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No road connectivity to 300 villages
At least three expectant mothers died in the recent past en route to the hospital due to lack of roads in Yerragunta village.When many villages are fast becoming digital across the country, there are 322 villages in Adilabad and Asifabad districts, inhabited by at least 10,000 people, do not have even kutcha roadshospital,Yerragunta,digital ,kutcha roads,Adilabad.
Adilabad: At least three expectant mothers died in the recent past en route to the hospital due to lack of roads in Yerragunta village.When many villages are fast becoming digital across the country, there are 322 villages in Adilabad and Asifabad districts, inhabited by at least 10,000 people, do not have even kutcha roads. The villagers have to walk 10 to 20 km to reach a place with road facility. They have to walk their way if they want to go to a nearby town or visit their relatives on a road, which is uneven and filled with rocks.
In case of emergencies, since the road is not motorable, the only mode of transport is bullock-cart. This is why the people of these villages are living in dark without knowing what is happening all around them. In Utnoor mandal alone, people inhabiting many hamlets like Chapral, Lendiguda, Dharmajipeta, Markaguda and Rajulamadugu are facing many hardships for want of road and communication facilities.
They common mode of transport for any emergency, like shifting patients or pregnant women to hospital or any other medical emergencies, is bullock-cart. This journey takes at least eight hours to reach the nearest hospital. Tribals expressed their agony as many expectant mothers have been dying en route to the hospital. Even doctors and ANMs are not visiting the village for want of a motorable road.
Nutritious food supplied by the government is not reaching the expectant mothers in the village since several years. Tribals Nago Rao and Tirupati appealed the State government to lay at least kutcha road to their villages. Govena and Mangidi Madapur, residents of Gopera village, Tiryani mandal, said that they have to trek 15 km even to buy monthly groceries.
The remote villages did not have schools. As a result, the students are forced to become cattle grazers. Also, the villages did not have power supply. The tribals are living in the grip of fear of attack by wild animals especially during night time.
They criticised the government for its apathy in fulfilling their demand for a road facility.
By Thotla Chinna Anjaiah
