“SWACHH PRASHASAN” IS ESSENTIAL TO ACCOMPLISH “SWACHH BHARATH” Launch of Swachh Bharath Abyan (SBA): NDA Government under Sri Narendra Modi leadership took up cleanliness drive as its flagship program and launched it in big way on 2 nd October,2014 (Gandhi Jayanti) and declared that India will be litter free nation by 2 nd October,2019.   The Government gave thrust to program by announcing brand ambassadors, involving corporates, conducting special drives, massive toilets construction program and  special tax (Swachh Bharath tax) is introduced. In reality it is nothing but an extension of UPA program “ Nirmal Bharath Abyan ” by changing the name to “ Swachh Bharath Abyan ”, with a promise of better delivery with measurable indicators. First three years there were lot of  campaigns, photo sessions of celebrities, corporates, political personalities with cleanliness drives, hungama from SBA ambassadors and enough hype was created. During last one year there...

*NAKED TRUTHS - INFORMATION FLOW IN GOVERNMENT - EXPERIENCE SHARING OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT * As gathered from a mandal education officer (MEO), there are about 650 students wrote 10th board exam from that mandal and out of 650 only 50 are from private schools and balance from Govt schools i.e., over 92% is from Govt schools. The same he presented to his DEO, subsequently the information is flown to Collector, Director, Secretary, Minister Education and to CM through series of Video conferences and created an impression that everything is very good. Unfortunately the ground realities are different. From the same mandal about 1000 students studied in private schools in near by towns and wrote 10th exam from there. As these are studying in schools out of the mandal, MEO conveniently avoided reporting about them. I am sure everyone in this system knew ground realities, but none are willing to touch the honeycomb. If no one is interested in looking at  ground realities and survi...

PINEAPPLES FROM SEETHAMPETA, SRIKAKULAM DIST  The well known local variety of pineapple”Simhachalam” which is very sweet with juicy pulp and gold colour  is grown in about 15000 acres in Savara tribal pockets of Palkonda and Seethampeta mandals. The quality of fruit in this area is very good due to traditional organic cultivation practices of tribals. The soils are very rich with good amount of organic matter. These pineapples contain more vitamins and protein when compare to the same fruit grown in commercial Agriculture areas. Despite the presence of ITDA, Horti Dept, Velugu, ZBNF, number of FPOs there is hardly any aggregation and marketing support, forget about value addition and storage systems. Local sandies with all sorts of exploitative methods is the only marketing venue for these poor tribals, Like the fate of most of agri commodities, the pineapple rates are Rs 6 to 8/ piece weighing around 1 to 1.5 kgs as against last year rates of Rs 14 to 18.  ...

JANMABHOOMI-SMALL INITIATIVE CAN BE OF GREAT HELP AP is having second summer due to monsoon failure and standing crops are wilting for shortage of water. Due to limited time power availability, all pump sets have to run at same time, resulting in transformers tripping due to excess load. The problem is much more in islands like ours where crop coverage is 100% due to abundant water availability.  Farmers came with a request to get one electricity Dept helper posted so that their maintenance issues can be resolved. I immediately escalated the issue and got it resolved by convincing the Dept. The existing transformer are insufficient due to upgradation of many pump sets from to 3 to 5 HP. Farmers paid necessary charges for such upgradation. The issue of transformers overload and related issues with complete details was brought to the notice of the dept and convinced them for the need of adding more transformers on urgent basis. One transformer they promised to install i...

RADHIKA VEMULA - DALIT EMPOWERMENT AN UNREALIZED DREAM The poor woman lost her son Rohith Vemula, a bright P Hd scholar in 2016 due to suspected injustice and insult happened in Hyderabad Central University (HCU) . He hanged himself to death, as he could bear the financial constraints he was put to by stopping his monthly stipend.   Bharat Mata lost one of its emerging stars. What I do not understand is whether he is OC or BC or SC or ST; he is a student of HCU, committed suicide due to prevailing situation in university as he mentioned in suicide note.   Unfortunately instead of showing empathy to the family the BJP Government and its senior leaders Sushma Swaraj, Smruti Irani tried to rake up caste controversy by claiming that Rohith is not from Dalit community.    There are clearly established cases and judgments in favour of Radhika Vemula to establish that their family belongs to SC community. In fact Guntur Mandal Revenue Officer gave SC certificate t...

AMBEDKARISM - EDUCATION IS MEDICINE FOR ALL SOCIAL EVILS  Dr B R AMBEDKAR – CHIEF ARCHITECT OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION Dr Ambedkar is a great soul born in India with exemplary knowledge and skills and always finds place on far with ever remembering freedom fighters and great leaders of the nation. Born as a Dalit, fighting socioeconomic conditions prevailing in those days and reaching to such a position, purely based on skill sets and fighting the system rather than sub serving it, is not an easy task and Mother India is always proud of this great soul. Despite Dr. Ambedkar’s ideological differences with Gandhi Ji on issues related to religion, caste, political reservations, untouchability etc, he was entrusted with the task of heading the group to prepare “Indian constitution”. It shows the maturity of socio-political leadership exhibited by our older generation leaders and I beg the present generation leaders to follow the path laid down and encourage talent rather t...

INJUSTICE  DONE TO AP- WILL THE WOUNDS HEAL? Earlier Andhra –Telangana Agitations:    AP bifurcation is the best example of how weak leadership can do irreparable damage to the citizens and nation. In 1953 after demise of Potti Sriramulu (who was on fast unto death for 50 days), separate Andhra state was formed by separating Telugu speaking areas from Madras state with Kurnool as capital. In 1956 united AP was formed by combining Telugu speaking parts of Nizam state with coastal and Rayalaseema districts with Hyderabad as capital city. Though there were separate Telangana movement (Jai Telangana) in 1969 lead by Late M Chenna Reddy and Jai Andhra movement in 1972 lead by Tenneti Viswanadham, A C Subba Reddy, Gouthu Lachanna, Kakani Venkataratnam, and others, they were successfully put to an end by strong leadership prevailed in the form of Mrs Indira Gandhi at centre and Kasu Brahmananda Reddy at state level. After these movements, there are no major di...

 2019 ELECTIONS  - SOUR GRAPES FOR MODI JI? https://grbonthu.blogspot.com/2018/05/political-parties-wake-up-2019-is-not.html I wrote and shared this blog on 10th May , just before Karnataka elections. Looks like downfall of BJP started with missing the bus by a fraction in Karnataka.  Results of four parliament and eleven assembly seats across the Nation gave a jolt to BJP which failed to retain most of the seats won by it earlier. The victory of Congress in Rajarajeswari nagar , Bangalore with huge margin is clear indication that southern state and Karnataka rejected the unethical methods used through Governor to form Government in Karnataka. Retention of Chengannur assembly segment by CPM and BJP loosing deposits is an indication that it’s a day dream for saffron party in Kerala. By wresting kairana parliament and Noorpur assembly seats from BJP, the united opposition victory spree in UP is continuing . Retaining Tharali assembly seat in Uttarkhand though wit...

CBN, UNCOMPROMISING LEADER – THE JOURNEY CONTINUES ……… Leadership is not about next election, it’s about the next generation. A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.  CHANDRABABU NAIDU: The above quote of Simon Sinek exactly reflects the personality of Sri. Chandrababu Naidu, whose untiring political journey over forty years brought laurels to Telugu community across the globe with his sheer hard work and futuristic thinking. Exactly four years back, residual Andhra Pradesh came into existence with huge budget deficit and no shelter to run its administration. With his exemplary leadership skills, CBN created temporary secretariat within 8 months span of time, shifted administration to new city –Amaravathi and proved that AP people are capable, committed, hard working and can do wonders under able leadership. Despite scarce resource...