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Thotapalli project oustees stop work

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Our main demands not considered, says sangham leader

Compensation for some oustees not considered, he says
He says no survey has been done for two other villages

VIZIANAGARAM: Families displaced by the Thotapalli irrigation project forced contractors to stop works on Saturday. The families have been demanding relief and rehabilitation package for disabled, widows, old and project affected families. About 200 families stopped the works on the right and left main canals at Vullibhadra and Nandivanivalasa sites. With the elections due in a few months, the families are of the opinion that successive governments have not considered their demands, according to Bantu Dasu, State vice-president of the Project Nirvasithula Sangam.

He said over the phone that in spite of several representations to officials and protest demonstrations in the past four years their main demands had not been conceded. Their demand for a special package to families of Vullibhadra, Addapusila and Gopalapuram (project-affected villages) falling within a radius of 100mts of the project was ignored. Compensation for houses of families displaced from P. Ramu Naidu Valasa, Basangi, Nimmalapadu, Bitrapadu, Gotlabhadra, Pata Kallikota, Gunanapuram, Duggi and Sunkhi villages were yet to be paid. The administration had not even acquired site for rehabilitating families at P. Ramu Naidu Valasa, Basangi and Sunkhi village, he said and added that though the Government issued GO No. 124 in April this year for R & R package to families at Nandivanivalasa and Basangi villages, not even economic survey had been done to date, Mr. Dasu said.

Likewise, he said, families of Kutikipenta and other surrounding villages under Peddagedda project had not been paid compensation. Bangaruguddi village under the same project, 30 tribal villages under Adarugedda minor irrigation project and B.M. Valasa under Vankabadigedda project were totally cut off from the mainland but no action was taken to link them, he said.

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