Visakhapatnam: MLA aspirants in Visakhapatnam urban are spending their own money to fund the government’s welfare schemes for the poor who had missed it due to technical problems.
These aspirants are also funding those who were ineligible for the housing, health and pension schemes.
Visakha Dairy chairman Adari Anand Kumar, who is coordinator for Visakhapatnam West constituency, so far provided funds to 20 families for building houses in their own land. Similarly, he is paying pension to 300 odd persons who could not avail it due to technical snags and to some who were ineligible under the government scheme.
As a chairman of AP MSME Development Corporation, Ananda Kumar built a skill development centre in his own premises and began training the unemployed. “So far 2,500 youths got employment through the job melas organised by Ananda Kumar,’’ said government adviser on skill development, G. Sridhar Reddy.
His close aides said Ananda Kumar has also funded heart surgeries, cancer treatment and made arrangements for monthly supply of medicines to several patients in the constituency.
In addition, he laid roads in inaccessible areas like hilltop slums and installed street lights.
Recently Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy launched his App “Meeto Anand’’ through which people could reach him to explain their problems.
