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Relay fast by Kolleru residents
Residents of Kolleru started a relay hunger strike at Sriparru village in Eluru Rural mandal on Friday, demanding that the Government reduce the contour level from fifth to third.
Eluru: Residents of Kolleru started a relay hunger strike at Sriparru village in Eluru Rural mandal on Friday, demanding that the Government reduce the contour level from fifth to third.
People in Sriparru village have been raising the issue of reducing the contour level to three as the GO No 120 mentioned the fifth contour for the protection of Kolleru Lake.
Several MLAs, MPs and TDP leaders represented the issue to the Government to reduce the fifth contour level to third contour, which enable the fishermen of the Kolleru area to take up the fishponds and cultivation in fifth contour for their livelihood.
As the forest officials started raiding the villagers who tried to catch fish or breed fish in fish ponds, the villagers have been expressing their concern over the situation.
On Friday, the villagers led by Saidu Govardhan, Ghantasala Venkata Lakshmi and others started the relay hunger strike in the village.
Speaking on the occasion, they said that they had been demanding that the government reduce the fifth contour to third contour and give the opportunity to cultivate the lands of Fisheries Cooperative Society that were given during the then Chief Minister Jalagam Vengala Rao.
They demanded that the Government pay the compensation of Rs 30 lakh per acre to the farmers who lost their zirayti lands. They asked the Government to exempt the society lands from the purview of a bird sanctuary in every village and also exempt the upland lands (AWD) and sanction two acres to each eligible person. About 50,000 families were eking out their livelihood in Kolleru villages, they stated.
They wanted the government to exempt all the roads from the Kolleru Bird Sanctuary in West Godavari and Krishna districts.They asked the Government to construct regulators in two places across Upputeru to facilitate people of 122 villages in Krishna, West Godavari Kolleru lake area to take up the conventional fishing in all seasons.
They also demanded that the government provide drainage facility to the Kolleru villages as there was high pollution due to the factories’ effluents which were harming the people and birds, animals of the Kolleru area.
