CPI to raise ryots' issues at Janmabhoomi meetings

By Our Staff ReporterVIJAYAWADA, DEC. 22. The Communist Party of India (CPI) will raise the issue of low paddy prices in the Rythu Janmabhoomi going to be held in the first week of January. The lack of remunerative prices for paddy this season and the problems being faced by problems were discussed by the regional conference to achieve pending projects held here on Thursday.

Party leaders, including the State secretary, Mr Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Mr K Subba Raju and Mr Kolli Nageswara Rao, decided that the State Government should be taken to task on these two issues in the Rythu Janmabhoomi.

Delegates from Krishna, Guntur and West Godavari district participated in the regional conference and approved 18 resolutions related to pending irrigation projects and irrigation problems.

The regional conference demanded that the State Government to begin work on the Pulichintala, Polavaram projects, Tarakarama and VTPS lift irrigation schemes immediately.

It demanded that steps be taken to stop seasonal floods in the Budameru rivulet. The State Government was urged to convert the Brahmalingam tank into a reservoir of the Nagarjuna Sagar waters for irrigating lands in its ayacut. The Government was asked to begin work immediately on the Vedadri-Kanchela lift irrigation scheme and construct a reservoir on Ramileru near Mirjapuram. It demanded that the Canal Road caved in here be strengthened and widened expeditiously.

The conference, addressing the problems of farmers in the tail- end areas, demanded that canals be streamlined to ensure that water is distributed equitably.

An agitation programme was chalked out to highlight the problems of the farmers. A three-month-long campaign will be launched in January to focus the demands of the conference.

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