For women farmers at Yelgoi village in Jharasangam mandal of Sangareddy district, tilling their own land has remained a dream.
Kammari Eswaramma, V. Shobhamma and Rehana Begum are among the 73 farmers who had received documents of the land assigned to them from the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, in August 2005 at a function held in Medak town.
It’s over a decade now and they are still waiting to physically possess the assigned land as the authorities have failed to show them the same.
Deciding to end their wait, 33 women farmers have started cultivating the government land without ascertaining whether it belongs them. The rest are still waiting for some help from the government in this regard.
Amid all this, like adding insult to the injury, the then UPA government’s announcement that a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) would come up on 12,500 acres, including the land in Yelgoi, came as a rude shock to them.
With the Central government maintaining that it would facilitate the establishment of NIMZ provided the State government alienates land for the purpose, about 3,000 acres was handed over to the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC). The land was purchased under GO 123, which was stayed by the High Court some time ago.
Given this, the state government, according to official sources, cancelled the land assigned to 40 persons on the grounds that there was not enough land in the village to spare. The beneficiaries, on the other hand, had no clue of the same.
