CHINTOOR Telangana-based Gussadi dancer Kanaka Sudarshan said the displacement of Koya and Konda Reddi tribes from the Godavari river to make way for the Polavaram irrigation project appears to be a ‘forcible partition of brothers in a family’. Speaking to The Hindu on the sidelines of the 5th National Tribal Dance Festival being organised by the Adivasi Samkshema Parishad here, …
On June 12, Vetla Mutyala Reddi, 36, from the Konda Reddi tribe, put forward his charter of 10 demands to the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Aims to irrigate 4.36 lakh hectares, generate 960 MW of hydropower, supply drinking water to 611 villages 80 TMC of Godavari water to be diverted to the Krishna …
In the last week of June, Kunja Sai Kumar, a farmer belonging to the Koya tribe, was jubilant as he sat with the 160 families of his community in Mukunuru village for a dinner. “We are apprehensive that the water level in the Godavari will constantly hover above the first flood warning level of 43 ft at Bhadrachalam once the …
