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Hyderabad, Certificates were distributed among the villagers of Dondapadu that has become the first NRI adopted 100% digital literate village. The village was adopted by an NRI Annapareddy Appi Reddy under Digithon Digital Village initiative.
Digithon chairman Sundeep Kumar Makthala has stated 218 villagers of Dondapadu were imparted training of basic computers, digital transactions, including financial literacy for several days as part of the program. The US-based NRI Annapareddi Appi Reddy had agreed to adopt this village during a meeting with Digithon chairman Sundeep Kumar Makthala in Chicago. Appi Reddy is the first NRI in Telangana to adopt a village for digital literacy. The NRI wanted to contribute to the fellow Indians in gaining digital knowledge and TITA had provided the ground level support in this program. Makthala said more villages could be digitally empowered if other NRIs come forward to adopt their own villages. He said 
empowering the Telangana State in terms of digital literacy and digital education was the ultimate goal of Digithon and Digital Volunteers would always be ready to give their services. He said Telangana must be ahead in digital literacy among other States across the country. Certificates were distributed among villagers of Dondapadu, who have attended the digital literacy classes. Appireddy said it was a great achievement. He said the success of the Dondapadu would inspire other villages and NRIs in the future.
Suryapet Deputy Collector Sanjeev Reddy appreciated the efforts of Appireddy, TITA volunteers and other stakeholders in educating the villagers on digital tools. He said digitally empowered citizens make it easy for e-Governance. TITA vice-president Ranapratap Bojjam, spokesperson Venkat Vanam, Pradeep Nilgir, Shivashankar Margoni, Sravan Bhanavarapu, Ben, Vamsi, Pilli Srinivas, Hari Babu, Venkatram Reddy Mettu, Shekar, Rajeshwari, Rajashekar and others participated in the event. Hundreds of villagers have participated in the program and showed their interest in becoming the part of digital revolution by the Telangana government.
