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Dasa Disa seeks justice for Seema
The state government has failed to undo the injustice that was meted out to Rayalaseema in the past. The region continues to be neglected even today. There is urgent need to take up measures to see that the water resources improve so that agriculture and industrialisation can develop.”
Special status issue generates heat at Dasa-Disa meet
Tirupati: “The state government has failed to undo the injustice that was meted out to Rayalaseema in the past. The region continues to be neglected even today. There is urgent need to take up measures to see that the water resources improve so that agriculture and industrialisation can develop.”
This was the overall opinion expressed by the speakers at the `Dasa-Disa’ programme conducted by HMTV here on Saturday.
Initiating the discussion, Lok Satta Party national president N Jayaprakash Narayan, who conducted the programme, said it is a fact that the region has remained backward as it was neglected for long and has been at the receiving end. “The people are restive as they feel that nothing was done in the past 18 months by the new government to undo the injustice.
The promises made in the AP Reorganization Bill have also not been implemented,’’ he said, pointing at the assurances with regard to special concessions like special package, tax holiday to Uttarandhra and Rayalaseema, to boost industries for employment and revenue remain unfulfilled.
He wanted a three-pronged approach for removing the backwardness of Rayalaseema. They include improving water resources in a big way, industrialisation and decentralisation of power including financial allocation.
Farmers’ leader Mangati Gopal Reddy who first spoke and CPM leader Kandarapu Murali said that but for the dairy industry all the farmers in the district would have committed suicide. The phenomenal development of dairy was saving the lives of the small and marginal farmers and poor landless labourers, they averred hitting hard at the government for acting in such a way that was beneficial to the private dairies.
Murali particularly pointed out the slow poisoning of the Chittoor Dairy which was now closed. The CPM leader in his fiery speech said that there was no dearth of resources and it was only the sheer apathy and utter failure of the successive rulers that was responsible for the the backwardness of the region.
In this connection he said precious red sanders worth Rs 25000 crore were smuggled while minerals worth thousands of crores of rupees were looted.
