KCR, Narendra to fight fluorosis in Nalgonda

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KCR, Narendra to fight fluorosis in Nalgonda

Andhracafe.com - March 31, 2007

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K. Chandrashekhar Rao and senior party leader A. Narendra will camp in various villages of Nalgonda from April 6 to 12 to mobilise people for an agitation against the Government's alleged indifference to tackling the fluorosis problem in Andhra Pradesh.

At a news conference here on Friday, Mr. Rao said they would make night halt in villages for six days. Mr. Narendra was also present at the meet.Mr. Rao also said, camping in villages was part of a programme proposed by TRS to despatch teams to villages and municipalities in all the 59 mandals of Nalgonda district. The teams would visit about 1,500 habitations to spread awareness among people to launch
an agitation demanding safe drinking water.

The danger of consuming water with fluoride content that disabled lakhs of people in the district wound be explained to them. The TRS chief said the party proposed to take up another programme to focus on the irregularities committed by the State
Government in land transactions. The intervention by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be sought.

To facilitate the celebration of the sixth anniversary of TRS on April 27 in a big way, Mr. Rao said it was decided that the party leaders do manual labour on April 17 and 18 for raising funds.The centenary celebrations of Babu Jagjivan Ram would be held at the party office on April 5, he added.

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