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Chiluvuru Schools
 
The Katragaada Society, a charitable trust founded by Katragadda family has founded schools to impart proper education. The village today has a high school, four primary schools, and two night schools called Yojana Centers that educate elders and farmers.

The Chiluvuru village gives great prominence to education and that reflects in the development of the village. Training more than 400 youths and 180 women from the self-help groups (SHGs) in computers, using the latest teaching aids like CDs and VCDs in the village school they have become more than computer literate.

Today villagers pay their utility bills online, download forms and Government circulars, see the voter list, see the land-use and cropping pattern, rainfall condition in the village, know about various Government schemes, apply for birth, death, nativity, community and other certificates. "There are no queues at the electricity revenue office now, you can walk in and pay the bill immediately," observed Pathuri Tatabbai a retired village servant.

Dasari Venkateswarlu, a turmeric farmer, was worried over the growth of the crop and could get the periodicity of fertilizer inputs, pesticide use and quantum of water for irrigation right from the field.

No scientist did all this information search for Venkateswarlu. It was his neighbour's son studying in Intermediate, who helped him out connecting to the Agriculture Department's website.

Women from nearby villages, who were mostly confined to kitchen or agriculture fields earlier, are able to assemble a computer and do the necessary hardware maintenance works confidently.

Nalini and Lakshmi Sujatha, housewives, are the hardware engineers of the village.

The relatives in the US, the UK and other countries have come closer to them now, observes Katragadda Charities.
 
   
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