Dr. Raghu Ram Pillarisetti

Dr. Philanthropy

"Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. That is your privilege, and your burden. If you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless, if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change".

PERSONAL PHILANTHROPY

In 2015, he adopted Ibrahimpur, a remote village in the Southern Indian State of Telangana. Since 2015, he has championed a number of life transforming initiatives in the hamlet through a very generous philanthropic contribution, which attracted local, regional & national appreciation.

From his own resources, he provided:

  • A study room to help the student community in the village prepare for competitive examinations, with state-of-the-art internet facilities
  • A dining room at the village school, so students do not have to eat their lunch in the open compound, particularly during summer
  • A modern crematorium, which is also being used by people from surrounding villages
  • Home solar system, which provides reliable source of 100% free electricity to the poorest of the poor 26 homes in the village
  • 46 sheds for all the 46 families with cattle; constructed in the outskirts of the village, these minimise cattle-borne infections in the community (a first of its kind initiative in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh)
  • A community library, which provides access to newspapers, magazines, and books, in addition to an internet cafe for residents. This space will also be used to conduct targeted awareness sessions by community healthcare workers using the audio-visual facilities in the library.
  • A community function hall that can host 200 people which can be used by residents of the village for weddings and other large family functions.
  • A modern open Gym to ensure people exercise regularly and look after their health
  • Funding of tutions after school hours – a unique initiative to ensure the underprivileged school children secure good marks in exams.

The Swachh Bharath’ campaign, aimed at making India clean

Inspired by a letter written by the Prime Minister of India in September 2017 urging Dr Pillarisetti to dedicate some time to ‘the Swachh Bharath’ campaign, aimed at making India clean, he spearheaded a cleanliness drive in his adopted village - Ibrahimpur, which is now considered to be one of the cleanest villages in the state of Telangana. The village has received many local, regional & national awards for cleanliness by the Government of Telangana.