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Andhra Pradesh

Panchayat Raj bodies to hold awareness meets

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj (PR) People's Representatives and Employees Association and 25 allied bodies will organise meetings at all the district headquarter towns to improve awareness among its members.

At a press conference here on Thursday, the chamber president, Yalamanchili Babu Rajendra Prasad, and president, Andhra Pradesh Sarpanches Association, Padala Venkata Rama Reddy, said that for the first time, a Joint Action Committee (JAC) had been formed at the State-level. In the next seven weeks, the district-level JACs would be constituted and meetings held at all headquarter towns, he said, adding that on August 2, they would stage a dharna and conduct a meeting in the State capital to focus attention on their demands.

The State-level JAC has been formed and has prepared a memorandum with 15 demands. The main demand is the Government should give up its plans to have Revenue Secretaries, `Karnams', `Munsiffs' and `Tehsildars' in the villages. If by August 2, the Government does not think of fulfilling the demands, they would launch an agitation.

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