JNJMACHS thanks CM for house sites to journalists

HYDERABAD: The Jawaharlal Nehru Journalists Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society (JNJMACHS) passed a unanimous resolution expressing gratitude to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao for adopting a favourable stand towards the society since the formation of Telangana state in 2014.

The society also thanked the CM for taking a policy decision to provide house sites to all the journalists of the society without regional bias. The society hoped that all the other eligible journalists in Hyderabad will get house sites soon with the initiative of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao.

The general body meeting of JNJMACHS was held at the society's Nizampet site here on Sunday which was attended by a large number of society's journalist members. The meeting felt that the initiative of IT minister K.T. Rama Rao to provide house sites to eligible journalists in the city who are not part of any housing society, in the wake of Supreme Court judgment in favour of JNJMACHS, and the steps accordingly initiated by the Telangana Press Academcy were a welcome move.

The society passed a unanimous resolution thanking Rama Rao for this initiative. The meeting urged the CM and Rama Rao to hand over the remaining 38 acres of land in Petbasheerabad to JNJMACHS at the earliest.

JNJMACHS president and BRS Andhole MLA Chanti Kranthi Kiran said that the previous governments in undivided AP had failed to hand over land to society for a decade even after it paid crores of rupees to the government.

After the formation of Telangana state, the society got the land at Nizampet with the directions of Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao. Kiran said that the affidavit filed by the state government in the Supreme Court in August last year played a key role in getting a favourable judgement for the society.

Kiran thanked the CM, Rama Rao and finance minister T. Harish Rao for taking steps in filing an affidavit in favour of the society.

The general body meeting reposed complete faith in the leadership of the existing society committee securing the land at Petbasheerabad.

JNJMACHS CEO N.Vamsi Srinivas, vice-president Palle Ravi Kumar, directors K. Ravikanth Reddy, B.N.Jyothi Prasad besides Nemani Bhaskar were present in the meeting.