Water Purification Plant (RO System) at ZPHS, Vunnava

You are cordially invited to the Inauguration of Mineral water plant at Z.P. High School – Vunnava.

Dear Friends,
As we discussed earlier. the mineral water plant for Vunnava Z.P. High School was successfully installed and is tested. It is ready for the inauguration by the Governor of Rotary club – India  on 21.11.2013 – Thursday.

All are cordially invited for the same.

On this occasion we would like to thank the below team of donors who supported us to make this activity successful. 

Total actual cost of the project is Rs.218000 RS.

Rotary Club –Chilakaluripet is bearing – 135000 Rs. ( To buy the equipment)
Galla sambasivarao Garu – 15000 Rs ( Matching fund to Rotary Club )
Galla koteswara rao Garu – 50000 ( Civil works at school Like Room for machine, Drainage system , multiple water taps..etc)
Dr. Galla raghu kishore Garu– 18000 ( To buy the new submersible motor to pump to overhead tank).

Special thanks to KSN Malleswararao Mastaru & School staff for coordinating the project from the beginning.

We will share the pictures of the project and inauguration event very soon.

thank you

SubbaRao Narne

vunnava.com dasara 2013 - news letter

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9UM5joeqV1NQmtVQ2doSnJnUU0/edit?usp=sharing

Vunanvites:

Please see Dasara 2013 issue profiling the schools, teachers and vunnava educational society at the above link. This document is also posted to the vunnava.com facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/vunnava)

Thanks to all who contributed articles to this issue.

This will be printed tomorrow and we plan to distribute the copies in the village by Monday. We will be mailing out the news letter to all Vunnavites who are living outside of Vunnava. If you have received Ugadi and Guru Purnima issues, there is no action needed. You will get Dasara issue as well. Otherwise, please send your address and contact details, we will post Dasara issue to you.

Thank you

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11 July 2013 (Prelude the gurupurnima edition)

(1st Row Sitting - from left to right)  1. Ghanta Venkateswarlu, 2. Vankayalapati Lakshminarayana, 3. Chennupati Yanadi

(2nd Row Standing - from left to right) 1. Manukonda Nagendram, 2. Kothapalli Gopalakrishna

(3rd Row Standing - from left to right) 1. (Makineni Brahmananda Rao OR Vunnava Madana Mohana Rao)  2. (Makineni Brahmananda Rao OR Vunnava Madana Mohana Rao)  3. Kharidu Venkateswarlu 4. Ravipati Rangaiah

29th June 2013

Congratulations to Chemitiganti Nageswara Rao (kattera narayanamma gari అల్లుడు) on his retirement after 32 years of his service as Chemistry Lectuer at DRNSCVS degree college, chilakaluripeta.

Congratulations to Gottam Veeraswamy - a vunnavite who retired today (saturday 29th June 2013) after 34 years of service (teaching social studies and english) in various zphs - tummalapalem, gottipadu, yanamadala.

24th June 2013

Thank you K S N Malleswara Rao Mastaru for nominating 4 students for best outgoing student awards. 2 toppers from English Medium and 2 Toppers from Telugu Medium. And those students are: 

Telugu Medium Toppers :

9.2 GP – Galla Triveni
9.0 GP – Galla Rajeswari

English Medium Toppers :

8.8 – Galla Kartikeyudu 
8.7 – Kolisetti Gayatri 

Congratulations to the toppers.

vunnava.com will make the arrangements to send them award certificates, and some prizes.

For your information, this is the project on the list. We originally wanted to give it 2 students. But just for this year, we will be giving to 2 students each. 


[E.18.1] Education: Outstanding Student Award - 10th graders (total 4 x 1250 each = Rs.5000)

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These awards will be presented to the students (or their parents) during August 15th celebrations

If any of you have the photos of these students, please send those to vunnava.com@gmail.com we will include the details in the next news letter "Gurupurnima 2013" issue which is coming out in mid july.

06 June 2013

Congratulations to Alladi Ratnanjali, d/o Alladi Bhaskar Naresh - for securing 752 rank in medicine. Way to go!

Congratulations to Gorantla Manasa, Daughter of Sridevi (Ongole), Grand Daughter of Bhagiradhudu Ghanta for securing 1186 Rank in Emcet (Medicine).

Congratulations to sowmya kurapati (daughter of kurapati nirmala and venkateswara rao;  grand daughter of kottapalli gopalakrishnaiah and pramila) for securing  1309 in medicine eamcet

01 June 2013

Congratulations to the organizing committee of district level cricket tournament and to the winning teams.

For the 2013 tournament, 

[1] A.M.B Youth (Ganapavaram) have won the match and grabbed the 1st prize 

[2] Runner up team Unnava FCC won the 2 nd prize

[3] 3rd place goes to Unnava Gola tem

Big thanks to the sponsors of the prizes - ners and special thanks to our Donors Kurra Rattayya Garu, Chennupati Rama chandra Prasad garu, Kandepu Seeta Ramayya Garu, Ghanta Veerayya Garu, Kommineni Venkata Subbarao Garu, Kamineni Adi Garu.

19 May 2013

Please read Sunday news paper of Andhra Jyothi to get more details on Maha Prasthanam movement in Andhra Pradesh.

http://www.andhrajyothy.com/ContentPage.jsp?story_id=1500&category=sunday_special

17 May 2013

Inspiring history from Vunnava.... (sharing what I heard, understand, interpreted from several sources; Please add / correct if there are any mistakes here)

Here is a picture of Gandhiji and Vunnava Raja Gopala krishnaiah (who belongs to our village). This is taken on 5th February 1946 - almost 1.5 years before India got its independence.

it seems Gopala Krishniah is default translator of Gandhiji speeches from Hindi to Telugu - whenever Gandhiji tours Andhra Pradesh. Gopala Krishnaiah and his brother Vunnava Venkata Ramaiah - are active in the independence movement through "Dakshina Bharata Hindi Prachar Sabha"

(From http://www.dbhpsabha.org/) 'Hindi Prachar Sabha’ was a movement that emerged as part of Freedom Movement and the leaders who led the nation to ‘FREE INDIA’ felt the necessity of making a single Indian Language the National Language,and through that language unify the people and thereby intensify National Integration.

It seems back in 1930s/40s, Vunnava also had an examination center for taking Hindi pradhamika, madhyamika, rashtra (different levels in hindi language exam). And many aspiring teachers from guntur and neighboring districts come to our village to take the exam.

This is one of the reasons why Vunnava has a rich history of producing so many Hindi teachers - ghanta venkateswarlu garu, chennupati yanadi mastaru, chennupati venkateswarlu mastaru, manukonda nagendram garu, kharidu venkateswarlu (and many more) - from our village.

We are now working to gather the details of all these teachers for inclusion into our next news letter.

9 May 2013

Please mark your calendars. Our next monthly meeting via conference call is on May 12th sunday (we have this monthly call every 2nd sunday of the month) at 8:30 PM (India Time)

Agenda: [1] (10 min) Socializing for the first 10 minutes

[2] (10 min) Update on the progress of the projects (YLTP, Cricket, Awards, year book)

[3] (20 min) (Maha Prasthanam / Burial Ground) Status of the donations and the project 

[4] (10 min) Next News Letter - Focus on Teachers

[5] (10 min) Suggestions, Proposals, Questions and Answers session - answering any questions from the community and getting the feedback on any projects/proposals/sponsorship, soliciting the feedback on doing better next time.

When: Sunday May 12th

Here are the Timings: 8:30 PM (India); 10 AM (USA-CST); 11 AM (USA-EST) 11 PM (Singapore); 3 PM (London); 5 PM (Capetown - South Africa)

Dialing Instructions:

Step 1: Dial into any one of these no

Mumbai(+91) 22 39804444

Bangalore(+91) 80 67224444

Delhi(+91) 11 66194444

Chennai(+91) 44 66894444

Hyderabad(+91) 40 66244444

Kolkata(+91) 33 66324444

Step 2 : Please use one of the following options to enter into the Conference (as we have a limit of 10 people per conference line, we have set up a conference of conferences)

Option 1: Conference ID: 1677396 Conference PIN: 8046 (if this conference is full, use the option 2) - 

Option 2: Conference ID: 1693400 Conference PIN: 8160 (if this conference is full, use the option 3)

Option 3: Conference ID: 1693956 Conference PIN: 5640

6th May 2013

If you want to learn more about the silent revolution happening in Guntur District in the construction of the burial grounds, here is your starting point - get these two books.

The work done by Maha Prasthana Seva Samithi and the guidance they are giving to many villages - are commendable and noble.

Let us all learn from other villages and work towards constructing burial ground in vunnava in the current year 2013.

ప్రతుల కొరకు:

గుమ్మడి రాధా కృష్ణ మూర్తి 

3-28-18/44,

4/2 బ్రందావన్  గార్డెన్స్ గుంటూరు - 522 006

ఫోన్: 0863-2258338

సెల్: 9440452388

2nd May 2013

Vunnava Maha Prasthanam (Burial Ground) Updates

The village doesn't have proper cemetery now. If it rains, it causes lot of problems for the people at the site and also even to approach. There is high need to construct the approach road as well as some facility to complete the formalities even if it rains.

Based on the feedback and interest, we have been elaborating this proposal further and we have talked to Gummadi Radhakrishnamurthy Garu (Board member of Maha Prasthanam Committee, Guntur). They have constructed around 50 burial grounds in Guntur District. Our village is now catching up with the rest of the villages and following that model.

We have reached a stage where we can propose maha prasthanam project with all of you with the estimation breakup and execution plan.

[1]  Gummadi garu visited Vunnava along with Jasthi Ramarao on April 14th;

Got good feedback from Gummadi garu on the list of items that need to be done and also the sequence of activities.

The total estimate seem to be coming around between 5,50,000 to 6,00,000 (5.5 to 6 lakhs) as follows.

No	Item	Estimate (Rupees)
1	Leveling the land: We need to cut the weeds and level the land first with JCB tractors	5000
2	Planting the trees: We need to then plant some native plants to give the place some character and shape	5000
3	Maintaining the trees: We need to arrange small fence around the tree and water the trees for 2.5 years. Taking care of the trees until these take roots and establish.	10000
4	Compound wall: We then need to build a compound wall around the mahaprasthanam	100000
5	Gate and Arch: Once the compound wall is built, we need to finish the entrace with a gate and arch	40000
6	Kiln to Cremate: This is for creamating the body. For our village size, one kiln is sufficient.	60000
7	Shed covering the kiln: This shed covers the kiln from the weather (rain, wind, sun)	250000
8	Room and Slab: We need to build a slabbed room for the people to perform the last rites (for hair cutting, taking bath, changing the dress, urinals). (for hair cutting, bath, changing the clothes)	100000
9	Approach (concrete cement) road to mahaprasthanam

[3]  Vunnava Maha Prasthanam steering committee - for coordinating the execution of the project - is formed with the following members to begin with. 

vunnava.com thanks them for their time and efforts in coordinating this project

Chennupati  (munsif) Veeraraghavaiah	9247174461
Kommineni Nageswara Rao	9949306877
Kurra Sambiah
Kharidu Sreenu
Ghanta Veera Raghavaiah

That is a good team who can rally the community together. However, the donors also have the option of adding additional members to the maha prasthanam committee. Donors have equal obligation to ensure that the money they are donating is property being used and quality work is being done. 

[4] Vunnava Maha Prasthanam Steering Committee would be getting the guidance from the following as required

Gummadi Radhakrishna Murthy Garu (Maha Prasthanam Committee, Guntur)

Ummineni Ranga Rao (Chirala) (civil engineer who provided technical consulting to several projects)

Kurra Rambabu, Annapurna Architects (Guntur) (who has the expertise in planning the constructions per vastu and who is familiar with vunnava logistics).

[5]  We believe that this project can be completed in the year 2013 with all your support and interest.  If any of your are interested to sponsor one or several of the items listed above, please let us know at vunnava.com@gmail.com   Local community members are also trying / exploring options to secure the funding from government agencies.  We will share the project progress and donor information in the next news letter of vunnava.com (coming out in July 1st week)

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

1st May 2013

Congratulations to Samineni Koteswara Rao garu on his recognition by Government of Andhra Pradesh during May Day Celebrations.

Brief Bio: s/o late sri panayya samineni; Chairman and Managing Director - Sri Anantha Lakshmi Spinning Mills, Governing Body Member of AP Spinning Mills Association, Governing Body Member of Jayapradamba Degree College, Ex-Vice Chairman of AP Spinning Mills Association

24 April 2013

23 April 2013

Maha Prasthanam (Burial Ground) proposal is coming to a form and shape. We will share the proposal in a couple of days, soliciting the community support. Stay tuned for further details!

20 April 2013

Here are the outstaanding students from 5th grade from each of the elementaray schools; Award certificates and school bags are distributed to them this week. If you bump into them, congratulate them. 

Thanks to the headmasters of the school for their nominations, and to Peddi Koteswara Rao for his sponsorship of the award and to Peddi Sambasivarao garu and Mamillapalli Srikrishna for the execution support in carrying out this project.

MPPS ME - Main Elementary School 
(G) Chattu Venkata Lakshmi (చట్టు వెంకట లక్ష్మి)
(B) Mallela Siva Teja (మల్లెల శివ తేజ)

MPPS HE - Hindu Elementary School 
(G) kharidu Keerthi (ఖరీదు కీర్తి)
(B) gottam seshagiri (గొట్టం శేషగిరి)

MPPS SN - Surya Nagar Elementary School
(G) prattipati sundaramma (ప్రత్తిపాటి సుందరమ్మ)
(B) prattipati sudhir (ప్రత్తిపాటి సుదీర్)

MPPS LE - Luthern Elementary School
(G) dantu srilatha (దంటు శ్రీలత)
(B) dantu ravi (దంటు రవి)

18 April 2013

శ్రీరామ నవమి శుభాకాంక్షలు 

17th April 2013

Here are Youth Leadership Training Program-2013 Participants from vunnava. Congratulations guys! Vunnava.com appreciates your initiative. 

13th April 2013

Are you between 18 -35 years of age? Do you want to make good use of your summer break? Are you looking for a job and want to develop some positive attitude and confidence? Are you interested to attend a training program in Bangalore for 8 days? If interested, please contact us by 20th April Saturday. Please see below for further details.

[C26] Community: Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) (Sponsored by Kiran Manukonda s/o Bollaiah and Padmavathi)

Description:  (Proposed by Kiran Manukonda s/o Bollaiah and Padmavathi) Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) is a training program conducted by Back To The Roots Project. The training will be in Bangalore. Please see the pictures of this training program to get some idea of the training  https://picasaweb.google.com/103044110483689973415  and http://backtotherootsproject.org/Programs.aspx



We are looking for 7 energetic youth from Vunnava with enthusiasm who can spend 8 days in Bangalore.  The fee for participant is Rs.2,500 per each participant. And another Rs.1,000 for train/bus ticket charges.  These expenses will be supported by Kiran Manukonda
If any of you are interested to participate in this training, please let us know. We are aiming for the Batch-1. 7 candidates will be picked on first come-first serve basis. It can be boys or girls from ages of 18 to 35 (10th class to degree). This training program has good reputation in giving the confidence, good perspective/positive attitude for the training participants.   Kiran or vunnava.com is not expecting anything from the participants. We would like to identify 7 people from vunnava who can attend this program and we believe that the positive energy/attitude they gain in the training will help the village in one or other way.

Those interested (any youth who want to make good use of the summer break and any youth who are looking for jobs and are currently idle - are appropriate) - please send your details to vunnava.com or leave a comment on the facebook by 20th April Saturday.

YLTP Batch-1 of 500 youth from AP:
Dates: 29-APR-2013 to 06-MAY-2013 – 8 Full Days
Report in Bangalore on: 28-APR-2013
Depart from Bangalore on: 07-MAY-2013
Venue: Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Peeth and the Art of Living International Center
21st Km., Kanakpura Road, Udayapura, Bangalore South – 560082

YLTP Batch-2 of 500 youth from AP:
Dates: 19-MAY-2013 to 26-MAY-2013 – 8 Full Days
Report in Bangalore on: 18-MAY-2013
Depart from Bangalore on: 27-MAY-2013
Venue: Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Peeth and the Art of Living International Center
21st Km., Kanakpura Road, Udayapura, Bangalore South – 560082

12 April 2013

Cricket Players of Vunnava preparing the cricket pitch for summer and for the cricket tournament

11 April 2013

విజయ ఉగాది శుభాకాంక్షలు 

10 April 2013

Congratulations to our beloved teacher

Sri Bakka Kotaiah

on his retirement (10 April 2013)

Our big  “Thank You” to your dedicated service to vunnava schools

9 April 2013

A non-profit organization based in Hyderabad is organizing IMPACT 2013 (personality development courses). It is free of cost and is quite useful to the unemployed youth to get some insights into soft skills and how to improve those. It is not clear to me how many vunnavites are looking / searching for a job to communicate to them directly. Please pass on this information to them. Again, the IMPACT 2013 is in Hyderabad from May1st to 12th. And you can register at http://www.gampa.in/reg.php

5 April 2013

Vunnava.com ugadi 2013 news letter can be found at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9UM5joeqV1NVXdXREJQekgwa3c/edit?usp=sharing

Please read and provide your feedback. Thanks to the management of Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT), Guntur - for sponsoring the print edition of the book.

Next issue will be published in July 2nd week. If you like to share anything through the news letter, please provide your inputs through vunnava.com@gmail.com

3 April 2013

A classic picture sent in by Pratap Kurra (1991 Sankranthi Celebrations in Vunnava)

Pictures of Panchayati Office

2 April 2013

The first news letter of vunnava.com is printed. The distribution of the news letter starts tomorrow (guntur, vunnava). If you need a paper copy, please contact Peddi Sambasivarao  at 9441065414 

and provide your mailing address / pick up a copy in person. We will also post the e-version of the news letter to facebook group and to the web by Friday.

1 April 2013

We are happy to announce the governing body of vunnava.com  https://www.facebook.com/groups/vunnava/)

29 March 2013

The first news letter of vunnava.com is almost ready. It will be printed on April 1st and will be mailed out during first week of April so that it reaches you by Ugadi.

If any of vunnavites are living outside of vunnava, and do not have email / web access, please let us know their contacts and mailing addresses. We will make sure that they receive a copy of the news letter. 

We will also introduce the profiles of the governing body of vunnava.com on April 1st and these profiles will also be included in the news letter.

We also thank the management of "VVIT - Vasireddy Venkadri Institute of Technology, Guntur" for sponsoring the first issue of the news letter (printing and mailing costs).

ఉన్నవ.కామ్ మొట్ట మొదటి వార్త పత్రిక ముద్రణ, పొస్టెజ్ ఖర్చులను భరించి, ఈ సంస్థ యొక్క ఆశయాలకు మద్దతు పలికిన "వాసిరెడ్డివేంకటాద్రి ఇన్స్టిట్యూట్ అఫ్ టెక్నాలజీ, గుంటూరు" యాజమాన్యానికి ధన్యవాదాలు.

26 March 2013

Here is our future of vunnava - 20 years down the line.

Surya Nagar Elementary School (SN)

Hindu Elementary School (HE), Next to Yanadi Master's house

Luthern Elementary School, Udayapauri (LE)

Main Elementary School (ME), next to ZPHS

20 March 2013

Looks like it is a tradition for the 9th graders to give farewell to 10th graders at ZPHS, Vunnava. Here are the pictures from this years event. Who can tell the names of the teachers? Leave the comment. The picture with the most LIKES will get included in the school year book (LIKE it in the facebook group).

16 March 2013

Soft Skills and Personality Development

15 March 2013:

Two projects (E18.1) and (E.34) have been claimed by Peddi Koteswara Rao, s/o Peddi Hanumantha Rao. Thank you, Mr. Rao.

14 March 2013

Happy PI day to all the students and teachers.

Listen to the Guntur District Collector's message to all 10th students wishing them all the best in their final exams.

13 March 2013

Vunnavites: If you are not part of the facebook group "https://www.facebook.com/groups/vunnava/", please consider joining to ensure that you are catching up with the live updates.

12 March 2013:  

All the teachers list and their contacts from all the schools are now published at

 http://www.vunnava.com/2013/02/pupils-students-teachers-schools.html

You can also click on Pupils on left hand navigation.

If you have studies from any of the schools and if you have a teacher who have influenced your life in a positive way, please pick up the phone and call them. And also find out the needs of the schools and let us know

Thank you

05 March 2013

Vunnavites:

You can see the number of graduates from ZPHS for the last 18 years. Over 1000 people have passed 10th grade from our school. Despite many private schools, the enrollments in the high school are very impressive.

You can see the list of all the graduates from ZPHS by the year at this link. You can also go to this list by clicking on "Pupils" on the left hand side

                       

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