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Weather

The Gannavaram airport recorded a maximum temperature of 31.1 degree Celsius and a minimum of 20.4 degree Celsius, on Friday. Humidity increased from 50 per cent in the morning to 64 per cent in the evening.

Commodity prices

The following were the prices (in rupees per kg) of essential commodities in the local wholesale market on Friday, according to Vijayawada Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Groundnut oil-52 , palmolein oil-41.50, sunflower oil-52.50, tamarind (flower variety)-33 to 39, tamarind (karipuli variety)-48 to 54, chillies (A.C)-23 to 28, (non-A.C)-14 to 18, rice 2716-12, rice (super fine)-13 to 14, rice (sona masoori)-15 to 16, black gram-22 and red gram-23.50.

Rehabilitation

sought

Leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) have demanded steps for rehabilitation of slum-dwellers near the Satyanarayanapuram railway track.

Speaking to reporters after inspecting the place where railway track has been removed and plans are afoot to construct a road, the party leaders, Ch. Babu Rao and Donepudi Kasinath, said though removal of the railway track was a welcome step, the authorities should also initiate measures for rehabilitation of slum-dwellers living there for the past four decades. They said since the track was removed, it was the responsibility of the officials to show them an alternative.

School for

child labour

The Vijayawada East MLA, V. Radhakrishna, on Friday, inaugurated a school for child labourers at Chuttugunta. The school is constructed by Gramodaya Organisation for Rural Development, a local NGO. The MLA also distributed textbooks to schoolchildren.

The Krishna district Child Labourers' Education Programme project director, K. Sivashankar, said boys and birls between 9 and 14 years would benefit from the scheme. A monthly scholarship of Rs. 100 would be deposited in the name of their parents and the children would also be the beneficiaries of the mid-day meal scheme, he added.

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