Dist Women’s Congress donates house to Mark Indira Gandhi’s Birth Centenary

Dist Women’s Congress donates house to Mark Indira Gandhi’s Birth Centenary

Udupi: To mark the birth centenary of former prime minister of India late Indira Gandhi, the Udupi district women’s congress had taken the initiative to help the needy and has built a house at Achladi-Madhuvana near Kota and donated it to Jalaja Pana who is economically very poor and is a daily wage lobourer.

The district minister in-charge Pramod Madhwaraj on Thursday, November 23 inaugurated the House and handed over the house key to Jalaja Pana.

Addressing the gathering Pramod recalled Indira Gandhi’s sacrifices and yeomen service to the poor and downtrodden. Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi functioned in the fairest manner and became a source of inspiration, not just to the party leaders but to every section of the society. She was instrumental in streamlining development through changes like the nationalization of banks and the twenty point programmes. Indira Gandhi was responsible for introducing land reforms. It was she who brought in land reforms, which made poor tillers the owners of the fields which they ploughed. She also gave sites and came up with housing schemes for the poor.

In Udupi constituency we have built 70 houses with the help of genorus donors and handed them over to those who are economically very poor in the society. Many people have been criticising our work but we will continue our good work, he added.

District women’s congress president Veroncia Cornelio, district congress president Janardhan Tonse, Congress leader M A Gafoor, Muniyalu Udaykumar Shetty, Ibraheem Saheb, Shanker A Kunder, Shyamala Bhandary, Jayshree Raj, Roshni Olivera, Dr Sunitha Shetty, Joythi Hebbar and others were present.