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Tirupati residents donate for a cause

TIRUPATI: TTD Contractors Association has contributed Rs.2.60 lakh towards rehabilitation work taken up in Kurnool, Krishna, Mahabubnagar and Guntur districts.

The association office-bearers, led by president M. Narasimha Reddy and secretary G. Hemanth Reddy, called on the Executive Officer I.Y.R. Krishna Rao and presented a cheque drawn on ‘CM Relief Fund’ to him on Thursday. G.P. Sankar Reddy, a constable at Vadamalapet police station donated Rs.5,000 to the CM Relief Fund. He presented the cheque to the Superintendent of Police K. Lakshmi Reddy.

Students of SEICOM Degree College, led by director T. Surendranath Reddy, donated 2,100 kg of rice, cooking oil and tamarind, all worth Rs.80,000.

Meanwhile, Joint Collector B. Suresh Kumar paid a visit to the centralised relief material pooling centre at the municipal auditorium on Wednesday and inspected the rice bags, groceries, bed sheets and clothes mobilised by philanthropists from across the district and directed the staff members to dispatch them carefully to Kurnool.

He requested individuals and associations not to send the material on their own to Kurnool as it could lead to duplication or render the effort ineffective. MCT Commissioner P. Mohan Reddy and Urban MRO Kanaka Narasa Reddy were present.

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