Rayagada MLA Appalaswamy sustains his Good Samaritan initiatives: empathizes with very senor old persons of tribal villages
Rayagada (Badal Tah): The first time elected Congress MLA Appalaswamy Kadraka has kept continuing his social work as far as the poor and oppressed, especially tribal & dalits, are concerned. Prior to being MLA he left a pug mark in carrying & arranging firewood himself for the last rites of the poor, who left for heavenly abode. Come winter, Apaalaswamy distributes sarees & winter clothes to poor women of tribal habitats and slums of Rayagada. He also has taken a few steps in suggesting few development works to be taken up in 506 acres of land restored from defunct Jeypore Sugar Company at Rayagada.
Recently, when he saw a few very old persons were walking with sticks under the scorch light sun to their village Tadama, around fifteen kilometers from Rayagada block headquarters, after receiving their old age pension, he stopped his vehicle on the railway over bridge & discussed about their plight. When he came to know that as there is no bank in their gram panchayat and they have to commute around thirty kilometers by walk to withdraw money from the bank in Rayagada town, he was anguished over the whole issue. He then called an auto rickshaw and dispatched those poor and ailing senior citizens to their village.
“Not just because I have become the MLA, I am doing this sort of social activities. I have been doing it before and continue to do so even after my tenure of being MLA. I am really concerned that the old people have to traverse miles from their villages by walk to receive a paltry amount. They can not afford to pay for transport; so go through this distress condition. Though there is a provision that the pension through banks must reach at their doorsteps, this is not happening at ground zero. The district administration must intervene. I will take up this issue during the next assembly session”, rued Appalaswamy, who has raised questions on plethora of issues pertinent to Rayagada at Odisha Assembly.
