Leaders of the Adivasi Girijana Sangham, Andhra Pradesh State Committee, person demanded that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu denote successful the Assembly the cancellation of agreements for hydropower projects, informing that these initiatives could displace tribal communities successful Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR), Anakapalli, Vizianagaram, and Parvatipuram districts.
A roundtable gathering was organised by the Adivasi Girijana Sangham astatine the CITU bureau astatine Jagadamba Junction present connected Sunday to reason the projected manus implicit of tribal lands to firm groups for hydropower development.
The speakers alleged that the projects could displace astir 50,000 radical crossed 250 villages successful the affected districts. They highlighted that the 5th Schedule of the Constitution guarantees tribal rights implicit land, forests, and earthy resources successful Scheduled Areas. They noted that nether the 1/70 Act, the Land Transfer Regulation (LTR) Act, and the PESA (Provisions of Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, backstage and firm entities are prohibited from holding onshore successful these areas. The Supreme Court, successful the 1997 Samata vs. Birla case, had likewise ruled that nary task could beryllium undertaken successful tribal areas without the anterior support of the Gram Sabha.
The leaders besides alleged that amendments to the Forest Rights Act by the BJP-led Central authorities facilitated the transportation of tribal lands to firm groups. They accused the Chandrababu Naidu authorities of accelerating efforts to manus implicit lands successful the Paderu Agency to companies specified arsenic Adani and Navayuga, thereby undermining tribal rights. According to the speakers, the TDP-led authorities is proceeding with agreements connected hydropower projects made during the erstwhile YSRCP medication and had issued G.O. No. 51 to summation the projects’ capacity.
The leaders further alleged that Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan was touring Agency areas and assisting successful the manus implicit of tribal lands to firm entities. Efforts to behaviour drone surveys and people survey stones, they claimed, were being intensified without the consent of section communities.
The participants demanded the cancellation of approvals for each hydropower projects, withdrawal of G.O. No. 51, and the registration of cases nether the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against firm agents conducting unauthorised surveys.
Sangham wide caput Killo Surendra, president Lotha Rama Rao, and K. Satayanarana, State president of the Tribal Employees Union, were among the speakers astatine the meeting.
