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Nagarjuna Donates Rs 2 Crore to ANR School in Gudivada



Akkineni Nagarjuna on Wednesday handed over a donation of Rs. 2 crore to ANR School, Gudivada, to fund scholarships for deserving college students. The contribution got here throughout the establishment’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, underscoring the actor’s dedication to schooling.

Nagarjuna attended the occasion as chief visitor and inaugurated the faculty’s new constructing. He additionally paid homage to his father, legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR), who had donated Rs. 1 lakh to the identical faculty again in 1959. “My father, although not formally educated, had a deep love for schooling. He labored to brighten the way forward for hundreds,” Nagarjuna mentioned, saying the Rs. 2 crore scholarship fund.

Distinguished dignitaries graced the ceremony, together with Naga Susheela, Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad, Gudivada MLA Venigandla Ramu, and others. The gathering celebrated ANR School’s wealthy legacy, which was established in 1950 and now continues to empower college students via beneficiant philanthropy.

The school administration expressed gratitude for Nagarjuna’s gesture, noting that the scholarship will profit numerous learners. This act of social welfare reinforces the household’s lengthy standing affiliation with the establishment. Nagarjuna’s Rs. 2 crore donation is about to create lasting impression, inspiring future generations and preserving his father’s imaginative and prescient of academic uplift.