A senior physician and social activist J. Bapu Reddy was conferred a national level award by the Diabetes India Organisation at its conference in New Delhi recently for his contribution in the field of enlightenment and prevention of diabetes through his social service organisation Arogya Telangana.
The conference was conducted under the aegis of the World Health Organisation. Dr. Bapu Reddy, who has been practising for the past three decades in the town, had conducted several free medical camps and examined and treated over 5,000 patients.
He also counselled the patients and visitors on the ills of sugar and blood pressure and measures to be taken to prevent and control them. He is also pioneer in the execution of school health programme and continuation of campaign on ODF villages in the district. Doctors, friends and colleagues congratulated him for his achievement.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Telangana / by Special Correspondent / Nizamabad – March 02nd, 2017
Self-taught: Kantale Pandu Ranga Rao mending a scooter tyre at Narayankhed in Sangareddy district. | Photo Credit: Mohd Arif;Mohd Arif
Pandu Ranga Rao invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan to receive Visitor’s Award
When your tyre goes flat in a remote area where it’s hard to find people, let alone repair shops, you have no option but to push your bicycle or motorcycle to a nearby town or wait till you get some help by someone passing by.
Kantale Pandu Ranga Rao, who was once stuck in a situation like that, had to face some difficulties before he got his tyre repaired. Not letting the matter slip, he decided to find a solution, a quick fix, to repair flat tyres in no time.
Liquid solution
For over a year, Pandu Ranga Rao, a native of Sukkal Teerth village in Kangti mandal in Narayanakhed constituency, experimented with over 30 different chemicals and came up with a liquid solution that quickly arrests air leak when rubbed onto the punctured spot.
His innovation was identified by Brig. P. Ganesham of Palle Srujana, a voluntary organisation promoting rural innovations. He is also associated with National Innovations Foundation (NIF), which promotes innovations at the national level. Brig. Ganesham helped Pandu Ranga Rao establish Airceil Tubes Private Limited to sell his product and also popularised his innovation at the national level.
Now, the liquid solution is being sold in small tubes in the local market, as well as Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Taking note of his innovation, Rashtrapati Bhavan has invited Pandu Ranga Rao to receive Visitor’s Award-2017. He would also attend dinner on March 6 at RBCC.
Expressing happiness over his selection for Visitor’s Award, he said he would be leaving for Delhi on Friday.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by R. Avadhani / Narayanakhed (Sangareddy Dist.) / March 02nd, 2017
Eight-year-old Bhukya Chirutej Singh Rathod from Mahboobabad identifies differently from most children her age. While her friends watch cartoons or are busy attending tuitions after school, Bhukya says she is better off playing chess or exploring the world map. “She never sits still and needs to be occupied with some activity all the time,” complains her mother, but you can see her swell with pride as she talks of how her daughter made it to the India Book of Records, recently, for identifying 127 countries on the world map, within just one minute.
This was not her only achievement however. She has set two world records in the Golden Book of World Records and one in Star World Records. “It all started just last December when my mother saw that a government teacher had named the 52 countries in Asia within a certain time limit, and that person got a lot of recognition for it. Then, she thought she could do it too, and attempted it. While she was practicing, I found it interesting and I took it up,” says Bhukya, who is also a State level chess player. Her father Kiran Singh Rathod informs that she has now been given a date by the Guinness Book of World Records in March, and that she aims to identify and name all the 236 countries in two minutes.
A prodigy of sorts, Bhukya is already thinking big. “I want to become an IAS officer,” she says and adds, “I know I have a lot of time before I can be qualified to become one, I’ve learnt that if I am at that position, I can help the poor in their education.” To this, her father says that they believe in her, since she is brilliant. “We noticed that she has a photographic memory. She needs to read them just once, and she can remember forever. She is always enthusiastic to learn new things and manages to finish all her homework by herself at school, so she has time to do other things at home. She plays with her friends too, of course. Always a straight A’s kid, she asks us to enroll her in summer camps during the holidays. She likes learning Vedic maths and the abacus, and playing chess is one of her favourite pastimes,” he says.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Lifestyle and Trending / by Nikhita Gowra, Deccan Chronicle / Februrary 28th, 2017
