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The CPI(M) has urged Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to revoke the approvals granted to the hydro-power projects successful the tribal areas and reconstruct the earthy information of the Epurupalem Strait Cut canal successful Prakasam district.
In abstracted letters addressed to the Chief Minister connected Thursday, CPI(M) State caput V. Srinivasa Rao alleged that the government’s determination to authorisation pumped retention hydro- powerfulness projects successful the Fifth Schedule areas of Alluri Sitharama Raju, Parvathipuram-Manyam, and Anakapalli districts violated tribal rights and biology laws.
He said the G.O.s (Nos. 51, 13, and 2) issued to companies specified arsenic Navayuga, Megha, Adani, and Sri Shirdi Sai were issued without the consent of the section tribal gram sabhas, contravening the PESA Act, Forest Rights Act, and the 1/70 Land Transfer Regulation. These projects, helium warned, would submerge astir 20,000 acres of onshore crossed 250 villages, displacing astir 50,000 tribals and threatening wood ecosystems.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao recalled that 2 Adani-linked projects successful Parvathipuram-Manyam had been cancelled successful July pursuing protests, yet others continued contempt beardown opposition. He demanded the contiguous cancellation of each related G.O.s, ineligible enactment against companies intimidating tribals, and autarkic enquiry by the NHRC and NCST.
In different letter, helium highlighted the plight of fishermen successful Chirala mandal’s Epurupalem area, wherever backstage developers had allegedly filled up a earthy canal to physique resorts, blocking sportfishing routes and damaging implicit 45 boats. He sought the restoration of the canal’s earthy shape, removal of amerciable coastal structures, compensation for affected fishermen, and enactment against violators.
He said the authorities indispensable enactment urgently to uphold tribal and coastal assemblage rights and support earthy resources from firm encroachment.
