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‘Tribals being used by naxalites’

Staff Reporter

‘Government is committed to tribal welfare’

About 5,000 tribals attend the mega health camp
Medicines worth Rs.3 lakh distributed free of cost to patients

MANALA (NIZAMABAD Dt): Deputy Inspector General of Police K. Rajaratnam Naidu has observed that the Manala area in Kammarpally mandal is deprived of any sort of development all these years as it had been in the grip of naxalites.

The tribal people who constitute a major chunk of population in the area were used by naxalites for their violent activities keeping them away from mainstream life.

Opening the mega health camp jointly conducted by the district police and the Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad at this village, tucked away in a hilly and forest region abutting Karimnagar border, some 110 km from the district headquarter, he appealed to the tribal youth not to fall prey to the naxalism.

The Government is committed to the welfare of tribal people and introduced several programmes which started yielding results.

The Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s visit to the area in April last year instilled confidence among the people of the backward region, he added.

Unlike the past the police now have been actively involving in social service activities like conducting health camps, donating blood and so on apart from discharging their regular duties.

Thus, the police personnel became closer to the people, he said.

About 5,000 tribal and general people belonging to Manala and peripheral villages attended the mega health camp in which nine expert doctors from Yashoda Hospitals examined the patients suffering from different ailments.

Medicines worth Rs.3 lakh were distributed free of cost to the patients.

Banswada MLA Bajireddy Govardhan attended as the chief guest.

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