Nostalgic CM inaugurates Numaish
Hyderabad, Jan 1 (INN): A nostalgic Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday inaugurated the 71 All India Industrial Exhibition at Exhibition Grounds in Nampally. Talking to media persons after the inauguration ceremony, the Chief Minister recalled how he, as a child, start collecting money from December onwards so that he could buy the things he wanted from the Exhibition. KKR said that every time he visited the annual fair, he recalled the days of his childhood.
Expressing his happiness at the fact that 70 per cent of the Rs 14 crore which the Exhibition Society expected to earn through the 45-day event would be spent on furthering education and providing scholarships to students, mostly girls, KKR said that the Society had so far helped about 25,000 students this way. The Chief Minister recalled the words of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, recollecting the past that he was quite young at the time when Mr KKR further added that when he was small once inaugurated exhibition and said that 'giving education to one individual is like giving education to whole family.' He said that the government may have introduced the Right to Education now, but the Exhibition Society had implemented it since the past 71 years.
Advising students to pursue their academic career whole heartedly, the Chief Minister said that everything can be stolen from a man except his education. He also praised the Society for educating the girls and lauded the Society's efforts of helping the girls pursue their dreams. Exhibition Society president and Panchayat Raj Minister Jana Reddy said that the Exhibition had begun in 1938, when about a 100 Osmania University students had opened stalls in Public Gardens for the purpose of promoting business and industrial exhibits in Hyderabad city. He added that the Exhibition Society runs 18 colleges, including junior colleges to engineering colleges. He added that thus far, 28 lakh students have been benefited by the efforts of the Exhibition Society which has spent about Rs 3,000 crore in its 71 year old history.
News Posted: 1 January, 2011
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