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Lok Satta plea for bus shelters

The Lok Satta Party and its youth wing, Yuva Satta, have requested the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to immediately erect bus shelters at some 20 important bus stops and come to the rescue of commuters.

Mrs. A. Subhashini, Mr. Pagadala Venkateswara Rao and Mr. Balagangadhar Tilak, Lok Satta leaders, presented a representation signed by thousands of bus passengers to GHMC Commissioner S. P. Singh explaining that commuters are exposed both to sun and rain for want of bus shelters. They pointed out that even the maintenance of some of the existing bus shelters was unsatisfactory.

The Lok Satta Party identified the following places where bus shelters have to be constructed on a war footing: Liberty, Himayathnagar, Narayanaguda, Punjagutta, Bagh Lingampalli, Mehdipatnam, Sainikpuri, ECIL X Road, LB Nagar Ring Road, Sagar Ring Road, Jiaguda, Tallagadda, Lingampalli X Road, Kachiguda X Road, Ramakrishna Mutt, Patny Center, Chialkalaguda, Bowenpalli dabha, Bata – RP Road, Rangareddy Collectorate.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 17:02

Ministers’ review perfunctory: Lok Satta

The Lok Satta Party today took exception to the casual manner in which three Ministers had reviewed the breakout out of diseases like cholera and diarrhea in many parts of the State. Even as they recognized that polluted drinking water triggered the diseases, they did not display any remorse for neglecting the problem for so many years and causing avoidable distress to thousands of people.

Talking to the media, party spokespersons Dr. P. Bhaskara Rao and Mrs. K. Gita Murthy recalled that while one Minister claimed there were no deaths, another said there was only one death while the third one dismissed the cholera outbreak as a routine feature. Far from boosting the morale of victims by ensuring continuous medical relief, the Ministers were content with announcing ex gratia payments to the next of kin of the deceased.

People were rightly indignant with the Ministers because they had been denied a basic amenity for decades. The Lok Satta spokespersons said the Ministers are public servants and accountable to the public as long as they continued to be in office.

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 17:00

Cholera, a symptom of Govt.’s malaise: Lok Satta

Cholera in Hyderabad city, anthrax, typhoid and malaria in Agency areas and diarrhoea in many parts of the State are merely symptoms of a deep malaise afflicting the State administration.

Successive State Governments have apparently abdicated their responsibility of providing basic amenities like safe drinking water, toilet facilities and quality primary health care to people all over the State, charged the Lok Satta Party here today.

“It is, therefore, no wonder that deadly diseases break out at regular intervals,” party spokesman Katari Srinivasa Rao said in a media statement. “Instead of tackling the fundamental problems, the Government resorts to fire-fighting like suspending and transferring a few officials to assuage the agitated public.”

“What is tragic is that we have the resources and technologies but lack the will to address the problems.”

Because of its skewed priorities, the present Government has totally neglected primary and preventive care and focused its entire attention on tertiary care through ‘Arogyasri.’ Millions of people who suffer from routine ailments cannot avail themselves of ‘Arogyasri’, which is intended to benefit only a few lakhs of people requiring tertiary care. In Andhra Pradesh, there are primary centers without doctors and even when there are doctors, they don’t have drugs to dispense.

Mr. Srinivasa Rao said prudence dictates that a Government deploy its scarce resources to benefit the maximum number of people. There could be no greater priority than providing safe drinking water to people all over the State. “After all, people are not asking for the moon when they seek protected drinking water.”

Sunday, May 10, 2009 - 14:40

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