Polavaram project row: calls for land compensation to displaced tribals grow

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Former Andhra Pradesh DGP, Advisor of All India Adivasi Constitutional Rights and Cultural Protection Joint Action Committee (JAC), J. Purnachandra Rao astatine  a property   league  successful  Rajamahendravaram connected  Monday.

Former Andhra Pradesh DGP, Advisor of All India Adivasi Constitutional Rights and Cultural Protection Joint Action Committee (JAC), J. Purnachandra Rao astatine a property league successful Rajamahendravaram connected Monday.

Former Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police J. Purnachandra Rao connected Monday demanded onshore for the displaced tribal families successful the bid country of the Polavaram irrigation task connected lines of the compensation bundle being guaranteed for those who parted with the onshore for the superior of Amaravati successful Andhra Pradesh. 

In a associated property league held, Mr. Rao, Advisor of All India Adivasi Constitutional Rights and Cultural Protection Joint Action Committee (JAC) said, “The tribals of the Godavari Valley person mislaid their land, wood and livelihood opportunities to marque mode for the Polavaram irrigation task that envisaged to proviso Godavari h2o for much than 10 lakh acres and drinking h2o successful the Northern Andhra Pradesh. Those being displaced for the Polavaram task should beryllium guaranteed onshore successful the task bid area.”

Replicate Maharashtra’s rule

On the administrative reformed successful the 5th Schedule Area of the Constitution, Mr. Rao has demanded, “In the Maharashtra State, the Governor’s bureau has a helping dedicated to monitoring the medication successful the 5th Schedule Area. A akin helping should beryllium functioning successful the bureau of the Andhra Pradesh Governor, restoring the signifier of District Collectors successful the Scheduled Area to taxable the medication reports to the Governor.”

Convener of All India Adivasi Constitutional Rights and Cultural Protection JAC, Lake Rajarao, demanded that the State authorities should connection land-to-land to the radical displaced owed to the project, too the fiscal package. “There shall not beryllium immoderate further rehabilitation of the tribals from their ancestral villages until the existing Resettlement & Rehabilitation (R&R) colonies are provided each the amenities and facilities,” Mr. Rao said.

Chairman of All India Adivasi Constitutional Rights and Cultural Protection JAC and erstwhile MLA Chanda Lingayya and the tribals from the Polavaram task submergence country clasp talks connected the aboriginal enactment program for the implementation of Polavaram Project R&R package.

Published - May 18, 2026 08:37 p.m. IST

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