The Rajampet

KADAPA: Communist Party of India (CPI) will lead a delegation of displaced farmers of villages in Kondapuram mandal, who awaited compensation for lands taken over for Gandikota project, to district Collector Shashi Bhushan Kumar on September 20, the party's district secretary P. Krishnamurthy said on Thursday.

The displaced farmers were facing untold problems as backwaters were inundating some villages and Gandikota project works were stopped due to lack of flow of Pennar river water to Mylavaram reservoir, Mr. Krishnamurthy said in a sadassu of displaced persons at Kondapuram. Although four years had elapsed, neither the Collector nor the Galeru Nagari Sujala Sravanthi Special Collector initiated measures to pay compensation to the displaced persons, he alleged.

Meeting on Sept. 19
Mr. Krishnamurthy demanded payment of compensation to the displaced as per the prevailing market value. He lamented that the displaced families were yet to be rehabilitated. Their woes would be discussed at a meeting on September 19 and the Collector would be apprised of the outcome on September 20, he said. AITUC district vice-president Gangi Reddy, TDP leader Putha Ramanjaneya Reddy, CPI leaders S. Ramesh and Bhimaraju and farmers Surender Reddy, Ch. Narasimha Reddy, Easwara Rdy, Srinivasulu Reddy and Lakshminarayana Reddy participated.