Tribals protest by ‘hanging’ over denial of ration, Aadhaar cards and welfare schemes in Vizianagaram

As galore arsenic sixty tribal people, including women and children, staged a caller protestation connected Friday by symbolically hanging themselves to gully attraction to the inordinate hold successful the issuing of ration cards, Aadhaar cards and implementation of payment schemes successful the villages of Ramana Valasa, Deevena Valasa and others successful Vizianagaram district.

In Ramana Valasa village, the tribals constructed a makshift gallow with bamboo sticks. Wearing nooses astir their necks, they held placards to gully attraction to decades agelong injustice meted retired to them.

According to the villagers, 5 hamlets travel nether the jurisdiction of Gopalarayudu Peta panchayat successful Bobbili Assembly constituency of Vizianagaram district. They said that they had submitted petitions respective times done the Public Grievance Redress System astatine the Collector’s office, but the Tribal and Revenue officials had not responded to their petitions for hold of authorities schemes and Aadhaar enrollment, which acts arsenic a residential impervious and individuality card.  

Following their caller protest, section gross officials rushed to the spot and promised to resoluteness their problems arsenic the earliest.