Kancharoni tank a garbage dump

Kancharoni tank in Nirmal town 

The famous Kancharoni tank has become a garbage dump and is spreading stink as people of surrounding colonies throw their garbage into it. 

Apart from that sewage is also flowing into the tank which is close to the historical Nirmal fort.

Officials have failed to clean the tank and develop it as a picnic spot even though Minister for Endowment Allola Indrakaran Reddy, the collector and other officials pass by it frequently.

On the one hand, the officials are planning to develop the famous Nirmal fort as a tourist spot.

But, the Kancharoni tank which is close to the fort spreads bad smell throughout the day. Nirmal fort was constructed by one Nimma Naidu who ruled the area.

People can’t stand near the tank or spend time there due to bad smell rising from the garbage and decomposed carcasses of domestic animals dumped in the tank. The bad smell is detective long distance away.

Even the passengers traveling in the buses and vehicles cover their nose with clothes when passing by the tank. The windowpanes of vehicles have to be closed to keep the bad smell away.

Rajashekar of Nirmal town said that political leaders and officials concerned have neglected tanks in and around the Nirmal town. The town’s chain tanks were once famous. People say that it is high time the effluent flowing into the Kancharoni tank from the colonies are blocked and the tank cleaned.

There were strong allegations that the shikam land of the Kancharoni tanks is being encroached by the land grabbers and buddies of the political leaders.

Emotional angle to Nirmal district

An emotional attachment is being seen to the creation of new districts in the Adilabad. Endowment Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy has announced that the Nirmal district to be created will be named after Goddess Saraswathi as Basar temple is located in Nirmal area.

The state government has announced that Mancherial district will be named after Adivasi legendary Kumram Bheem. 

Kumram Bheem died while fighting with the Nizam forces at Jodeghat in Kerameri mandal on September1,1940.   

It is said that political leaders are using emotional angle on the state government especially Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for the creation of a new district with their town as headquarters. 

Being an Endowment Minister, Indrakaran Reddy preferred naming the Nirmal district after knowledge goddess Saraswati. Basar Saraswati temple is the second one in the country after one in Kashmir.

Devotees not only from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh but also neighboring states also visit the temple to take the blessings of goddess Saraswati. Especially parents take their children for Aksharabhysam.

It is learned that a ground level survey would be conducted to assess the feasibility of creating Nirmal district though the news is making rounds in the political circles that Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao has agreed in principle, to create the Nirmal district. Subsequently, Endowment Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy offered special prayers at Basar.

On the other hand, members of the committees agitating demanding the state government create Nirmal district strongly opposed the demand merger of Basar town into the bordering Nizamabad district.

Politics overshadows people's aspirations

The ongoing efforts to create new district has created confusion and commotion among the people of the districts. 

The people of the district are doubtful whether the efforts being made to create a new district is for their benefit or that of the political leaders or realtors. 

Those who are witness to the unwanted developments and unexpected demands are equating the exercise with gambling, with different maps of new districts being circulated on social networking sites.

K. Rajeshwar Kumar, a senior citizen of Adilabad town said, political leaders were now talking much about the dividing the parent Adilabad district into three and adding that the state government is giving scope for fresh demands without taking a final decision based on scientific assessment and administrative feasibility.

He said state government was holding out to political leaders, emerging with their own fresh demands, and stage-managed agitations, while neglecting genuine new district demands.       

Political leaders are said to be lobbying for the creation of a district with those towns and surrounding areas in which they owned thousands of acres of land or in which they were invested in the real estate business.

The news is making the rounds has it that Indrakaran Reddy is lobbying for the creation of Nirmal district, being his home town, besides the existing demand for Mancherial, Bellampalli, Kagaznagar, Asifabad and Utnoor districts.

A post was circulated on social networking sites, claiming that Minister for Endowment Allola Indrakaran Reddy thanking Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for agreeing, in principle, to create the Nirmal district, with some of his supporters celebrating the news and thanking the minister for his efforts in realizing this demand.

Meanwhile, some people staged a rasta roko demanding that the state government merge Basar town into Nizamabad due to the proximity of the two. What is also being circulated is the possibility of Mudhole Assembly Constituency being merged into Nizamabad district, if Nirmal district is not created.

In all the brouhaha, the state government seems not to consider the Adivaisi’s demand for the creation of  an Utnoor district, the question on people’s minds also being whether the integrated Tribal Development Agency, Utnoor had done enough to protect the rights of the tribals in the light of the creation of a new district. 

Adivasi leaders said that they were the real losers on various accounts- in the creation of new district just as in the creation of separate Telangana state.

What is also being debated is whether the reports that the district administration  was submitting to the state government on the creation of new district was being done under the political pressure.