TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu has announced financial help to three students who had discontinued their studies due to poverty and financial problems.
Naidu who has been touring the district as part of his ongoing ‘Vastunna Meekosam’ pada yatra was responded about this problem when he went to Ija in the district on Thursday. He was informed that Kaki Maheswari and Jhansi Rani had discontinued their studies and joined the jute mill as workers and H Vinaya Kumar, another student of the Pragati Jr College also had to discontinue his studies because of financial problems. Naidu has announced that the NTR Trust would extend financial help to the students and asked them to continue their studies. He has expressed his dismay that the state government was not encouraging poor children desirous of pursuing studies. He said NTR Trust would be in the fore front in encouraging poor students and youth in the realm of education. (NSS)