AP: Minister Subhash distributes aid to 20 ailing people
Apart from the CM Relief Fund, he said, his family, through the Satyam Vasamsetti Foundation, was also extending financial assistance to the poor and needy.
Distributing financial assistance of Rs.22.12 lakhs from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund to twenty beneficiaries for their medical assistance at a function held at Ramachandrapuram today, the Minister said so far over Rs.1 Crore assistance was extended from the CM Relief Fund in his constituency.
He said Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu was extending help to poverty stricken families in the manner of an elder son.
The Government was sincere in fulfilling all its election eve assurances and going ahead with all-round development of the state along with welfare schemes, he added.
Party senior leader Vasamsetti Satyam chaired the function.
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