Tendulkar plays Santa to small village

Raghuvir Srinivasan, writing in Business Line, brings out the story of how Sachin Tendulkar, in his role as a Member of Parliament, adopted a village, approximately 450 km from Hyderabad in South India, and is helping bring the facilities it needs.

The residents of Puttamraju Kandriga owe their modern infrastructure to a chance encounter that Joint Collector Rekha Rani had with Tendulkar on a flight to New York last September.

While construction of stormwater drains, underground sewage network and treatment plant and solid waste disposal site are nearing completion along with the roads, work has just begun on the community centre building and playground. These, along with a burial ground which is under development, will form part of the first phase of the project likely to be completed by November.