HC judge celebrates New Year’s Eve at VMC old age home
The Hindu
Civic staff’s initiative is worth emulating, says Justice Devanand
Andhra Pradesh High Court judge Justice Battu Devanand along with his wife Padmakumari, managing trustee of Battu Venkata Ratnam Charitable Trust, celebrated the New Year’s Eve with the inmates of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation’s old age home in the city on Saturday.
Accompanied by Municipal Commissioner V. Prasanna Venkatesh and his wife, Justice Devanand and family spent time with the inmates who were rescued from the streets by municipal employees. The home is an initiative of the municipal employees led by Mr. Prasanna Venkatesh.
The judge’s family took part in cake cutting and served food to the inmates besides donating them clothes.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.