GUNTUR: Telugu cine hero Mahesh Babu will visit his birthplace Burripalem very soon for developing it. Mahesh’s wife Namrata and elder sister Padmavati visited Burripalem in Tenali mandal of Guntur district on Thursday.
Ms Namrata said that Mahesh Babu wanted to visit Burripalem to interact with the locals but due to the busy shooting schedule he did not come. She said that soon she will once again visit Burripalem with Mahesh.
She said that adoption of the village was not limited to road construction or others but the aim of is total development and turning the village into modern and smart town.
She praised Swachch Bharat, the brain child of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and smart village, the dream of development of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. She said both concepts are yielding good results and asked the villagers to shun liquor consumption, gutkha and other bad habits.
Ms Namrata appealed to the public to shun open defecation and asserted on the need for 100 per cent toilets construction in Burripalem. She said that illiteracy is the main barrier for development and announced that they are planning to start an adult education centre to turn Burripalem into a complete literate village.
Mentioning about the importance of environment protection, she said that they will promote tree plantation and would turn Burripalem into a clean and green village. Ms Namrata said that Mahesh very much likes Burripalem. So, he asked her to know the difficulties of the public and appealed to the villagers to extend their cooperation for Smart Burripalem.
The Anganwadi workers and Dwcra group women took the issue of absence of permanent buildings and the locals mentioned about the difficulties due to poor drainage, absence of protected drinking water, APSRTC bus service, damaged roads, improvement of basic amenities and modernisation of government school buildings.
They recalled that the grandmother of Mahesh had earlier worked for the development of ZP high school, developed local temple and provided bank facility to the village and sought development of Burripalem. Ms Namarata and Ms Padamavati received memorandums from the locals and assured about development of Burripalem in all aspects.
