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Lok Satta Survey on Drinking Water

About 200 Lok Satta Party volunteers will be conducting a survey on the quality of drinking water in some 3000 poor people localities all over the Twin Cities and prepare a report within 48 hours (that is by Saturday) and place it before the public and the Government.

Announcing this, party spokesman Katari Srinivasa Rao told the media that the Lok Satta Party would make supply of safe drinking water an important issue in the upcoming Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections. Polluted drinking water has become the bane of innumerable localities and not merely of Bholakpur where nine people died and nearly 200 were hospitalized.

Mr. Srinivasa Rao pointed out that it cost about Rs.25,000 officially to get a water connection, not to mention the huge bribes the applicant had to pay in Hyderabad city. Yet the authorities had failed to supply protected water.

The Lok Satta staged a street play at Indira Park highlighting the travails the common man is forced to undergo because of Government negligence in day-to-day life. To name a few, he has to live with open drains and manholes without covers, polluted air and unhygienic eating places, adulterated liquor and non-functioning streetlights.

Lok Satta Party leaders N. Ravinder, V. Rohit Kumar, CVL Narasimha Rao, A. Maharani, Dasari Ratnam and N. Ravinder Reddy took part in the event.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 18:00

Lok Satta to strengthen base

VISAKHAPATNAM: Expressing satisfaction over the overwhelming response of people to Lok Satta in the just concluded election, its founder-president, Jayaprakash Narayan, said that the party would now concentrate on strengthening organizational base and leadership--the two areas where the party was found to be wanting.

Addressing mediapersons after reviewing party performance in the four north coastal districts here on Monday, Dr. Narayan refused to hazard a guess on the number of seats or the percentage of votes his party would get, asserting that politics is not just winning or losing elections, it is a continuous process of creating awareness among people and helping create a better society. “People now believe that, unlike other political outfits, Lok Satta stood for what it said and did what it promised to do. We have scored moral victory,” he said. People have also realized that other political parties had become morally bankrupt.

He said that with a view to reaching people and helping them, Lok Satta would set up civic centres in all mandals initially. This would be followed by setting up of similar centres in all villages. There would also be a call centre to help people in all aspects with phone no.40405050. The idea was to help and guide people solve their day to day issues in their own. He came down heavily on politicians who abuse voters, alleging that they were demanding money for votes.

“This was like devils quoting Vedas. It was the politicians who, taking advantage of the helplessness of the poor, purchased votes, got elected and made crores of rupees. The allegation was atrocious,” he said.

Answering questions, Dr. Narayan asserted that there was no dearth of leaders in Lok Satta party. Media has a tendency to recognize only persons with some designations, like MLA etc, as leaders. Because of certain problems, the party could not put up candidates in all Assembly and Lok Sabha segments. This issue of leaders would also be taken care of.

Senior Lok Satta leaders Y.D. Rama Rao,V. Ramachandraiah, Srinu Mahesh, Lakshman Babji, Jhansi were present.

Courtesy: The hindu

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 19:23

Lok Satta Organizing a Medical Camp at Bholakpur, Hyderabad

The Lok Satta Party is organizing a medical camp in Bholakpur where a few people have died and more than 100 fallen ill by drinking polluted Metro water.

Mr. C. V. L. Narasimha Rao, Lok Satta Party’s candidate for the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Rohit Kumar, candidate for the Musheerabad Assembly seat and Mr. N. Ravinder, President of the Greater Hyderabad Lok Satta unit, went round the affected localities today and visited hospitals where the victims were undergoing treatment.

The three leaders said in a statement that the Lok Satta would be organizing the camp for two days to help people who were reluctant to undergo treatment amidst unhygienic surroundings in the Government’s Gandhi Hospital and could not afford costly treatment in private hospitals.

The Bholakpur tragedy underlined the Government’s failure even to provide basic amenities to citizens in Hyderabad often proclaimed as a Metropolis in the making and a hub of technology. They recalled that only four days ago, the Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan had alerted the authorities about pollution of drinking water with sewage in Kukatpally area. That even CARE Hospitals’ nurses developed diarrhea because of polluted drinking water underlined the problem was not confined to one area. Although Bholakpur residents had drawn the authorities’ attention to drinking water getting polluted with effluents from leather units, no action had been taken. Their plea for dispatch of water tankers too had not been heeded.

The Lok Satta pointed out that it was sheer negligence that caused the tragedy since the State had the resources and technology to provide safe drinking water to every citizen not merely in the Twin Cities but all over the State.

The absence of coordination between the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, the Metro Water and Sewerage Board and the Pollution Control Board merely aggravated people’s plight.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 16:29

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