Lack of voice from the polity of the district and the vested interests of labour contractors to keep the migration on have been heaping injustice on Mahabubnagar since independence, even as it has all resources including the river Krishna flowing across for about 300 km, president of Palamuru Adhyayana Vedika Prof. G. Haragopal said.
The district had been beset with the problems of poverty, drinking water, irrigation, health, education and migration as the local leadership never focused on them and raised them at State level whether it was in Hyderabad State or in combined Andhra Pradesh or in Telangana now. Injustice would be done to the Mahabubnagar again in the coming budget if the voice on issues plaguing the district was not raised, he felt.
Talking to reporters here on Monday he said they were organising a day-long meet here on February 1 with editors of newspapers, intellectuals and organisations to highlight the problems of Mahabubnagar at State level. The labour contractors in the district were encouraging migration of labour in spite of improvement in livelihood opportunities to some extent for their selfish ends and it had been a major impediment in mobilisation of people’s voice on socio-economic issues, he said.
“The Planning Commission had placed Mahabubnagar district among the 20 most backward districts in the country though Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers flowing through the district as its leaders keep silent since independence. Its history would have been different had they raised voice from the beginning”, Prof. Haragopal noted.
He mentioned that Communist stalwart Puchalapalli Sundarayya had demanded allocation of 220 TMC ft water to Mahabubnagar after witnessing the travails of Palamuru people. It was hardly getting about 10 TMC ft water even now as the local leaders neglect the issues in pursuance of their selfish goals, he alleged.
However, the government had been responding only to vocal demands instead of addressing problems objectively on its own, Prof. Haragopal said. Convenor of the vedika M. Raghava Chary and others spoke.
Injustice would be done to the Mahabubnagar again in the coming budget if the voice on issues plaguing the district is not raised: Haragopal
