A 400-year-old Singaram village set to go off the map
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The statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the entry level stands witness to the transformation the village has seen in the latest previous. This village is in Kondapaka mandal of Gajwel constituency, represented by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, is quickly going to disappear from the map and be submerged underneath Mallannasagar.
The village has about 200 homes with a inhabitants of about 600 individuals. This village has some 400-year historical past. The residents say the village was based on an Inam given to a household some 400 years in the past. The household that was given the Inam settled right here with 5 households and slowly it grew to its present standing.
“My ancestors were the first family to come here some 400 years ago. My forefather was given the inam for the land and he brought along another four families from different sections of society and established this village. The village today has some 900 acres of farm land,” an aged resident of the village Ghulam Ghouse Mohiduddin Iqbal advised The Puucho.
“The government acquired the lands along with all the houses in our village. It is to the credit of all the residents of the village that not one court case was filed against the land acquisition process,” Mr. Iqbal added.
During final week, the villagers went to Mutrajpally to examine the homes that have been being constructed for them in the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Colony. The officers advised them that it could take one other three months to full the homes allotted to them and urged that they vacate the village and shift to non permanent lodging at Sangapur. However, the villagers are reluctant to transfer from the village. They say they would favor to wait and shift to their everlasting residences as a substitute of going by means of the extra pressure and expenditure of shifting twice.
“The officials are yet to provide water connection, drain and power. We are asking them to provide power and water connection. The sewerage system can be established in due course. In the meanwhile pits can be dug and septic tanks built using concrete rings,” Mr. Iqbal mentioned.
He was the first one in the village to hand over 60 acres of household lands to the authorities for the development of Mallannasagar and the household has invested the total quantity in Hyderabad as a substitute of trying to reinvest in farm lands. “I have become a zero acre farmer from a landlord owning 60 acres in the village. We bought property in Hyderabad instead of agriculture lands as the present generation is not ready to take up farming,” he added.
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