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 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
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.
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.
Please read Sunday news paper of Andhra Jyothi to get more details on Maha Prasthanam movement in Andhra Pradesh.
17 May 2013
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
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
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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.
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/
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
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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
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.
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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).
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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
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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