Christine Lazarus, who is serving as a nominated MLA for the third consecutive term, says she enjoys a sense of achievement for tirelessly working for the welfare of the Anglo Indian Community (AIC) in particular and the Christian community in general.

Addressing a press conference in Vishakhapatnam on Sunday, Ms. Lazarus said she could facilitate construction of community centres in several districts, arrange scholarship for Anglo Indian students up to secondary education, establish training centres, and achieve reservations in education.

She said 185 seats in professional courses were reserved for the community, including medical, engineering, dental, architecture, and pharmacy. Ms. Lazarus said she was instrumental in issuing of AIC identity certificates for claiming government benefits.

Plea to Collector

She said the district Collector was requested to utilise the services of the community members in teaching spoken English to teachers in government schools. The Collector was also requested to allot land for building a community centre in the city.

JNNURM houses

She also urged MLA Dronamraju Srinivas to sanction 130 JNNURM houses to the community members.

Ms. Lazarus appealed to the Divisional Railway Manager to hand over the Railway Institute to the Anglo Indian Association so that they could organise several cultural programmes and properly utilise and maintain the same for public purposes.

She said the community members had been using the institute since the days of the British and they had a sense of attachment with it.

She congratulated the ‘Anglo Indian Jaguar’ team for winning the national hockey trophy conducted at Bangalore and Chennai.

Anglo Indian Women’s Association president Yolander was present.

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Home> News> Cities> Visakhapatnam / by Staff Reporter / october 01st, 2012