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The Hindu
07-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Vidasam demands recovery of ‘freehold land' from land grabbers and its return to Dalits
The 6 lakh acres of land in Visakhapatnam district, which was declared freehold in violation of G.O. No. 596, should be acquired and returned to the STs, and the reports of the two Special Investigation Teams (SITs), formed during the TDP and YSRCP governments, should be made public, demanded Vistrutha Dalita Sanghala Aikya Vedika (Vidasam) State convener Busi Venkata Rao. A protest was organised by Dalit organisations at the Gandhi statue, near GVMC, on Monday (July 07). Addressing the gathering, Mr. Venkata Rao alleged that some political leaders had grabbed around 6 lakh acres of assigned lands in the district, by taking undue advantage of G.O. issued by the previous government on assigned lands. This was confirmed by the Cabinet Sub Committee. He warned that the kingpins behind the assigned land scam were trying to join the present coalition government and trying to influence the government to legalise the lands grabbed by them. He alleged that the land grabbers had got their names included after removing the names of the original landholders and converting the land into 'freehold'. He alleged that some influential persons in the present government were advising that only registration fee should be collected from the 'land grabbers'. He demanded that the government should acquire the freehold lands and reallocate them to the Dalits. He also sought amendment of the G.O. to ensure that purchase and sale of these lands should be allowed only between those belonging to one community. Dalit leader Omkar, who presided over the meeting, criticised the coalition government for failing to initiate any action on the police officials, who had beaten three youths with lathis on the road, in full public view. Another leader T. Srirama Murthy alleged that not even a case was filed by the police when a Dalit area was ostracised by the villagers in Mallam village in Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan's constituency. Dalit leaders K. Chinna Rao, Thantadi Kiran Kumar, Kothapalli Venkata Ramana, Bagam Gopala, Maturu Srinivasa Rao, Sodadasi Sudhakar and D. Nirmala were among those who participated.
The Hindu
04-06-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Give tender contracts to SCs, demands Vidasam
Vistruta Dalit Sanghams (VIDASAM) State convener Busi Venkata Rao has demanded that the tenders for supply of material for residential schools, hostels, rural water supply, panchayat raj and others being executed with the SC Sub-Plans funds be given to the SCs only. Addressing the media on Tuesday, Mr. Venkata Rao said the government had allocated ₹20,281 crore for SC Sub-Plan, and of this, ₹9,000 crore has been allocated to social security pensions and other schemes. The remaining ₹11,000 crore has been allocated to various projects intended to benefit SCs, he said, adding that the works of these projects should be given to SCs only. Works like laying of roads, water tanks, water pipelines and electricity lines should be given to SCs, he demanded. He said the government spends ₹150 crore on the supply of various commodities such as vegetables, eggs, pulses and others for providing meals to more than 1.04 lakh students in 750 social welfare hostels and 50 residential schools in the State, but not a single contract was given to the SCs.
