The tale of tribal loss
The HinduTo welcome someone who is not a part of their tribe, the Khond women in Kothaveedhi village, in Cheedikada mandal of Anakapalli district in Andhra Pradesh, wash their feet and hands. “We find that our names have been removed from the digitised land records and this practically makes us homeless people, despite being the tillers of this 65 cents of land,” says Vanthala Nageswara Rao, who was the first to come here with his wife, Vanthala Kumari, and friend Gemmili Balaraju, Chilakamma’s husband. “If it was a scheduled village, then this problem of calling the tribal people illegal occupants would not have arisen,” he says. “He has extended various welfare schemes to the PVTGs even in the most inaccessible parts of tribal settlements,” says Balaraju, who officiates as an informal headman for the village. QUOTES “If it was a scheduled village, then this problem of calling the tribal people illegal occupants would not have arisen.” Ajay Kumar, general secretary of All India Agricultural Rural Labour Association Chief Minister Y.S.
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