CM offers 5 more acres of land to Reddy Hostel

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said allotment of land and financial assistance being given to private institutions such as Raja Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy Educational Society should not be seen with narrow-mindedness, but taken as an attempt to respect the stalwarts of Telangana and the social work they had initiated. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony for construction of a building complex of the society at Budvel in the City on Tuesday, he said that Raja Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy, the former police chief of Hyderabad during the Nizam’s rule, was a social reformer who had taken up the cause of educating poor students from rural areas including girls by establishing educational institutions along with hostel facilities in Hyderabad. The State Government has allotted 10 acres land and ₹10 crore financial assistance under special development fund for building the facility at Budvel as the present facilities in the City had become congested due to increase in the number of students. The new facility would have an academic building, a hostel complex, career counselling centre, convention hall, an indoor sports complex and an orchard. Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao offered to allot five more acres of land and more funds, if required, for the new facility.