Andhra Pradesh: President to meet women achievers during her visit in Tirupati
The Hindu
Droupadi Murmu will also look at projects taken up in the temple town to ensure women’s empowerment
President of India Droupadi Murmu will take a brief look at the various projects under way in Tirupati to ensure empowerment and all-round development of women during her visit on Monday.
In addition to having darshan of Sri Venkateswara and Goddess Padmavati temples, the President will participate in a programme at Sri Padmavati Women’s University (SPMVV) where she will interact with the women achievers, including E. Rajani, the Indian women’s hockey player from Tirupati who participated in 110 international matches and won the Tokyo Olympics 2016, won gold medal at the Asian Cup in 2017, silver medal in Asian Games 2018 at Jakarta and Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Ms. Murmu will interact with K. Radha Devi, a hair tonsurer at Tirumala. It was with Ms. Radha Devi’s intervention that 1,200 women barbers were employed at the Kalyanakatta (tonsuring centre) of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).
She will also meet M.V.S.N. Durga, a prominent Kuchipudi dancer, and also A. Sridevi, a microbiologist who currently manufactures aqua, probiotic feed supplements and bio decomposers from the fruit pulp industry.
he Tamil Nadu Government will take appropriate decision to protect the welfare and livelihood of Manjolai tea estate workers as Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, which is managing the tea gardens for the past 90-odd years, is about to wind up its operations in near future, Speaker M. Appavu has said.