BRS to support farmers opposing Pharma Hub

The party leaders and huge number of workers will participate in a massive dharna in these villages on Thursday, to express their solidarity to the farmers fight

Sangareddy: Bharata Rastra Samithi (BRS) will be supporting the farmers of Dappur, Vaddy and Malgi villages in their fight against the proposed pharma hub in their villages.

The party leaders and huge number of workers will participate in a massive dharna in these villages on Thursday, to express their solidarity to the farmers fight.

The government had recently announced that a pharma hub would be set up on 2,000 acres of land very close to river Manjeera, the prime drinking water source for Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Medak and Kamareddy districts.

Since more than 85 per cent of lands identified for acquisition were fertile, farmers were getting two crops every year. This had prompted a strong opposition from farmers.

Since the streams flowing through these villages join the river Manjeera, environmentalists were also opposing the move since effluents would pollute the river.

As the river Manjeera was also a well-known wildlife sanctuary in the State, environmentalist warned that the proposed pharma hub would damage the habitat of the birds and wildlife.

Manjeera is home to 300 varieties of bird species, which include 117 migrants. It is also a home for more than 500 mugger crocodiles.