Proposal to declare 40 tribal habitations as Schedule Area hangs in the balance
The Hindu
Residents vexed as officials postponed grama sabha scheduled on November 5
On November 4, Boosani Balaraju, a youth hailing from the Konda Reddy tribe, was perplexed to know about the cancellation of the grama sabha scheduled to be organised the following day on the proposal to declare 40 tribal habitations as Scheduled Area.
Like Mr. Balaraju, thousands of tribal people had a reason to be vexed with the officials, who postponed the grama sabha four times since August.
Meanwhile, the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) Rampachodavaram Project Officer C.V. Praveen Adhithya had issued a fresh notification on November 5 calling for the conduct of the grama sabha on November 19.

“Judicial time is a valuable public resource. Every frivolous or misconceived invocation of constitutional jurisdiction results in diversion of time from genuinely deserving litigants,” said the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court while imposing a cost of ₹50,000 on a man from Theni district who filed a petition with an unusual prayer: permission to conduct daily protests till the ‘World War’ ends.












