Kothagudem: Three forest beat officers and two section officers were injured in an attack by Guthikoya farmers at Mangaligumpu of Maddur gram panchayat in Chandrugonda mandal in the district on Friday. The injured forest officers were admitted to government hospitals at Chandrugonda and Kothagudem. It was said that the forest officials went to the tribal […]
Kothagudem: CPI leaders in the district demanded the forest officials to stop their repression against podu farmers. CPI workers and leaders took out a massive protest rally at Bhadrachalam on Monday in support of their demand and laid siege to the local divisional forest office. Speaking on the occasion the party district secretary SK Sabir […]
Khammam: District Collector VP Gautham appealed to the podu farmers to make use of the Podu Action Plan launched by the State government to address the farmers’ issues. He visited Rajab Ali Nagar in Earlapudi gram panchayat in Raghunathapalem mandal in the district on Tuesday and attended a grama sabha. Speaking on the occasion, he […]
Jayashankar Bhupalapally: District Collector Bhavesh Mishra has directed the authorities concerned to take steps to receive applications in order from the ‘podu’ farmers through Gram Sabhas to provide RoFR title deeds for podu lands from November 8 to 12 in the district. An awareness programme for the district and mandal level officials on receiving claims […]
Khammam: The Konijerla police reportedly filed a memo in the district court on Saturday seeking to drop the attempt to murder charges pressed against 21 people, including 18 women of Konijerla mandal in the district. It might be noted that based on a complaint filed by the Forest Department on August 3, police registered cases […]
Khammam: The podu farmers clashed with Forest Department officials at Regullapadu villages in Sathupalli mandal in the district on Thursday. Two women forest officers were injured in the incident. The Forest officers were trying to prevent tribal farmers from engaging in podu farming in the village and this led to an altercation between the two […]
They were booked for provoking locals of Kondapalli to occupy forest lands and their role in damaging police vehicles and injuring five constables while they were shifting the leaders from Kondapalli on April 9