Play active role in eradicating corruption, CP asks students

Hanamkonda: The Commissioner of police, G Sudheer Babu, asked the students to play an active role in eradicating the menace of corruption in the society. He flagged off a rally in Hanamkonda on Monday marking the Anti-Corruption Week, which started on Sunday. Large number of students and officials and members of social organisations took part in the rally that was taken out from Ekasila Park to Arts and Science College.

Addressing the gathering, the Commissioner stated that the State and Central governments have been implementing numerous welfare and developmental programmes for the benefit of poorer sections. But the fruits of such programmes were not reaching them because of corruption.

Therefore, the students, the future citizens of India should make committed efforts to fight against corruption and end it so as to ensure that the fruits of welfare reaches common public, Sudheer Babu said. Warangal Rural District Joint-Collector M Haritha noted that offering a bribe was also a crime like accepting a bribe. Hence the public should desist from offering bribe to get their works done in the government offices, she suggested.

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) DSP BV Satyanarayana, inspectors Venkateshwarlu and Vasala Sathish, Hanamkonda ACP Rajendra Prasad, Subedari inspector Sadaiah, and Youth for Swachh Warangal president Thota Pavan and its members of took part in the rally. The ACB DSP informed that essay writing competitions to the students of High Schools, Junior Colleges and Polytechnic Colleges (Boys and Girls) would be conducted on Tuesday. On Friday, the closing ceremony, administering of pledge, prize distribution to the winners of essay writing competitions and felicitation of complainants of convicted cases would take place.