Thirty-eight displaced families from Velugumatla performed Bhoomi Puja for houses at Bhoodan lands in Khammam. Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao laid the foundation stone and said the colony would be developed as a model settlement with basic infrastructure
Khammam police registered cases against 13 persons for illegally collecting money from poor families by promising housing plots on Bhoodan lands in Velugumatla. Four accused have been arrested, and police said the money would be recovered and returned