Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu flagged off the mobile veterinary clinics on Tuesday in Chittoor. The clinics was launched on the premises of PES Medical College in Kuppam as part of improving veterinary services to remote villages.

Mr. Naidu said that “the mobile clinics would cover all the 14 Assembly constituencies in the district. also launched the medical kits attached to the vehicles.”

Later, the Chief Minister also launched the ‘Lab-on Bikes’. This initiative is launched to provide on-hand information in physics, chemistry and biology through visual programming to the students.

It is jointly operated by the district Education Department and the Kuppam-based Agasthya International Foundation to cover 10,000 students in over 100 villages in the current academic year. The teachers would be involved in starting the labs at the targeted schools.

Mr. Naidu also inaugurated two science centres at a cost of Rs. 46 lakh. Many such centres would be set up in several other areas in the district in the coming years.

Mr Naidu was on a two-day visit to Kuppam, received representations from the public at the R&B Guest House in Kuppam, before flying to Visakhapatnam.

Minister Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy, PES Medical College chairman M.R. Doraswamy Naidu, Collector Siddarth Jain, Joint Director M. Srinivasa Rao and senior officials of various government departments and TDP functionaries were present.

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BY M. DIVYA SRI