Vijayawada: Education, IT and electronics minister Nara Lokesh received grievances from people at the Praja Darbar he held in Undavalli programme on Tuesday. Many people, including differently-abled persons, women, and patients, turned up at the darbar not only from Lokesh’s Mangalagiri constituency but also other parts of the state. Lokesh interacted with them and sent the complaints to the departments concerned for resolution of the problems.
On the day, people from all over the state flocked to a similar programme held at the Telugu Desam headquarters, where minister Mandipall Ramprasad Reddy and TD national general secretary Kambhampati Rammohan Rao received petitions from the public. Among the petitioners, Chinna Yallaiah from Battuvaripalli in
Chandalur gram panchayat of Darsi mandal complained that he has not yet received payments for works done in 2019 under the Neeru Chettu scheme and sought release of the pending bills.
Outsourced APSRTC employees said they had been ignored by the previous government. At least the alliance government should extend them justice and job security. Villagers of Ghantasala mandal in Krishna district sought restoration of a bus, whose services had been cancelled by the previous government. They said it has become a problem for them to reach Ghantasala from Vijayawada at night because of the cancellation of the bus. Further, they are facing difficulties in going to the hospital from Ghantasala at night