Deccan Chronicle, Oct 27, 1997.
Enkur (Khammam), Oct. 26 :
The Khammam district unit general secretary of the Society for Rural Poor, Mr. P Muttaiah, in a statement, has alleged that landlords and wealthy farmers were disallowing the Girijans to enter the lands in spite of the prevailing Girijan Act which favors the latter in this regard.
Mr Mutthaiah said about 500 poor Girijans from 10 villages of Enkur mandal had been cultivating in nearly 2000 acres of forest lam where trees had vanished. They removed shrubs and bushes and made use of the land for cultivation and the process was being practiced for the past 17 years. He said cultivation was being done in 80 acres of land at Raghavapuram and Lachchugudem villages of Enkur mandal under the supervision of Society for Rural Poor.
Demanding sanction of pucca houses for the poor Girijans through the ITDC, Mr. Mutthaiah lamented that his sincere efforts for the past five years in achieving various facilities for the poor had failed to fructify. He had met the district Collector several times and given many petitions to the nodal officers during the Prajala Vaddaku Palana programme in vain.
Though the government released funds worth crores of rupees for the welfare of the poor, the genuine candidates were always deprived of the benefits, he regretted. (Newsflash).
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