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CPI workers’ protest at Narsipatnam today

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Demand for bridges across Tandava

Party workers to lay siege to RDO office
‘All representations have gone unheeded’

VISAKHAPATNAM: The district council of CPI will be organising a ‘siege RDO office’ programme at Narsipatnam on Wednesday to renew its demand to construct bridges on the Tandava at two places in the district, in the absence of which people of several villages are facing problem.

When the inflow is heavy in the Tandava, villagers of Bommika, Kantharam, Baalaram, Bikuluru, R. Potturu and Adarla are completely cut off from rest of the district. A bridge should be constructed at Chodyam in Golugonda mandal, bordering Koyyuru mandal to resolve the problem.

Likewise, when the outflow is heavy Sarugudu, Chemmachinta, Vedurupalli, Krishnapuram along with R. Potturu and Adarla are not accessible. People of these villages are demanding a bridge to be constructed at Chemmachinta in Natavaram to overcome the problem.

After the CPI made repeated demands, the Government agreed to construct a bridge near Chemmachinta and assured that it would be completed by November 2007 but work was not grounded even now, said party’s district secretary J.V. Satyanarayana Murthy.

After works mentioned in the estimates made in the past were found not suitable, the R and B Department wanted to revise the estimate but the proposal was pending for the last three months, he said.

The CPI would be organising the protest at Narsipatnam to press the Government to start work on the bridge and the other bridge required by the villagers.

Padayatra planned

Mr. Satyanarayana Murthy also said that a ‘padayatra’ would be organised by fishermen from November 12 to 21 in the district against setting up of chemical industries as they would destroy the marine wealth and deny them of their livelihood.

He pointed out that due to effluents released into the sea by a chemical industry located near Bheemunipatnam, fish caught by fishermen of two nearby villages were found to unfit for consumption and the fishermen were losing heavily.

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