CM Revanth Aims to Develop Heerapur as Model Gram Panchayat

Adilabad: District officials have conducted a ‘Prajavani’ programme at Heerapur village in Indravelli mandal to resolve problems of the locals and sanction welfare schemes in saturation mode ahead of chief minister A Revanth Reddy's visit to the village.

Revanth Reddy is likely to visit Heerapur in the last week of May or the first week of June.

Officials of various government departments are doing surveys in the grampanchayat to implement the welfare schemes and development works before the arrival of the CM.

The chief minister aims to develop Heerapur as a model gram panchayat by giving it a facelift with the implementation of the Six Guarantees and development initiatives.

On April 20, 2021, Revanth Reddy as the then TPCC working president visited Heerapur and had a community lunch with the adivasis on April 20, 2021.

Recently, the chief minister talked about the decentralisation of Prajavani services and directed the officials to take this programme that’s going on at Praja Bhavan every Tuesday to various locations. This, he had noted, was nothing but a grievance redressal mechanism with a time-bound response.

The CM noted that it was difficult for the people to travel to Hyderabad to get their grievances resolved at Prajavani. “Let us take this, instead, to the mandal headquarters level,” he said.

Subsequently, a grama sabha was held as part of Prajavani in Heerapur, where villagers poured out their grievances on May 4. Local MLA Vedma Bojju, collector Rajarshi Shah and ITDA project officer Manda Makarandu participated in the event.

Collector Rajarshi Shah promised the villagers to resolve the revenue department-related land problems in 15 days. The administration, he said, has prepared proposals for drinking water supply with a fund of Rs.25 lakh for seven habitations in the Heerapur gram panchayat.

The collector said that a survey process was going on to issue ROFR and revenue pattas to the lands being possessed and cultivated by the tribals.

Efforts are being made to conduct Prajavani at the division and mandal headquarter levels instead of just confining this to the district headquarters. Officials would go through each application and resolve the grievances within 30 days and inform the results to the applicant.

Khanapur MLA Vedma Bojju said ITDA-Utnoor officials would lay a road to Heerapur with an outlay of Rs.12 crore and that the chief minister was interested in converting Heerapur into a solar-powered village under a pilot project.

The housing officials meanwhile conducted a survey and found that the Heerapur gram panchayat consisting of seven habitations has 361 houses.

The villagers said they got Indiramma houses 25 years ago with Gunapenka as slab. The old houses are in dilapidated conditions, they said and pleaded that the government allocate Indiramma houses to all the families in the gram panchayat.

Officials said they are making efforts to sanction solar-powered borewells for the development of ROFR lands, erect fencing and provide drinking water supply to all the houses via tap connections apart from supply of LPG for `500 per refill. Villagers would also get free power supply up to 200 units.

Efforts are also on to provide solar power to all the houses.

A ring road is planned from the Indravelli town to Dasnapur via Anji, Vadgaon, Heerapur, Maruthiguda, Laltekdi, Pochampalli and Latchampur, officials said.

The villagers urged the officials to dig an Anki at Vadgaon for irrigation.

Heerapur Sarpanch Thodasam Laxmi told Deccan Chronicle that the villagers are cooperating with the officials coming for surveys in the last few days to sanction welfare schemes and development works before the CM’s visit to the village.

She hoped that the Heerapur would be developed as a model gram panchayat with a facelift being given to it by the chief minister. It would be good if Indiramma houses are sanctioned to all the families and an Angawadi building, a tribal ashram school, a PHC sub-centre and a veterinary hospital are constructed there.

The locals, she said, are currently busy making their traditional arrangements to accord a grand welcome to the CM to their village.