NELLORE: A visually challenged woman, B Nagalakshmi, inaugurated the oxygen plant donated by the Sonu Sood Foundation in Atmakur of Nellore district on Friday.
Nagalakshmi was selected as chief guest of the programme as she donated five months of her welfare pension of Rs 15,000 to the actor’s foundation a few months ago. Showering praises on Nagalakshmi, Sonu Sood had called her the richest person on earth as she could feel people’s pain, though she could not see. Nagalakshmi has since decided to donate another Rs 10,000 to the Sood foundation and Rs 25,000 to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) from the balance accrued from her monthly pension of Rs 3,000.
This is the first oxygen plant to be set up by Sonu Sood charity foundation in the country. The actor had promised to take up the construction of an oxygen plant in Atmakur government hospital following a request by district collector KVN Chakradhar Babu. In a video message to the district collector, Sood thanked the locals and for realising the project within a short period of time.
Industries minister Mekapati Gautham Reddy thanked Sood and felicitated Nagalakshmi.
