To make the Government solve many important and
long-pending problems of Girijans, the district committee of the CPI(M)
is organising Girijana Garjana at Araku Valley on March 6 in which
party's polit bureau member Brinda Karat will participate. State
secretariat members M. Babu Rao, who is a former MP, and Ch. Narasinga
Rao will also participate.
Girijans in Visakha Agency
are still plagued with problems like lack of protected drinking water,
roads, power and houses while the Forest Rights Act, NREGS, pattas for
podu lands etc. were yet to be implemented by the Congress Government
which was in power for the last 10 years, Mr. Narasinga Rao said at a
press conference he addressed along with district secretary K.
Lokanadham here on Tuesday.
The CPI(M) leaders said
local Ministers and people's representatives of the Congress had failed
to improve the lot of Girijans in spite of being ruling party members.
They had more concern for themselves than for Girijans, Mr. Narasinga
Rao said. The Girijan Ministers of the ruling party had done little for
their people even as the threat of bauxite mining in the Agency still
loomed large. Not issuing pattas in the areas where bauxite mining was
proposed was an indication of Government's intention to take up bauxite
mining. Permission for laterite mining was being given through backdoor
method, the CPI(M) leader said.
The FR Act came into
effect nine years ago but individual rights were given only over 36,000
acres and 3400 acres for community rights while four lakh acres of land
was available to be given to 1.25 lakh families.
(courtesy : The Hindu)
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