Mr. Chitha Vijay Prathap Reddy, better known as Vijay, is a well-known social activist and Philanthropist who, rather than restricting his work to a single scope, has broadened his horizons by pledging to provide social service in a range of fields by catering to the requirements of people, as on individual basis as well as through organizations such as the St. Antony Trust Founder&Chairperson and the Andhra Pradesh Food Commission Chairman (A.P.F.C.).

CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION:

On the 15th of February, 1972, Vijay Prathap Reddy was born to the couple Mr. Chitha Showry Reddy and Mrs. Chitha Anthonamma and resided at Porumamilla in Kadapa district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Vijay hails from a humble background, He dropped out of school by earning his Secondary Board of Education in 1988 from Zilla Parishad High School at Porumamilla of Kadapa District. Later, he went to Vignan Residential Junior College to complete his Intermediate Education in 1991 situated at Badvel.

Vijay graduated with a degree(B.A) in 1995 from Osmania University in Hyderabad and also Graduated with B.Ed in 1996 from Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu and M.A in 1999 from Osmania University in Hyderabad. Despite having enormous family duties, he always had better professional and educational accomplishments.

CAREER IN SOCIAL LIFE:

St. Antony’s E.M School

Raised in a well-educated family, I inevitably had a strong passion for learning. He is a firm believer that “Anyone may attain freedom and prosperity with the correct education and justice. To encourage himself through education, he has resolved to concurrently update himself and others. His parents, who were both teachers, instilled in him strong moral principles and implanted in him a strong work ethic. Since he was in an underprivileged and isolated location, he experienced the difficulties that individuals without access to quality educational institutions encountered.

As Education is not a means of earning a livelihood, but of becoming competent enough to contribute to the world through a respectable career. To inculcate the true ideals of an educated individual, the conventional education system must be reinvented.

Based on this criterion, Vijay established a St.Antony’s E.M High School in his very hometown, Porumamilla in the year 2000 to build future leaders who will be able to guide and progress the development of their communities It is a far-reaching project aimed at improving school education.

Vijay is acting as the Founder and the Chairperson of the School and carrying out activities that benefit the people by assisting those in need, he earned the adoration of the whole society. His early commitment to the change in Education System gained him a reputation as an educated man.

He cherished improving the education of rural youngsters in Porumamilla and neighboring communities. He worked tirelessly for the progress of both the student community and the institution. He developed the school up to a level with any other corporate school in the district in terms of state-of-the-art resources, such as competent faculty, extraordinary infrastructure, modern labs, etc. Now, it is a well-known institution where every pupil feels at home and is pursuing total knowledge-based understanding with freedom and respect.

St. Antony’s is a widespread child development School in India, especially in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. As it includes the growth of children through the promotion of their rights, education, excellent care, help, and protection.

Primary Objective: The primary purpose is to develop learners into creative, introspective, and self-assured individuals with a caring attitude toward variety and a sense of pride in their heritage, as well as leaders with the intellectual and practical skills to make constructive, long-term choices.

CAREER IN POLITICS:

Vijay entered politics with a passion to serve the people by joining the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party(YSRCP) in 2011 and worked as an Active Member for a few years by discharging his duties with a code of conduct. As a part of YSRCP, Vijay expresses keen interest and performs every activity for the recognition of the respective party.

He was appointed as the “Kadapa District Chairman of the Agrigold Baditula Basata Committee” in 2018 and organized a strike in Kadapa and Vijayawada in support of the victims of Agrigold, gathering people from throughout the Kadapa region to demand justice on their behalf.

Because of his commitment, enthusiasm, and selflessness on behalf of the people of the state and the requirements of the people in the state, In the year 2022, Vijay was given the position of “Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Food Commission” by doing his part to mitigate the difficulties experienced by people.

The government has appointed CH Vijay Pratap Reddy of the Kadapa district as the State Food Commission’s Chairperson. According to directives issued by Girija Shankar, ex-officio secretary of the Civil Supplies Department, he will occupy the position for five years.

Vijay’s Primary Services To The People-

• Due to his prominence in the area of education, he became aware of the difficulties in government offices and the school system, which prompted him to enter politics to enhance the quality of education.
• With the backing of the people, he was elected to the position of MPP. As a member of the provincial parliament, he visited each school in Porumamilla Mandal, discussed the difficulties of students and teachers, and guaranteed that the issues would be resolved.
• Those teachers who were neglectful of their responsibilities were redirected by him. During his tenure, several issues affecting school-aged children were resolved. During his tenure, not only schools but also government offices at the Mandal level were significantly reformed.
• As there was a significant lack of water in many villages in the Mandal at the time, he devised a remedy by drilling bore wells with government support.
• Now, these settlements are refurbished with all the necessary accessories and there is no water shortage. He used to spend time with locals around the clock to learn about their concerns and to do his best to solve them promptly. More than 200 older adults who forfeited their pensions owing to technological glitches had his assistance.

As an Andhra Pradesh Activist-

He was aware of the relevance of United Andhra Pradesh since he was a political science graduate. His participation in organizing people to participate in various campaigns, roadshows, strikes, rallies, and “Vanta-Varpu” programs was crucial during the “Samaikyandhra Movement.”

Cultural programs, motivational speeches, brochures, and booklets were some of the methods he used to raise awareness about the significance of a unified Andhra Pradesh among the general public. During this time, he earned recognition and people realized that he is selfless in his service to the community and in his efforts to assist those in need. They have always been there for him in all of his endeavors.

Activities Performed-

• Before entering politics, he faces several hurdles. After becoming a politician, the most difficult challenge he had was supporting the sarpanch candidate to win the election against a formidable opponent. He backed Adiboina Siddamma, the YSRCP Sarpanch candidate, to win Rangasamudram Panchayat, a significant panchayat in the district and his panchayat. With his whole commitment and a Society-centered political approach, he was able to accomplish his aspirations.
• “Health is wealth,” as the saying goes, and he wanted to help the impoverished by providing them with good, wholesome meals. He started a canteen for five rupees. He provided meals at the government offices at Porumamilla Mandal headquarters for only Rs. 5 to the people in need. He nourished several underprivileged pregnant women and supplied carts to merchants who rely only on cart sales for their livelihoods, he said. The fact that he was able to feed pregnant ladies at Anganwadi centers with a healthy lunch made him feel honored.
• In 2004, Vijay founded the St. Antony’s Trust for the benefit of those who couldn’t pay or receive basic services. Working as the “President of an Intermediate Panchayat”, which is a kind of local self-government, I was a catalyst in changing the lives of vulnerable people through the effective implementation of a variety of development and welfare operations. To create an equitable living environment in which all members of the community, including those from marginalized groups, have equal access to quality education, health, nutrition, food security, safe drinking water, sanitation, and livelihood opportunities, regardless of their social or economic status. a benevolent trust, an educational institution, a hospital, an orphanage home, and an elderly age home
• Over the last two decades, both as an individual and as a managerial trustee, he has engaged in a wide range of activities, spending substantial sums raised through his resources and the support of other family members on things like the free distribution of rations to patients who are confined to bed.
• Health clinics, including free dentistry and orthopedic clinics, are organized. providing low-income college students with free bus rides. mobilization of financial support for temple construction. the giving out of blankets to women in need.
• Children who have been left orphaned may now get an education. Clothing for blind individuals living in a blind people’s ashram is given out monetary contributions to assist in the establishment of senior living facilities. contribution to the Crematory of a freezer box. Tree saplings are given out to increase the amount of vegetation. Fire victims, tsunami survivors, and their families will get support.
• As a key political executive at the Mandal level and as the head of Mandal Praja Parishad, he has played an instrumental role in the development of the Mandal through effective coordination with MPPs, MLAs, MLCs, Chairman ZPP, ZPTs, and officials at various levels.
• In addition to executing numerous initiatives using Mandal Parishad’s general finances, he made it a priority as president of the Mandal Parishad to do all in my power to ensure that all of the government’s key initiatives reached the people for whom they were intended.
• Drafted plans for the coordinated development of the Mandal region, with the goals of establishing basic infrastructure, cultivating human resources, and expanding natural resources.
• Cooperated with sarpanches and MPTCs for the redressing of public concerns and primarily focused on the development of health sector services provided by PHCs and Sub centers.
  Protecting against food insecurity through PDS. Nutrition among women and children through means of ICDS, Mid-day meals, school education nation, environment sanitation, supply of clean drinking water, agriculture, and linked sectors.
• frequent inspection trips to the field, and constant monitoring to ensure the efficient delivery of services to those residing in regional poverty. Created a spirit of self-help among the people living in the Mandal and turned them into active collaborators in the development projects that were carried out.

Services Rendered Through The Trust-

• The trust has embarked on several projects to improve the quality of life of elderly people who are either without family or without financial support. A very little act of assistance has provided them with a great deal of happiness and the self-assurance they need to persevere through difficult circumstances.
• The activities include the distribution of blankets to the residents of the holy brian orphan home at Porumamilla and the distribution of garments to 35 blind individuals who are residents of the blind people’s Ashram.
• Rupees 50,000 were contributed for the building of a swami Vivekananda old age home at Obulapuram in the Kasinayana Mandal of the YSR Kadapa District and for the distribution of vital goods to those persons who are confined to bed due to health issues regularly every month. Annadanam, often known as free meals, are provided consistently to those who are in need by the trust.
• One of the most important things that Vijay does both as an individual and in his role as a managing trustee is to help underprivileged students by providing a welcoming atmosphere for them and providing financial support so that they may continue their education.
• Even though the government has been working to improve the lives of students by enacting several new policies, there are still several issues that can only be fixed by intervention at the local level.
• As a result, the following initiatives have been implemented as a complement to the efforts being made by the government toward universal education. Free enrollment for children from low-income families at the school that’s also managed by a nonprofit foundation.
• Distribution of bus passes to school-aged children studying in Kasturba girls high school and social welfare boys hostel at Porumalilla resulted in the issuance of passes to 197 students. These passes were distributed in coordination with APSRTC to assist the students in continuing their education without encountering any obstacles along the way. Students attending OLF Girls High School who are living below the poverty line and in need of financial support will each get one thousand rupees.
• Veerabrahmendra Swamy Temple in Rangasamudram Village received a donation of 50,000 to fund the digging of a borewell on the property.
• The Donation of a deep freezer box to the Hindu Burial Ground to facilitate the provision of services to families that lack the financial means to use this facility on a leasing basis from private players.

Human Resource Development Medical Camp-

• Those individuals who are unable to pay for high-quality medical care could get medical consultation services at our trust’s Blessed Brian Hospital at the low cost of one rupee.
• In the communities that will be served, routine free health camps, including eye, dental, and orthopedic camps, should be organized.
• Because there is an excessive amount of fluoride in the groundwater, the Porumamilla Mandal suffers from difficulties with the water quality. Many individuals in their middle years get rheumatic symptoms and orthopedic issues because they have been drinking water that has been so severely contaminated for so many years. It is very difficult for patients to have access to the services of orthopedic surgeons since there are so few of them available, and they often have to travel to far places to do so.
• St. Antony’s trust has provided essential medical assistance to those in need by way of organizing orthopedic medical camps and placing them under the direction of Dr. Venkata Subbaiah, MD of Kadapa. Another facility was established as one that offered free ambulance service to those who needed it.

Natural Resource Management- Afforestation

• The trust has the best strategies for afforestation activities in the vicinity of porumamilla Mandal and has distributed thousands of plants to schools, individuals, and government institutions to increase the amount of green cover in rural areas. This is to make rural areas more environmentally friendly.
• The trust has, with the assistance of officials from the Forestry Department (2005), bred nurseries and also bred indigenous species to distribute them to the general public.

Natutal Calamaities And Emergency Relief Activities-

• One instance of a natural or man-made disaster, such as an earthquake or flood, or an accident caused by humans, such as a fire, will have a significant negative impact on the economic situation of vulnerable individuals who are already in need of assistance.
• When something like this happens, any progress that the underprivileged have made up to this point will be completely undermined. The St. Antony’s Trust is now involved in several emergency relief operations, one of which is assisting those who have been impacted by fire accidents. As a result of the fire accident, the homes of ten families were reduced to ashes, and they were left in abject despair.

Promotion Of Educational Activities-

• Without waiting for the authorities to respond, the St. Antony’s Trust raced to the location and gave items such as rice, blankets, buckets, tumblers, cooking pots, shirts, and other necessities.
• Elementary and upper primary education are the two topics that have been assigned to the Mandal Parishad by statute. It is the bounden obligation of the MPP to guarantee that all educational facilities that fall under their administration are working properly. As a consequence of this, he committed a substantial portion of his time to overseeing the provision of services by these institutions.
• Inspections of the schools were carried out regularly to check the attendance of both students and teachers.
• Identified the deficiencies in existing infrastructure amenities and addressed these key voids by collecting money from SSA, Mandal Parishad Own Funds, etc., MPLADs people donations, such as the provision of drinking water facility, toilets both for boys and girls, compound wall, approach road, etc. Children were encouraged to participate in various sports and activities.
• He evaluated the quality of the rice and other recipes used in the midday meals and took remedial action as necessary.
• He extended his service by donating school supplies to children who were unable to purchase them and giving them to them in the form of stationery kits.

Women And Child Welfare Activities-

• He encouraged women to participate in activities that improved their health and nutrition and performed unannounced inspections of Anganwadi facilities to assess the quality of the services being provided, particularly the quality of the meal that was being delivered to mothers and children.
• The camps were set up that encouraged people to learn about the value of breastfeeding were conducted. utilized MGNREGS funds to begin constructing permanent structures for Anganwadi facilities after taking the necessary steps. He took it upon himself to take a personal interest in identifying essential locations in cooperation with the Mandal tahsildar wherever there was a lack of accessible land for the development of Anganwadi centers.
• A review of women’s and children’s welfare activities had been included as a standing item on the agenda of the general body meeting of the Mandal Parishad. adopted remedial actions to ensure the successful execution of the ICDS and the other schemes.
• During the five years that He served as President of the Mandal Parishad, He allocated 15 percent of the general finances of the Mandal Praja Parishad to initiatives that benefited women and children. This allocation was made every fiscal year.

Drinking-Water And Sanitation-

• As a Member of the Provincial Parliament, the provision of potable water and access to basic sanitary services were his top priorities in his work. To prevent villages from suffering from a lack of water, preventative steps were taken.
• Drinking water issues have been resolved as a result of the installation of new borewells in the villages of Rangasamudram and Venkataramapuram, which had been suffering from a severe lack of water for many years.
• Regular servicing of all existing hand pumps in the villages, financed by Mandal Parishad drinking water funds and performed with the assistance of the rural water supply engineering team.
• He obtained the corporate social responsibility funding available from Texmo Company to establish a 10 HP Submersible Pump and Pipeline in the Rangasamudram Panchayat located inside the Porumamilla Mandal. Awareness campaigned for the installation of individual household latrines and succeeded in achieving one hundred percent sanitation in all communities. chose Ganugapeta villages and succeeded in providing IHHLs to a hundred percent of the dwellings therein.
• Encouraged the creation of facilities for processing solid wealth in every hamlet to eliminate trash in the settlements. assisted the South Western Department in installing a water filtration system in the SC Boys Hostel in Porumamilla. gram panchayats have been encouraged to participate in the MGNREGS program’s water conservation efforts by the government.

Monitoring And Supervision Of Food Security Program-

• He Provided food safety for those living in rural areas is one of the primary concerns on which he has been concentrating for the last two decades. He has taken several initiatives in this regard, both on a personal basis and in his role as President of the Mandal Praja Parishad.
• As a Member of the Provincial Parliament and an Ex-Officio Co-Chairman of the Mandal Vigilance Committee, he had monitored the implementation of the Public Distributed System (PDS), the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, and the Feed being supplied to expectant mothers, nursing mothers, and children aged 0 to 6 who were enrolled in Anganwadi centers.
• Vijay examined fair pricing stores, schools, and Anganwadi schools to ensure the successful execution of the aforementioned programs, and if any deficiencies were discovered, remedial steps were taken. The evaluation of the execution of the PDS, MDM, and ICDS program had been established as a regular agenda item in MPP General Body Meetings, which are Statutory Meetings. This was done to ensure that the programs were being implemented correctly.

Monitoring And Supervision Of NRHM Related Activities-

• Realizing that a healthy society is a sine qua non for accelerating economic growth in rural areas, he took the utmost care in ensuring that rural areas have better health and medical services. He undertook this with the utmost care because he realized that a healthy society is a necessary precondition non for stimulating economic growth.
• Lowering the infant mortality rate and the maternal mortality rate as well as controlling the fertility rate, anemia among mothers, and malnutrition among children have always been key areas for him, and he has worked hard to accomplish state objectives in each of these categories.
• The Surveillance of the funds granted by Vijay under various initiatives aimed at pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers (PMVVY and JSY).
• In his role as head of the National Rural Health Mission’s Hospital Development Committee (NRHM), he oversaw the construction of new primary healthcare and secondary healthcare facilities.
• He assisted in the reconstruction of the medical building, which cost Rs. 70 Lakhs East, including renovations to the building, operation theatre, laboratories, restrooms, and compound wall, among other things.
• Vijay arranged for the purchase of medical equipment as well as chairs, other furnishings, and fittings that are necessary for the operation of the PHC.
• He made available Routine checks of Primary Health Care (PHC) and Subcenters (Subcenters) to guarantee efficient delivery of health-related services to the populace facilitated the running of awareness programs on periodic illness prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, and encouraged blood donation camps. campaigns against pulse polio were carried out with great success and guaranteed to reach every single person.

Environmental Conservation Activities-

• To achieve sustainable development, he has encouraged a variety of programs that are focused on environmental protection by utilizing monies from MGNREGS.
• Works related to water preservation, rainwater harvesting, and groundwater augmentation include desilting of tanks, digging of farm ponds, and installation of rainwater collection structures, among other activities.
• Activities that are related to afforestation, such as planting trees on desolate hills, community property areas, roadside margins, bund plantings, horticultural plantings on farmer areas under MGNREGS, as well as awareness rallies, seminars, and conferences.
• The protection of government-owned land from illegal encroachment and farmers’ issues such as timely water supply for irrigation and drinking from Brahma Sagar to Porumammilla tank and subsequent chain of small tanks are among the many issues to which he has drawn attention in his capacity as MPP and as an active and responsible citizen.

Social Activities:

• The establishment of a government women’s college in Porumamilla, as well as environmental awareness and safety rallies.
• Rupee 1 consultation charge with high lab equipment and adequate facilities, free ambulance service is being offered in honor of Dr. Y.S.rajasekar Reddy’s remembrance. Medical camps and awareness campaigns on health and cleanliness, as well as referrals to hospitals and delivery of free medications to those in need, were organized.
• He distributed the old-age pensions from private funds to the elderly who are qualified for the government pension but are not getting it for other reasons.
• Vijay conducted welfare activities such as swine flu, drug distribution, public education on pulse polio, the construction of government hospitals, donations for free medical clinics, blood donation drives, and eye tests for school children.
• Small-scale women’s businesses may profit from interest-free loans, the formation of waste-to-wealth centers, and the construction of water plants with their own money.
• Inquiry into the encroachment on temple property, questioning of the electrical staff’s carelessness, providing notice to the authorities, on water and tree manipulations, deposing the officers on water and tree manipulations, petitioning the MRO on land online.
• There is an attempt to rehabilitate agricultural canals, and farmers’ issues are brought to public notice. Crop damage and Mandal identification as a drought Mandal are also possible outcomes by supporting the distribution of free or low-cost fertilizer to farmers
• Anganwadi center construction locations are being sought by determining whether or not pregnant women in Anganwadi facilities are receiving enough nourishment.
• Cement roads are being built in the Manda as part of these initiatives. Special monies will be used to build roads and observation of outcomes and the quality of those outcomes In the Mandal, cc roads costing 10 crores have been constructed.
• Assisting widows and orphans in their struggles, offering free rations and transit tickets to those in need, and ensuring that no one goes hungry are a few of the charitable endeavors that these organizations undertake.

Services Rendered During The Pandemic-

• Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the lives of rural poor people, particularly those whose income was based on sporadic or part-time work. The time of the lockdown caused a significant decrease in the purchasing power of the impoverished families, and as a result, many families were unable to even afford to purchase the necessary necessities needed to live with two square meals a day throughout the epidemic.
• The following actions have been undertaken by the trust to alleviate the suffering of rural impoverished people. delivery of enough grains, vegetables, milk, eggs, and oil to last a family in need of two months’ worth of meals.
• Provision of hand sanitizers worth 75,000 rupees, distribution of face masks worth 11,000 rupees, and distribution of the homeopathic medication to 3,000 members, as well as the contribution of 100,000 rupees to the C.M. relief fund.
• During this corona period, the poor people who come from nearby villages for disease diagnosis to the health center and poor farmers for other works, with the noble intentions of satisfying their hunger, Chitha Vijay Prasad Reddy and his elder brother Chitha Ravi Prakash Reddy started meal for rupees 5 with the assistance and participation of large donations for 150 people every day. This was accomplished with the meal costing 5 rupees per person. Given that rice is a manifestation of parabrahma, the fact that the residents of the town are contented is a very major development.

Name: Chitha Vijay Prathap Reddy

DOB: 15th of February, 1972

Father: Mr. Chitha Showry Reddy

Mother: Mrs. Chitha Anthonamma

Present Designation: Andhra Pradesh Food Commission Chairman

Education Qualification: M.A

Profession: Politician and Social Activist

Permanent Address: Porumamilla, YSR Kadap, Andhra Pradesh.

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”