History of Brahmana Seva Sangham: Ananda Teerdha Agraharam (A.T.Agraharam): Guntur
It is said that the sangham has been started at the instance of Brahmana Seva Samithi, Brodipet as an extention to cater to the needs of brahmins at Ananda Teerdha Agraharam with independent status. However, later as it has grown, it started catering to the needs/services of entire Guntur and out side also.
Started on:
On The Telugu New Year of ‘Bhava’ 11.04.1994 in the name of Brahmana Seva Sangham, Ananda Teerdha Agraharam at the house of Shri P.V.Ramanaiah, 26-32-20, 6th line, A.T.Agraharam, Guntur with Shri Nallapati Venkatrao garu as President and Shri Pamidighantam Venkata Ramanaiah as the secretary.
| Date | Turn of Events |
|---|---|
| 04.07.1994 | ‘Mantrapushpam’ classes were started at ‘Gayatri Ammavari Mandiram’ by Sagi Subrahmanyam garu and were completed on 31.08.1994. |
| 19.07.1994 | English Grammer classes were started by Shri Kundaleeswara Prasada garu and completed on 13.09.1994. |
| 20.08.1994 | On Sravana Pournami – ‘Yagnopaveethamulu’ and ‘Dharana Mantram’ books were distributed to Brahmins by Shri Pothukuchi Bhavannarayana and Shri Pavuluri Naga Sivannarayana. |
| 21.08.1994 | Free homeo medicine services were started by Shri Moguluri Narasimhara rao garu at his 5th line, A.T.Agraharam residence. To avail the services medical aid cards were distributed. |
| 14.10.1994 | On This Vijayadasimi Day Sami Prasadam, Sami Patram And Kumkuma Were Distributed Among 500 People By The Sangham. |
| 01.10.1994 | Tailoring Classes Were Started With The Help Of Sramic Vidya Peeth At 3rd Line A.T.Agraharam For 10 Poor Brahmin Ladies. The Classes Were Completed On 01.01.1995 And Certificates Were Distributed To All The 10 Ladies On 22.03.1995. |
| 01.11.1994 | At Sankara Gayatri Satya Deva Mandiram ‘Kartika Purana’ Pravachanams Were Started By Shri Mothadaka Venkateswarlu Garu - Every Day Evening From 0530 Hrs To 0630hrs. |
| 20.11.1994 | First ‘Karthika Samaradhana’ of BSS(Brahamana Seva Sangham) ATA(Ananda Teerdha Agraharam) was conducted. |
| 15.12.1994 | Shri Nallapati Venkatrao Garu Has Contested The District Level Executive Committee. Also He Was Later Elected To Andhra Pradesh Brahmana Seva Samakhya Committee Member In 21.01.1995. |
| 13.03.1995 | First Samuhika Uchita ‘Upanayanamulu’ Conducted For 12 Vatuvus At Gayatri Mata Mandiram, A.T.Agraharam. |
| 22.03.1995 | 2nd batch of Tailoring were classes started for 18 ladies. |
| 24.04.1995 | New Telugu Year ‘Uva’ Was Celebrated And ‘Panchangam’ Books Were Distributed By Shri Mainampati Raghavarao Garu. |
| 23.02.1996 | 2nd Batch Of Samuhika Uchita ‘Upnayanamulu’ Conducted At Sankara Gayatri Satya Deva Mandiram, Ata. |
| 20.03.1996 | Telugu New Year ‘Dhata’ Was Celebrated With ‘Panchanga Sravanam’ By Shri Chintalapati Perayya Sastry Garu And Shri Moguluri Narasimharao Garu Was Falicitated As ‘Visista Vyakthi’ For 1996. |
| 05.01.1997 | ‘Ananta Padmanabha Swami’ Vratha Udyapana Was Conducted For 4 Couples At Amaravathi.:‘Ananta Padmanabha Swami’ Vratha Udyapana was conducted for 4 couples at Amaravathi. |
| 25.01.1997 | The Brahmana Seva Sangham Was Registered With Society No.48/1997 Under Societies Registration Act, Xxi Of 1860 By District Registrar, Guntur . |
| 08.04.1997 : | Telugu New Year ‘Eeswara’ Was Celebrated As 3rd Aniversary Of Sangham And Shri Ambatipudi Satyanarayana Avadhani Garu Was Felicitated As ‘Visista Vyakthi’ For 1997. |
| 02.06.1997 | 3rd Batch Of ‘Samuhika Uchita Upanayanamulu’ Conducted. |
| 18.08.1997 | Sravana Pournami was Celebrated with The Distribution Of ‘Yagnopavithamulu’ and Dharana Books Freely. |
| 1998 To 2010 | The Period Saw The Sangham Performing The Regular Activities Of Ugadi, Scholarships/Note Books Distribution, Conducting ‘Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Udyapanalu’ Twice, Upanayanamulu, Karthika Samaradhanamulu And Calander Publication Etc. |
| 16.03.2010 | Telugu New Year ‘Vikruthi’ Was Celebrated At Shri Vsn Murthy Gari House By Taking A Major Decision To Construct Aparakarmala Bhavanam By Purchasing A Site Of Our Own. Nearly Rs.1.5lakh Donations Were Announced On The Spot Which Has Set The Process Of Acquiring A Site And Build Sca Building. |
| 08.02.2011 | 400 Sq. Yards(334.44 Sq. Mtrs) Of Plot Was Procured Near Visalakshi Cold Storage On Guntur – Chilakaluripet High Way With Boundaries On : East – K.Venkateswarlu Plot No.117/12, D.Yalamanda, J Sambaiah Plot No.118/3 Spanning 72ft. West – 30ft Road, Spanning 72ft. North – Plot No. 125/22, Spanning 50ft. South – 30 Ft. Road, Spanning 50 Ft. |
| 23.03.2012 | Telugu New Year ‘Nandana’ was celebrated at Shri Susarla Ramana gari house at 5th line ata, with panchanga sravanam, shri burra seetharama sastry garu was felicitated as ‘Visista Vyakthi’, 32 vedic students rendered veda swasti with felicitation by clothes, poor brahmin ladies (20nos) were distributed with sarees and panchanga books distributed by Shri Valluri Suryanarayana Murthy garu. |
| 18.11.2012 | Karthika Samaradhana was conducted with more than 200 people participating. |
| 23.11.2012 | At 1053hrs (Friday) foundation was laid for construction of ‘Aarama Kshetram’ at the purchased site. |
| 21.03.2015 | Telugu New Year ‘Manmadha’ celebrated with the grand gruhapravesam of ‘Aarama Kshetram'. |
| 01.10.2015 | Aaramakshetram operations started for performing Aparakramalu. |
| 15.11.2015 | Karthika Samaradhana was conducted at 2nd line Anjaneya Swamy Temple with 200 nos. |
| 17.01.2016 | 6 New Members Were Taken Into Committee- T.Umankantha Rao, P.L.Kantharao, A.Bhanu Prakash, A.Sai Srinivas, D.Narayana Murthy And S.V.Ramana. |
| 08.04.2016 | Telugu New Year ‘Durmukhi’ celebrated with Shri Pathuri Venktramaiah Sastry garu as ‘Visista Vyakthi’. |
| 19.06.2016 | Note Books were distributed to poor brahmin students from LKG To Engineering Students. |
| 06.11.2016 | Karthika Samaradhana Aas Held At Central Public School 4th Line, A.T.Agraharam. Around 400 People Participated. Shri Ramaraju Premkumar and team have performed music concert. |
| 2017 To 2020 | Regular programmes of Calander Publishing, Ugadi Celebrations, Note Book Distribution, Karthika Samaradhana etc were continued to be conducted. |
| 19.01.2020 | General Body Meeting held. New body was elected for a period of 2 years. |
| 01.04.2020 | Ugadi Celebrations were cancelled in the last minute due to the on set of Covid-19. The procured sarees, clothes were distributed privately. |
| 13.04.2020 | A New programme of distribution of provisions to poor brahmin families was started with the contribution of donors in memory of their elders, birthday/marriage day etc. |
| 01.06.2020 | Note Books Distribution was canceled due to schools being closed due to Covid-19 and also Govt giving all the kit directly to the students. |
| 01.08.2020 | Distribution of provisions programme was named as ‘Brahmana Bandhu’ and continued every month on the last sunday of the month. |
| 01.10.2020 | Karthika Samaradhana was cancelled and was conducted for few Committee Members at office. |
| 01.01.2021 | First Sampradaya Calander was published and distributed all over the State whoever asked for. |
| 01.04.2021 | Ugadi Celebrations was again canceled due to Carona. |
| 12.06.2021 | Virtual meetings of the committee were started to avoid Corona spread. |
| 08.08.2021 | Plantation of 60 saplings at Aramakshetram was taken up with the active support of Venkata Ramaiah garu. |
| 29.08.2021 | Website – www.bssata.org for Brahmana Seva Sangham was developed and opened on 29.08.2021 by dr. Sri KVV Nagasantosh Kumar garu. |
| 02.10.2021 | Invertor was purchsed with the help of donors and installed at Aramakshetram. |
| 15.10.2021 | New computer was inaugurated by Shri GVLN Sanjeevrao garu. |
| 31.10.2021 | Abdikamulu through BSS for Brahmin families staying out of Andhra Pradesh and out of India by Kondaiah garu – programme to be coordinated by Shri Y.Ramamohan Rao, Committee Member. |
| 19.12.2021 | After discussion in sevaral meetings regarding construction of additional two blocks in the first floor of Aramakshetram – plan no.5 was finalised. |
| 20.02.2021 | Committee approving the request of Pamidighantam brothers for installing the burst size statue of late Shri. Pamidighantam Venkata ramaiah, founder Secretary of BSS, ATA at first floor after announcing rs.18,0,000/- for naming the entire floor in his name also pamphlet was inaugurated by the president Shri VSN Murthy for construction of first floor at Aramakshetram. |
| 22.04.2022 | First Floor plan was applied and got approval. Decision to issue life membership to all donors who contribute 10000/- and above donation to BSSATA. |
| 29.05.2022 | Auditor Shri Eka Tejaswi advise and dos and donts issued for compliance by the committee in accounting system. Petty cash limit was fixed as rs.10000/- with treasurer and rs.5000/- with the manager, Aramakshetram. Net connection for computer at BSS office was acquired. |
| 07.08.2022 | Puja programme was conducted formally starting the first floor construction. |
| 30.10.2022 | Karthika Samaradhana was conducted at central public school, 4th line ata for all after two years gap due to carona. Attended by 500+ members. |
| 01.11.2022 | Life certificate issuance provision started for Central Government Employes upto december. |
| 31.12.2022 | Published and Distributed Sampradaya Calanders for 2023. |
| 01.01.2023 | Life certificate issuance provision started for State Government Employes upto february. |
| 12.03.2023 | During the committee meeting decided to constitute a legal cell comprising of Shri Medicharla Prabhakar Rao, Retd. Judege and Dendukuri Narayanamurthy, Advocate as members with minimum charges for legal advise/suggestions. |
| 22.03.2023 | Ugadi celebrations were conducted with Shri GVLN Sanjeeva Rao garu as Visista Vyakthi, by distributing clothes to 43 Vedavidyardhulu and sarees for 48 poor ladies. |
| 22.04.2023 | Decided to take up repairs first followed by construction, in the meeting held today. |
| 27.04.2023 | Started repairs work with ultratech people for pillars & slab. Continued pillars work |
| 01.05.2023 | Muhurtham for slab and main darwaja. Both completed and first floor construction work continued |
| 10.06.2023 | Mahamantrapushpam classes started with six students and classes concluded on 08.07.2023 |
| 31.08.2023 | Jandhyala Pournami celebrated by distributing 1000 Yagnopaveetams across city through different Temples, Vedapathasala, and Committee Members. |
| 09.09.2023 | Cement Road laying completed for Aaramakshetram after great efforts by Sangham and actively helped by the lone Brahmin Corporator Sri Achari garu and actively helped by Venkataramaiah garu. |
| 19.11.2023 | Karthika Samaradhana conducted at Central Public School, ATA, by attending 650 people. Along with regular programmes the first floor donors all above Rs.10,000/- above were falicitated. Visista Datalu for 2023 Smt P Mahalakshmamma & Sons PV Subbarao, PV Satyanarayana and P Vasudevarao for donating Rs.18,00,000/- in the name of late Sri PV Ramanaiah were honoured. 2024 Sampradaya Calandars were distributed. |
| 06.12.2023 | Karthika Bahula Navami, Eednesday at 0831hrs Saramakshetra ist floor was inaugurated formally performing all rituals, attended by 150 people by completing all Sampradaya formalities. |
| 29.02.2024 | Uchita Samuhika Uupanayanamulu were conducted first time after 27 years for 9 Vatuvus at Ssantoshimata Temple, Syamala Nagar- Magha Bahula Panchami, Tursday at 1001hrs. around 150 people have dined on the occasion. Vasukumar Purohit conducted the programme. |
| 01.03.2024 | From today the ist floor of the Aramakshetram thrown open to public utilisation. |
| 09.04.2024 | Conducted Ugadi programme at 2nd line, A.T.Agraharam, Anjaneyaswamy Kalyana Mandapam, Jayasankaram garu read out Panchangam, Ambadipudi Syam Sundara Rao garu hounoured with Visista Vyakthi, distributed 150 Panchagams by Sangham, 49 Veda Vidyardhulu presented clothes, 55 poor ladies presented sarees. |
| 26.05.2024 | Duties of manager, watch man, both servant maids notified and served with signatures to the individuals for compliance from 01.06.2024. |
| 02.06.2024 | Increased the Aramaksetram side tin sheets length by 2.5 feet on all three sides for protection against rain and wind. |
| 02.07.2024 | Completed the Election of Donor Boards at Aramakshetram which was going on for the past 2 months. |