Forum felicitates teachers
The Hindu
Phani Bushan Sridhar, a school assistant at the ZP High School mandal, who was awarded the National Best Teacher Award in 2021 by the Union Education Ministry, was also felicitated
Peddapalli Appa Rao, of the Microbiology Department of Andhra Medical College, who had rendered services as HoD of the Microbiology Department and served as District Laboratory Head , giving molecular diagnostics (RT-PCR) to a large number of patients, was felicitated by the Visakha Citizen Forum(VCF), here, on September 12. K. Phani Bushan Sridhar, a school assistant at the ZP High School at Lingarajupalem village of S. Rayavaram mandal, who was awarded the National Best Teacher Award in 2021 out of 44 teachers selected by the Union Education Ministry, was also felicitated. Andhra University Vice-Chancellor P.V.G.D. Prasad Reddy participated as chief guest. Earlier, president M. Satya Prasad spoke about the aims and objectives of the Forum.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.