Ramlingam Pantulu block opened at City High School

Pandit Ramlingam Pantulu, who was chairman of Berhampur Municipality in British era, was also involved in the development of City High School which was established in 1930. A statue of his was also established on the school campus which was garlanded by his descendants of new generation. His grandchildren and great grandchildren have come forward to build Pandit Ramlingam block on the premises of City High School. Several of them were former students of this school. Now members of this extended family are also scattered in different parts of the country and abroad. But all of them extended their hands of support to take up this project for development of their old school. The main donors for the project were Janaki Sastry, who lives in UK, and P.Santa Kumari of Visakhapatnam. During the inauguration ceremony Ms Santa Kumari announced two awards for meritorious students of the school in memory of her grandfather. Several dignitaries of the city attached to this school attended the inaugural function of this new block which has three class rooms. According to head master of the school, Subash Chandra Pradhan, new class rooms were an extreme need of the historic institution.

Source: The Hindu