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Hans India
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Speed up construction of houses for poor
Dharmavaram: It is the government's responsibility to provide both house sites and homes to all eligible poor and weavers in the region, said Paritala Sriram, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in-charge of the Dharmavaram Assembly constituency, said on Wednesday. Sriram held a review meeting with officials from the Revenue, Municipal, and Housing Departments to discuss issues raised during the recent Padayatra conducted by Minister Satya Kumar and the ongoing Good Governance programmes held over the past 15 days. The meeting was attended by DE Shankar Lal, AE Chiranjeevi, Municipal RI Shiva Kumar, TPO Alivelamma, Vijaya Bhaskar, TIDCO representative Thirumani, Rajesh, in-charge tahsildar Suresh, VRO Ravi and mandal surveyors, among others. Sriram stated that a large number of public complaints and representations received during the outreach programmes were related to pending house site pattas and non-allotment of houses. He said it was essential to resolve all these issues swiftly and ensure that no deserving beneficiary was left out. He also pointed out several mistakes committed during the previous YSRCP government, such as: cancellation of pattas issued by the former TDP government, failure to show land for new allotments and misuse of land allotted for the poor for real estate purposes. He urged officials to take corrective actions and address every complaint that has come to their notice. He called for speedy completion of houses that are structurally ready up to the base level, and insisted on conducting another field-level verification to finalise an accurate list of eligible beneficiaries.
New Indian Express
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
'I am possessive about all my tracks,' says Job Kurian ahead of Bengaluru concert
Some journeys don't begin with grand plans – they start with a small, quiet passion. For singer-composer Job Kurian music was one such journey inward, an interest that slowly grew to be a means to understand life, connect with others, and stay honest with oneself. 'I always wanted to compose my own songs and perform them. I wanted to do it independently,' he notes as he completes almost two decades of his musical pursuit. Speaking with CE ahead of his show yesterday, when asked about what the audience can expect as he performs in the city after almost a year, Kurian kept it classic. 'It will be mostly my original songs. I'll play my self-composed tracks – I'll play Padayatra, Bhaavam, Roots, Kannodu. But there are some that I have sung in the movies like Manikyachirakulla and Aaranne. It depends on the mood and request,' he explains, adding 'Bengaluru has received our original compositions in a good way all these years. Being an indie artiste, my priority is always my original compositions. I have tried to bring that to the audience all my life; cinema has been an added aspect to my career. I totally respect that.' For Kurian, who finished his engineering degree in Karnataka, performing in Bengaluru is like coming home. 'I did my engineering graduation from Hassan. I speak a bit of Kannada. Actually, I sing in Kannada too,' he confides. While singing was a dream inculcated by his parents from childhood, Kurian recalls, 'Back then, we didn't think of it as a career. With that interest, I started listening to music which is my main feature. I still like to listen to music. Then I slowly became open to a lot of genres.' The breakthrough came with the reality show Superstar on Amrita TV, which he calls a 'catalyst' for him. 'People recognised me. That was the biggest recognition. In parallel, I could confidently release my tracks since I had an audience that knew me. Mostly, if you notice, all my tracks are biographical in nature. So, my dream was to make my own experiences into music and present it to the audience. That's how I keep doing things now,' Kurian emphasises. His recently-released track, Nizhal, is one such story that travels through layers of human relationships. Besides this, his approach to music is fluid and organic. 'Nothing is planned in music. It's a flow. When you don't know anything else other than music, you just have to do that. I've never been half-hearted in my approach.' This, he believes to be his inspiration.
Time of India
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Andhra Pradesh MLA hails CM Nara Chandrababu Naidu as role model for electricity reforms in country
TIRUPATI: Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy asserted that chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu was a role model for electricity reforms for the entire country. During his address on the second day of the TDP's Mahanadu held at Kadapa, Kotamreddy recalled that while 16 chief ministers who ruled Andhra Pradesh in the past could produce only 5,000 MW of power during their combined regime, Nara Chandrababu Naidu generated 15,000 MW of power during his tenure alone. 'While power cuts and interrupted power supply were the order of the day back then, today the people of the state are enjoying the fruits of uninterrupted power supply because of the electricity reforms brought by our visionary leader Nara Chandrababu Naidu,' the Nellore Rural MLA asserted. Criticising the previous YSRCP govt, Kotamreddy asserted that it destroyed all systems in the state and brought it to a point where even paying salaries to the employees became a daunting task. He stressed that if Chandrababu Naidu didn't become chief minister, the state wouldn't have been able to progress in any manner from the ruins of the erstwhile regime. The Nellore Rural MLA also recalled how Nara Lokesh, through his Yuvagalam Padayatra, restored confidence among the people of the state. 'The then YSRCP govt created all kinds of hurdles for his Padayatra, but Lokesh marched forward without any fear of the cases or the brutal force being unleashed against him by the then regime. Today, the time has come for Lokesh to play a bigger role in the party in order to further strengthen the party before the 2029 general elections in the state,' Kotamreddy asserted.
