ITDA urges tribals to vacate Polavaram project area
The Hindu
They refuse to shift until complete settlement of R&R packages
Rampachodavaram Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) Project Officer C.V. Praveen Adithya on Tuesday appealed to the tribal peoples of Devipatnam Mandal to vacate the project area and shift to the rehabilitation colonies. Accompanied by officials, Mr. Praveen Adithya reached some tribal habitations on boat and tried to convince the people there to vacate the villages in the wake inflows of backwater of the Godavari from the Cofferdam site of Polavaram project.The tribunal set up under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (MWPSC) Act, 2007, will not get jurisdiction to annul the gift deed if the deed does not contain the condition that the transferee should provide basic amenities and physical needs to the transferor parent/senior citizen of the property, the High Court of Karnataka has said.
Despite a few anxious moments when he was trailing during the counting of votes, BJP’s P.C. Mohan has been elected as Member of Parliament for the fourth term from the Bengaluru Central constituency. He defeated Congress candidate Mansoor Ali Khan by a margin of 32,707 votes. In an interview with The Hindu, Mr. Mohan shared his vision and ideas to develop Bengaluru as a global city, and spoke about lake development and speedy completion of ongoing projects such as suburban rail among his top priorities.