flood-ravaged Kesavaram village in Aija mandal of Mahaboobnagar district within a month of taking up the work.
The LSP had adopted the village to undertake all-round development following the trail of destruction left by floods in the Tungabhadra on October 2.
Most of the 400 houses in the village with a population of 2,000 were damaged and four hundred acres of land silted up.
The LS P undertook a comprehensive survey of village problems and submitted a report to the Collector.
The party deployed lightweight construction methodology introduced by LCM India Private Limited to augment accommodation in the school by adding three classrooms with a total plinth area of 1,000 square feet to the existing four rooms in less than a month. GV Raghava Raju, managing director of LCM India and secretary of the Lok Satta Party unit in Qutbullapur constituency, stayed in the village for more than a month to supervise the work.
The LSP team also succeeded in getting five unauthorised liquor outlets in the village shut down. As a result, most of the residents have stopped drinking.
The team also worked with electricity authorities and got power supply restored and seven new transformers erected in place of damaged ones.
Giving this information at a media conference here today, party spokespersons N Saroja Devi, K Geetha Murthy, V Vijayender Reddy and Bhisetty Babji pointed out that whereas the Government was yet to initiate construction of houses for flood victims, the Lok Satta had fulfilled its promise.
–Agencies