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AP Govt settles dispute with Pulinchintala evacuees
At last the rehabilitation woes of Pulichintala project evacuees and those living in the submerged villages have come to an end, thanks to the keen interest taken by Joint Collector Cherukuri Sridhar under the guidance of District Collector Kantilal Dande.
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Guntur: At last the rehabilitation woes of Pulichintala project evacuees and those living in the submerged villages have come to an end, thanks to the keen interest taken by Joint Collector Cherukuri Sridhar under the guidance of District Collector Kantilal Dande. The State government deciding to end the deadlock has arrived at a settlement with the 1,315 families.
- The government arrives at a settlement with 1,315 displaced families
- 1,116 families would be paid Rs 10 lakh each covering the cost of a house site and building a house, while 199 families will be accommodated in existing rehabilitation colonies
- The evacuees hailing from the villages of Regalagadda, Govindapuram and Vemavaram are a happy lot
Under the agreement reached 1,116 families would be paid Rs 10 lakh each covering the cost of a house site and building a house but once the cash is paid, they would have to vacate the villages. The evacuees agreed and subsequently released Rs 78 crore for making payment at one go.
Earlier, the government rehabilitated 6,487 families of the 15 villages which came under submergence but the rehabilitation of 1,315 families was pending for over a decade due to their insistence on a particular village for relocation. Not only that every year the evacuees who were not rehabilitated were living in the villages which were being inundated during rainy season. Moving the villagers to safety every year had been going on for more than a decade.
The evacuees hailed from the villages of Regalagadda, Govindapuram and Vemavaram. The rehabilitation package was delayed due to their insistence on their rehabilitation in the Bramhanapalle village. Government even purchased sites from private parties and a section of the villagers approached the court and stayed the government plan. A decade had passed by with no solution in sight.
The government finally decided to just pay money for house site and building a house instead of building homes for the people as part of a rehabilitation package. The remaining families of 199 out of the 1,315 families are being accommodated in the existing rehabilitation colonies.
The government also decided to pay the backlog wages under the NREGS to the project evacuees to non-agriculture labour for 750 days, agriculture labour for 625 days and small and marginal farm labourers for 500 days at the rate of Rs 237 per day. The evacuees are now a happy lot.
Meanwhile, the district administration is spending Rs 20 crore on improving amenities in the rehabilitation colonies. Thanks to the efforts of joint collector Sridhar, the decade-old deadlock has come to an end. The Pulichintala project will now be able to store 45 tmc feet of water in the project reservoir as the problems of submergence has been settled.
