Gaddar takes to FB on TRS

After TJAC chairman Prof. Kodandaram, it is now balladeer Gaddar who spoke out two- year rule of TRS government.

Posting a video on his Facebook page, Gaddar stressed on social justice and equal and democratic distribution of wealth among the people of the Telangana.

He shared his experience with dispensing natural when he was with the Adivasis in the forests long back. Gaddar said village elders gave two- shares of meat to a woman who participated in hunting an animal in the forest.

‘I was told by the Adivasi elders that woman was given two shares as she was pregnant : One share was for her and another was for the baby in  her womb’, he said in live chat.

Gaddar said that this was explained to him when he asked Adivasi elders why the said woman was given two shares, unlike all others who got one each.

Gaddar said in the video posted on his official FB page that the process should start to dispense this kind of natural justice to the people of Telangana as the TRS      government had completed two years in power.

State government should take steps to create a situation wherein people of Rayalaseema, Seemandhra and Coastal AP who have settled in Telangana feel happy and are at peace.

He said the land was the main problem in the Telangana.  “Today’s politics need  money, media, mafia , kafia and lofia. He said people of the Telangana have fought for a separate state to get their share of land, water, funds and jobs.

Gaddar has started his live chat on two –year rule of TRS with his famous song “Podusthunna Poddu Meeda... Nadusthunna Kalama Poru Telanganama..’ This song reverberated during the Telangana agitation and people regarded it their very own . 

Opencast mining turns into a battlefield in state

 Villagers of Erraguntapalle destroying foundation stone of opencast mine 

New opencast mines are running into stiff opposition. 

Even as Singareni is planning to establish more opencast mines in the coming days to increase its coal production, resistance to this style of mining is rising.

The Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) management has announced that they will open 25 new mines in the coming five years in the Telangana.

Singareni is planning to establish Kalyani Khani in Mandamarri and expansion of Abbapur -2 opencast mines in Tandur mandal.

It is assumed that certainly there will be new opencast mines and expansion of existing opencast mine. 

The move is snowballing into a major controversy with dissent from the oustees and people’s organizations. The TJAC led by M. Kodandaram took up the issue and chalked out an action plan to fight opencast mining.

Many social activists and environmentalists joined the hands with the people being affected with opencast mines.

The oustees of Srirampur opencast mine belonging to Thallapalli and Singapur villages are still agitating for the payment of rehabilitation and resettlement pack offered to them while evacuating them from their villages.

District police wrote a letter to the district administration asking it to clear the compensation to the oustees without delay as agitations for compensation creating law and order problem in the Mancherial area.

Now, villagers of Erraguntapalle have been agitating opposing the KK opencast mine saying that they will not give away their fertile lands and opencast mines destroy environment and cause pollution.           

Peddapelli Laxmaiah of Thallapelli village in Mancherial mandal complained that he was yet to get Rs 15 lakh compensation for his lands acquired under Srirampur opencast mine in 2005. 

According to sources, Singreni is planning to establish few new opencast mines in the eastern part and also in the west part of the district.

In its surveys, Singareni found coal deposits were between Srirampur of Mancherial to Sirpur(T) en route Bellampalli, Tandur, Rebbena, Asifabad, Sirpur ( T) and along the river Pranahitha.

Singareni claims that coal deposits also found near Movvad in Asifabad mandal located close to the historical place Jodeghat in Kerameri mandal and along the river Penganga and in Bela mandal in the west part of the district.

Singareni management has stopped mining coal from Goleti-IA underground mine in Rebbena mandal. The Dorli –I and II opencast mines and Khairiguda opencast mines are in operational.