Pochera,Ghanpur road to boost connectivity

Double road being laid between Pochera to Ghanpur 

The road- widening works and laying of a new double road at a cost of Rs 32 crore covering 16 km between Pochera crossroads to Ghanpur on the district borders in Boath Assembly constituency will improve connectivity between the bordering areas of Maharashtra and Adilabad of Telangana.

Heavy vehicles loaded with cement, iron and granite ply on this road to go to Nanded or Hyderabad to avoid checking and various taxes. It was a shortcut route to Nanded via Kinwat. These heavy vehicles caused damage to the road between Boath and Sonala.

Hundreds of devotees living on the border, including Marati and telugu speaking people of Adilabad district visit Mahur in Maharashtra to have darshan of goddess Renuka Devi and God Dattatreya at local temples there.

R. Srinivas of Kumari village said, “ There is already a road existing road via Sonala, Kauta to Kinwat and the new double road from Pochera to Ghanpur will certainly improve transportation between backward Kinwat taluk of Maharashtra and Boath Assembly constituency in Adilabad.

Then newly laid double road at a cost of Rs 10 crore between Boath cross road to Boath constituency head quarters enable the free flow of traffic.

Adilabad MP Gadam Nagesh said, “Getting sanctions for the road laying works of  inter- state road is big achievement for him as it was long pending one and was  sanctioned during my term as MP”.

“The road will improve the road connectivity in the area and the road will be operational in one- and- a- half years”.

He said this is the only road sanctioned to the Telangana under Central Road Fund (CRF) meant to improve the inter-state connectivity by the Central government though many roads were proposed.    

Road widening works are going on between Pochera crossroads to Ghanpur raising hopes among the local people about improving road connectivity. However, there is poor road connectivity to Kinwat and Mahur from the bordering village Ghanpur of Adilabad.

Earlier, two RTC buses from Hyderabad, Narayankhed used to go to Mahur via Nirmal- Boath – Kinwat but these bus services have been cancelled for since four years due to bad roads.

Barrages to be built across Pranahita and Godavari

Irrigation department has conducted LiDAR survey in river Pranahita basin to assess the area to be submerged in the Maharashtra under Pranahita –Chevella irrigation project if taken up at Thummidihatti and suitable places to construct barrages on the river Pranahita in Telangana.

The survey was conducted two days ago in river Pranahita basin in Kautala and Bejjur mandals in the Adilabad district. The survey was also aimed at to identify the suitable places to construct number of barrages on rivers Pranahita and Godavari as part of Pranahita- Chevella project. 

The LiDAR survey was conducted in the river Pranahita basin after conducting the same in river Godavari in Karimnagar district.

Irrigation officials and other LiDAR experts conducted survey to asses the extent of areas in the Maharashtra to be submerged under Pranahita- Chevella in the wake of state government’s decision to construct a project at 152 meters height on river Pranahita at Thummidihatti in Adilabad district and to another one is at Kaleshwaram or Yellampalli in Karimnagar district.

The state government has been claiming that the bordering Maharashtra government is not accepting to submergence of the more acres of lands in their territory with rising height of the project.

Major Irrigation DEE of Karimnagar T. Narasinga Rao who participated in survey said ‘they had conducted a  LiDAR  survey in the upstream of the project located in Maharashtra to asses extent of the land to be submerged under the project if go by the 152 meters height’.

He said they were identifying the suitable places to construct barrages on river Godavari and Pranahita as part of the Pranahita- Chevella project and added they had conducted LiDAR survey on river Godavari from Kaleshwaram of Karimagnar to Badhrachalm of Khammam. The Pranahita- Chevella is aimed at providing water for irrigation in Telangana.

Gamblers flock Maha clubs

With the government forcing the closure of clubs which were popular for gambling-three cards and Rummy- in and around the Hyderabad, large numbers of enthusiastic people including women interested in gambling are coming to a club set at Nayegoan village in Dharmabad taluq in Maharashtra. 

A number of cars including luxury vehicles, head for the village which is located just half a kilometre from temple town Basar in Adilabad of Telangana.

People from well-to-do families from Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Medak and Rangareddy and Hyderabad go to the club for a game or two. 

It is said that even people from Mahrashtra head for the club. It is said that club offers luxury facilities, and new customers are joining in with word of mouth publicity incidentally, some of the people who go to the club to gamble also visit the Saraswati temple at Basar. It is said that Telugu businessmen set up the club on benami names in Maharashtra.  

Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao had taken serious note of the death of a person felling down from a top of the club in the Hyderabad and closed all ambling clubs. It is said that token value of Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 each are being sold for the gamblers.

Farmers to get barcoded ID's

The marketing department will issue barcoded identity cards containing farmers’ details for use in cotton purchases to control irregularities at the Market yards in the Telangana.

Details of land, crops, bank account, pattadar pass book will be barcoded into the cards. Efforts are being made to start the commercial cotton purchases from September 27 in the Adilabad district.    

It is learnt that state government came out issue barcode  identity cards for farmers following the reports of huge irregularities in cotton purchases in Kharif-2014 in Warangal, Karimnagar and Adilabad districts.

It was found that cotton commission agents and owners of the Cotton ginning and pressing factors had purchased the cotton produce at low prices from the farmers on benami names and sold it to the Cotton Corporation of India at higher prices.

The farmers, already facing distress, were deprived of even minimum support price of Rs 4,050 announced by the Central government last Kharif.

Collector M. Jagan Mohan said they the use of the barcoded ID cards would prevent irregularities in the cotton purchases at market yards.

Minister Jogu Ramanna said nearly 56 lakh quintals of cotton purchases takes place last Kharif in the district.

But the Agriculture department figures showed that cotton crop was badly damaged and withered due to drought conditions and cotton yields were low and did not cross 35 lakh quintals in the last Kharif in the Adilabad district.

Nearly 21 lakh of cotton was purchased from the farmers of bordering Maharashtra and other parts of state at cheaper prices and sold to the CCI of Adilabad branch, at MSP of Rs 4,050 by the middlemen and owner of the ginning factories.

Even the Adilabad marketing department claimed that its revenue in terms of taxes on cotton purchases had been increased, contradicting the agriculture department figures.        

Irregularities in sale of subsidised red onions

Subsidized red onions being supplied by the state government has brought great relief to the poor in the wake of skyrocketing prices in the open market.

But apart from the poor ,even some government employees and members of financially sound families are seen queuing up in front of the sales counters for subsidized red onions.

State government is reportedly bearing Rs 29 subsidy amount on each kg red onions which it purchases for Rs 46 per kg from wholesale Lasalgaom market in Nashik in bordering Maharashtra and incurs Rs 3 transport charges per kg. But, it supplies 2 kg of those onions for Rs 20 k per kg to each family.

It is learnt that state government is purchasing huge quantities of red onions from Lasalgaom market for all the districts in the state.

Nearly 230 quintals of subsidized red onion have been distributed to customers on showing Aaadhar card, ration card or any other proof in the last 20 days at Adilabad Rythu Bazar alone.

Long queues were seen in front of the selling counter at Rythu Bazars for subsidized red onions being supplied through marketing department.

Incharge Estate officer of Adilabad Rythu Bazar Jaisheelan said there was good demand for subsidized red onions as the white onions are being sold at Rs 50 -60 per kg in the open market.

There are strong allegations that some of the officials in marketing department are diverting the subsidized red onions to black market and hotels and restaurants due to lack of checks by top officials and that they are not maintaining the details of the sales and customers.

As many as102 tones and 80 kg red onions have been allotted to the Adilabad district so far from August5 and among them 82 tones and 86 kg have been sold till now.

Assistant Director of Marketing T. Srinivas said the state government is bearing nearly Rs 29 on each kg red onions and added that two or more members of the same family are taking subsidized onions with their individual Aaadhar cards and opined that it would be good if ration card is made as identity proof to check this.

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Adivasis flock Jangubai temple

Adivasis of Mankguda in Danthanpalli to Jangubai temple

All roads are leading to cave temple of Jangubai located in the deep jungles in Kerameri mandal on the borders of Telangana and Maharashtra states.

Thousands of Adivasi devotees from Maharashtra and Telangana districts are coming here to have darshan of Goddess Jangubai to fulfill their vows.

As Adivasis believe that goddess Jangubai used to stay in the caves, the religious heads of eight Gond clans are now lighting an earthen lamp in the cave. Having darshan of Jangubai gives a spiritual experience which cannot be described in words.

Adivasis come with their families and other villagers as a group. They stay in the jungles only during the night time and start their journey covering all their religious places enroute to the Jangubai temple. 

The pilgrimage to the Jangubai may even take one week or more for the people of distant places in the Adilabad and other parts of Telangana and also bordering Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Odisha.

The material required for religious event and other luggage will kept in bullock carts and some time place their children in them and the elders walk on foot.

They strongly believe that Jangubai is powerful goddess and their wishes will be fulfilled if they pray for her. Though they have been performing special pujas at Jangubai from the time immemorial, the number of devotees coming to the temple is increasing now.

Jangubai temple chairman Marapa Bhajirao, said the special pujas will be performed at the temple thrice in a year and it starts in the pusyamas and will continue in the entire month and added the drinking water has become major problem for the devotees and the Telangana government must make proper arrangements.                               

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