Dry tanks add to heat in Telangana

Forest animals are struggling to quench their thirst as streams and rivulets have dried up and water has evaporated from all the water bodies due to soaring temperatures in the Adilabad district of Telangana.

The forest staff has failed to create additional drinking water sources for them. Forest animals especially herbivores are straying into villages in search of water and fall prey to poachers even in Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) during the summer.

Some of the solar pump sets set up in the identified places to provide drinking water to the forest animals were defunct as water motors are not functioning and unidentified persons had stolen the water pipelines in the core area of the Kawal Tiger Reserve.

A field level worker said, the saucer wells meant for the forest animals received water for a brief spell but the water has evaporated within no time due to high temperatures. 

However, there was some greenery in the forest due to unexpected rains that struck the district recently and this is helpful for the herbivores.

Forest officials have to fill the saucer wells with water to quench the thirst of the forest animals on a regular basis but there has been no activity there..

Forest animals have no opportunity to cool their body with the water in the summer due to dry streams and rivulets in the forests. The deep trenches with fencing separating the reserve forest and villages at some points to restrict the entry of the vehicles and people into forests and wood smuggling has proved costly  to the forest animals as they cannot cross the trenches for water.

                                                                                                         ( May 28, 2015)

Students to teach illiterate parents daily

School going children of class VIII, IX and X will teach alphabets, words, numbers and reading and writing to their illiterate parents for one hour in the evening after returning from school in the villages in Telangana. It is found that there are 8,44,556 adult illiterates in the  Adilabad district. 

Students will teach to their parents to make them literates under ‘Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu’ programme for three months to be implemented from October2 as literacy rate was low in the state in general and Adilabad district in particular. ‘Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu’ programme is continuation of Grama Jyoti. 

Members of the education committee formed under Grama Jyoti will look after the implementation of Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu. The state government is launching this new programme on the Gandhi Jayanti.

District Chief planning officer Sheik Meera said ‘the target illiterates are mostly laborers of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), field workers, mates and member of Self Help Groups and mothers committees and added that illiterates in the villages had been identified as part of Integrated Household Survey conducted in the past in the state’. 

Telangana state literacy rate was pegged at 67 percent while Adilabad is 61 percent and there was below 50 percent literacy rate in 37 mandals out of total 52 in the district.

State government is focusing in increasing literacy rate to ensure that the farmers, laborers and others can manage their bank transactions and muster rolls under NREGS, maintain registers properly in the Mandal Samakyas and Village organization of SHGs.

It is said state government of the opinion that illiteracy has become one of the hurdles in achieving the development and transparency and good governance and literacy among the rural masses will go long way in day today activities of individuals and their growth. Adult education department will also get involved in the students teaching to their illiterate parents and will supply study material to the latter.