Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy inaugurated the 71st All India Industrial Exhibition at Nampally.
A nostalgic Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy inaugurated the 71st All India Industrial Exhibition at Exhibition Grounds in Nampally on Saturday.
Talking to media persons after the inauguration ceremony, the Chief Minister recalled how he, as a child, used to start collecting money from December onwards so that he could buy the things he wanted from the exhibition.
Kiran Reddy said that every time he visited the annual fair, he recalled the days of his childhood.
Expressing his happiness at the fact that 70% 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 girl students, Kiran Reddy said that the society had so far helped about 25,000 students that way.
He said that the government might have introduced Right To Education now, but the Exhibition Society had been implementing it since the past 71 years.
Advising students to pursue their academic career whole heartedly, the Chief Minister said that everything could be stolen from a man except his education. He also praised the society for educating 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 ran 18 colleges including junior colleges and engineering colleges. He added that 28 lakh students had been benefited by the efforts of the Exhibition Society so far, which had spent about Rs. 3,000 crore in its 71 year old history.