Gonikoppal, Nov. 5: Although the government has implemented various schemes for the welfare of tribals and adivasis, such schemes are not reaching the real beneficiaries. The tribal residents of Gundatkolli in Mattur village under Ponnampet town panchayat limits of Ponnampet taluk are a clear example before us.
The situation is such that there is no department for the development and welfare of Scheduled Castes. Although many decades have passed since independence, the tribals here have been waiting for their own land for about 30 years. The people's representatives here, who get votes during elections and become public leaders, have not turned their attention to this issue for so many years.
In Gundatkolli, a village in Mattur village, which is under the 3rd ward of Ponnampet town panchayat, a short distance from Ponnampet taluk center, 20 tribal families have been living their daily lives with plastic sheets for decades.
The department that should provide basic amenities including toilets, clean drinking water, and electricity has remained silent as if it has nothing to do with it. It has been spending its days giving only vague answers. The people here are using a small well to drink the water that comes out of it. The tribal families here live in plastic-covered bamboo huts with children. As it gets dark, a kerosene lamp lights up the hut house here.
The tribals here, who started their daily livelihood as wage laborers, have gone to the neighboring coffee plantations and found their livelihood. As evening approaches, they step towards their huts. The fact that dozens of requests have been submitted to the officials and people's representatives for their own shelter, but so far their requests have not received any response is a reflection of our administrative system.
The land where 20 tribal families are currently living is listed in the RTC as government land. However, according to the information provided by the department officials, the land where the tribals live is privately owned.
Due to the irresponsibility and negligence of some officials, the work of providing shelter and providing land to the families here has not yet been initiated. Despite meetings being held by high-level officials for the welfare of the tribals, the daily hellish suffering of such families deprived of basic amenities has not come to light anywhere, which can be gauged from the level at which our administrative system is progressing.
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