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Rajya Sabha member Sachin Tendulkar shared images of his visit with his followers.
Updated : Sep 30, 2017, 10:30 AM IST
Rajya Sabha member Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday visited Andhra Pradesh's Puttamraju Kandrika village which he had adopted under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana and interacted with the villagers and officials.
Sachin had taken up several development works at a cost of over Rs 2.78 crore in this village under Gudur mandal in Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore district. He inaugurated a community development building and interacted with villagers and officials on the implementation of Swachh Bharat initiatives.
Here's a tweet by Sachin of his visit to the village:
Completely stumped by the love of people from Puttamraju Kandriga! Glad to announce that they are now Open Defecation Free! @swachhbharat pic.twitter.com/iPwo6Pqt4Y
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) November 16, 2016
PR Kandrika was rated as the best village under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana in various parameters fixed by the central government.
Sachin had first visited the village on the same day two years ago and had laid foundation stone for various development works. Incidentally, it was on the same day in 2013 that the legend formally retired from cricket.
The village Puttamrajuvari Kandriga in Andhra has undergone complete transformation which Sachin declared "Open defecation free" in a function. The legend also distributed cricket bats and sporting kits to children at the newly constructed play ground in the village on the occasion of completion of Phase I of the development.
Tendulkar came forward to adopt Gram Panchayat of Nernoor and habitation of Puttamrajuvari Kandriga in the month of November 2014 under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. The Nernoor Gram Panchayat comprises three habitations Puttamrajuvari Kandriga, Nernoor and Gollapalli with 627 households and 1895 population. The villagers were mainly engaged in the occupation of horticulture, fisheries, animal husbandry.
Here are more tweets by Sachin of his visit:
It has been two years since Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was launched by @PMOIndia Shri @narendramodi, focusing on development in villages. pic.twitter.com/NB6Np39lXT
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) November 16, 2016
The Yojana launched by @PMOIndia aims at holistic development of villages & creating an Adarsh village with motivated people. pic.twitter.com/q0OF1ekfN2
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) November 16, 2016
Proud to state our adopted village Puttamraju Kandriga is open defecation free #SwachhBharat The phase 1 work of SAGY is complete! @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/zAXK8ernUK
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) November 16, 2016
The sleepy village which was languishing in the darkness till Tenduljar adopted it is lighted up with 24x7 power supply. The womenfolkhad to walk long ways to get drinking water and today, the village has uninterrupted water supply and every house has a meter also.
The village had dusty mud roads and presently, it boasts of wide and well maintained CC Roads. The village where cleanliness and hygiene were unheard of and open defecation was widely prevalent, is today an ODF village. The village has an underground drainage system in place as of today.