Vexed by govt. delay, tribals lay 3 km road toiling for five days in ASR district
The Hindu
Residents of a tribal hamlet in ASR district take matters into their own hands to build a road.
Troubled by the lack of road access and vexed by the delay by government agencies in laying a road, the residents of a hilltop tribal hamlet in Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) district have decided to address the issue themselves.
About 200 tribal people came together and toiled for five days to form a three-kilometre kutcha road stretch from Gummanthi to Dayarthi village.
In 2022, ₹1.5 crore was sanctioned by the then Collector of erstwhile Visakhapatnam district A. Mallikarjuna under NREGS for laying of a seven-km B.T. from Ballagaruvu to Dayarathi, which is yet to see the light of the day. Ballagaruvu is the downhill village from where people of hillltop villages can reach other places. Gummanthi is in between, at a distance of three km.
About 110 families belonging Kondh, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), with a population of 450 live on the hilltop village of Dayarthi. There are 11 villages in the surroundings, with a total population of 2,000, under the purview of Pedakota, Pinakota and Jeenabadu panchayats of Anantagiri mandal in the district.
A road was constructed by the Tribal Welfare Department from Ballagaruvu to Gummanthi at a cost of ₹38 lakh during 2018-19 but it was washed away due to heavy rains. In 2022, funds to the tune of ₹1.50 crore were sanctioned to the Panchayat Raj Department for laying of a gravel road.
Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan laid the foundation for the construction of a road from Gummanthi to Rachakilam via Reddipalem on December 22, 2024. He also inspected a
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