Police attends Adivasi weddings

A traditional Adivasi marriage is in progress

Police officials were seen attending marriages of Adivasi youth without fail in the hot summer in interior places to get closer to the Adivasis in the district. 

Police are trying to make a good impression on Adivasis with new gestures.   

Police are attending the marriages of Adivasi youth who were active in their student organizations and actively participated in the agitations for the rights of Adivasis.

It is a general practice that police to organize free medical camps, laying roads to interior Adivasi gudems with shramadanam, conducting sports and games events to youth, distributing sports kits, clothes, and blankets and giving free coaching to Adivasi youth appearing for police constable and SI and other examinations under police meekosam and people friendly police.

Now, police officials are making their presence felt at Adivasi youth marriages to develop friendly relations to suits their slogan ‘people friendly police’.

It is surprising to note here is that district administration even selected few Adivasi and Dalit youth as best social activists (Uttama Udyamakarulu) and felicitated them with appreciation certificates on the special occasions.

Police are also relaxing the restrictions at the special occasion for the Adivasis to send a message to the community that they respect the sentiments of Adivasis. 

Connecting through roads

 the 6.5 km gravel road laid to Chilaplli 

District Police is trying to ‘connect’ them to the people of interior villages especially Naxal effected by laying roads through Shramadanam under police meekosam.

Gravel road for 6.5 km distance was laid on the existing damaged metal road to Chilapalli from Sirpur (T) mandal headquarters in five days by involving the people of seven villages in Chilapalli and Malini grampanchayats and also with the supporter of the local tractor and JCB owners.

The ITDA engineers had prepared Rs 20 lakh estimations to lay the same gravel road in the past.

With this road, road connectivity has improved to the interior Limbuguda,Medipalli, Ravanpalli,Pusuguda in Chilapalli grampanchayat and also Chinna Malini and Pedda Malini villages.Nearly 200 villagers of two grampanchayats voluntarily participated in the road laying works.     

Two and four wheelers used to take one hour horrible ride to reach Chilapalli from Sirpur (T) and the time has reduced to 15 minutes now with newly laid gravel road under Shramadanam.

These two gramapachayats comprises total population of 5,000 and among them 90 percent were primitive Kolam and Gond Adivasis. 

Till recent past, people of seven villages of two grampanchayats had faced difficulties in emergency due to poor road connectivity to Chilapalli from the mandal headquarters but things have changed with the improved road connectivity. However, there was Bt road to Malini grapanchayat from Chilapalli.

Sirpur (T) Sub-inspector Pushpala Ramarao said, ‘the villagers brought the issue of poor road connectivity to their Malini grampanchayat during the free medical camp conducted there under police mee kosam recently and he took the initiative to improve the road connectivity to Malini on the instructions of SP Dr. Tarun Joshi and DSP Gummy Chakravarthy.

‘Certainly the newly laid gravel road will enable the villagers easily reaching to the Sirpur (T) town and also 104, 108 medical ambulances can to reach these two interior grampachayats within no time now unlike in the past.’

Sarpanch of Chilapalli Surpam Arju said, ‘the gravel road laid on existing damaged metal road with the initiative by the local police has brought great relief to the people of the seven villages under two grampanchayats especially in emergency’.  

Play active role in Grama Jyoti, Ministers tell villagers

Ministers go through guidelines of Gramajyoti 

Minister or forest and environment Jogu Ramanna said the state government was encouraging the people through Grama Jyoti to create development works which can be done through ‘Shramadanam’ by the villagers instead of spending funds.

He elaborated that there were many works which can be done with Shramadanam like laying gravel roads, sanitation and eradication of open defecation, planting trees and filling the ditches and patching the potholes on the roads.

While attending an awareness meeting on the scheme to the elected public representatives of local bodies and MLAs in Adilabad, Jogu Ramanna said people should not think that they shelved the ‘Mana Vooru Mana  Pranalika’ programme.

He added that Grama Jyoti to be implemented based on the data collected through Mana Vooru Mana Pranalika only and Grama Jyoti was extension to it.

Endowments Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that Adilabad district will get Rs 2,413 crore funds in four years under Grama Jyoti for the development of the works in villages.

He appealed to the people to actively take part in the Grama Jyoti programme to be held from August 17 to 23 and added that officials and elected public representatives would stay during night in the villages for three days that is August 19 to 21 during progamme.

Indrakaran Reddy said works passed by Grama Sabha only will be taken up during the programme and that the village leaders, sarpanch and elected representatives of local bodies should decided the needs of the villagers. 

Minister said people should themselves in the Grama Jyoti to convert their villages as model villages like Gangadevipalli in Warangal, Ankapoor in Nizamabad , Mulkanoor in Karimnagar.