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పాలమూరు జిల్లాలో చేనేతకు పెట్టింది పేరు గద్వాల చీరలు, అలాగే నారాయణపేట చీరలు. ఈ రెండు ప్రాంతాలకు జిల్లాలోని ఇతర ప్రాంతాలలో దాదాపు 50 కిలోమీటర్ల పరిధిలో ఈ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carped.wordpress.com&blog=440870&post=633&subd=carped&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>రాజోళిలో ఇప్పుడు మగ్గాల శబ్దాలు ఆగిపోయాయి. నేతన్నల హృదయాలు పగిలిపోయాయి. ప్రపంచానికి బట్టలందించే నేతన్నలు నేడు దాతలందించిన పాత బట్టలు మూటల్లో వెతుక్కొని కొలతలు చేసుకొని వేసుకుంటున్నారు. ఎవరేమైనా బయటి నుంచి ఏదైనా ఇస్తారేమోనని రచ్చకట్ట దగ్గర వచ్చిపోయే వాహనాల వెంబడి ఆశగా ఎదురు చూస్తూ రోజులు గడుపుతున్నారు.</p>
<p>పాలమూరు జిల్లాలో చేనేతకు పెట్టింది పేరు గద్వాల చీరలు, అలాగే నారాయణపేట చీరలు. ఈ రెండు ప్రాంతాలకు జిల్లాలోని ఇతర ప్రాంతాలలో దాదాపు 50 కిలోమీటర్ల పరిధిలో ఈ చీరలను నేస్తున్న గ్రామాలు ఉన్నాయి. ముఖ్యంగా ఈ నేత పనిని ఈ జిల్లాలో పద్మశాలి, కుర్ణిసాలి, పట్టు సాలీలు అలాగే ఇతర కూలీలైన కత్రిలు, ముస్లింలు చేస్తున్నారు. ఈ గద్వాల చేనేత క్లస్టర్‌లో చేనేతకు ప్రాముఖ్యమున్న గ్రామం రాజోళి. తుంగభద్ర నది తీరంలో ఉన్న ఈ గ్రామం దాదాపు 50 శాతంపైగా కుటుంబాలు చేనేతపై జీవిస్తున్నాయి. గత పదిహేనేళ్ల క్రితం వరకు కాటన్‌ దుప్పట్లు, లుంగీలు, తువ్వా లు, పంచెలకు పెట్టింది పేరు. &#8216;రాజోళి బట్టలు&#8217; అనే బ్రాండ్‌ పేరుతో వీరి వ్యాపారం సాగుతుండేది.</p>
<p>కాని మారుతున్న కాలంతో పాటు నేత బట్టకు ఉన్న డిమాండ్‌ పడిపోవడం వల్ల వీరు గద్వాల్‌ పట్టు చీరలు నేయడం మొదలుపెట్టారు. అదృష్టం బాగుండి మార్కెట్‌ ఉండడం వల్ల వీళ్ళంతా ఈ నేత పనిచేస్తూ జీవనం సాఫీగా సాగిస్తుండే వారు. గత 5-6 సంవత్సరాల నుంచి వారి పిల్లలను పై చదువులకు పంపిస్తున్నారు. జీవితం కంకర రోడ్డుపై వెళుతున్న ఎడ్ల బండిలాగా సాగుతుండేది. దసరా సరదాగా ఉన్నంతలో పండగ చేసుకున్న సంతోషాన్ని, భవిష్యత్తు కలలను గంగమ్మ ఒక్క పెట్టున ఉప్పొంగి కళ్ళ ముందే గ్రామాన్ని నీట ముంచింది.</p>
<p>బతుకులను ప్రశ్నార్థకంగా మార్చింది. తుంగభద్ర నది పొంగి పొర్లింది. సంకేసు ల డ్యాం నిండి గేట్లు తెరుచుకోలేక హోస్పే ట్‌ నుంచి వచ్చిన వరద నీరు బయటికి పంపలేక నిర్దాక్షిణ్యంగా తన ఒడిలో సేద తీరుతున్న రాజోళి గ్రామాన్ని క్షమించండంటూ ముంచెత్తేసింది. ప్రాణ నష్టం అంతగా లేకున్నా డ్యాం తెగి ఊరుమీద పడ్డ తుంగభద్ర తన మన పేద ధనిక వర్గ వర్ణ కుల విభేదాలు లేకుండా అందరిని సమానంగా చూసింది. ఫలితం గూడు చెదిరింది. మగ్గం విరిగింది. ఆధారమైన దారం తెగింది. భవిష్యత్తు ఆగమ్య గోచరంగా మారింది.</p>
<p>నిన్నటి వరకు బతుకు జీవుడా అన్న చందాన ఉన్న జీవితాలు నేడు కకావికలమై గుట్టకొకరు, గట్టుకొకరు, చెట్టు నీడ కొకరు అందిన సామాన్లు తీసుకొని బయలు దేరారు. రాజోళిలో ఇప్పుడు మగ్గాల శబ్దాలు ఆగిపోయాయి. నేతన్నల హృదయాలు పగిలిపోయాయి. ప్రపంచానికి బట్టలందించే నేతన్నలు నేడు దాతలందించిన పాత బట్ట లు మూటల్లో వెతుక్కొని కొలతలు చేసుకొని వేసుకుంటున్నారు. ఎవరేమైనా బయటి నుంచి ఏదైనా ఇస్తారేమోనని రచ్చకట్ట దగ్గర వచ్చిపోయే వాహనాల వెంబడి ఆశగా ఎదురు చూస్తూ రోజులు గడుపుతున్నారు.</p>
<p>ఇంటి పరిస్థితి చూస్తే పగిలిపోతుంది. జీవనం అందించిన మగ్గం నిర్జీవంగా బురదలో కూరుకొనిపోయింది. కూలిన మిద్దెలు కాలిన కడుపులు కళ్ళలో సుళ్లు తిరుగుతున్న నీళ్లు ఇవన్ని చూసి చూసి మన సు నిబ్బరపరుచుకున్నారు. ఇప్పుడిప్పుడే తేరుకుంటున్నారు. అటు ఇటు తిరుగుతున్నారు. చాలా మంది వస్తున్నారు. వారికి తోచిన సహాయం ఇచ్చి వెళుతున్నారు. ఊరు జాతరను తలపిస్తుంది. జాతర వెనుక నరక యాతన దాగి ఉంది. ఈ గ్రామంలో దాదాపు 1200 పైచిలుకు కుటుంబాలు నేతపై ఆధారపడి ఉన్నాయి. వీరి సంవత్సర ఆదాయము 36 వేల నుంచి 40 వేల రూపాయలు సిల్క్‌ నేసే వారికి, 24 వేల నుంచి 30 వేల రూపాయల వర కు కాటన్‌ నేసే వారికి వస్తుండే ది.</p>
<p>ఒక ఇంట్లో ఇద్దరు భార్య, భర్త కష్టపడితే ఒక మగ్గానికి వచ్చే ఆదాయం. వీరికి ఇదే జీవనోపాధి. అన్ని చోట్ల ఉన్నట్టు వీరికి ఇది ఒక్కటే జీవనోపాధి. వ్యవసాయం కాని ఇతర ఉపాధి మార్గాలు శూన్యం అని చెప్పవచ్చు. దీనికి తోడు వీరికి పెట్టుబడి, మార్కెట్‌ ఒక పెద్ద సమస్యలు. ఈ సమస్యలను అదునుగా చేసుకుని వీరిలో నుంచే కొంత ఆర్థిక పరిస్థితి మెరుగ్గా ఉన్న వ్యక్తులు మధ్య వర్తులుగా మారి కొంత మందికి మాల్‌ ఇచ్చి నేయించుకుంటారు. ఈ మధ్య వ్యక్తుల్లో రెండు రకాలు. కొంత మంది నేరుగా మార్కెట్‌ చేస్తే ఇంకొందరు హోల్‌సేల్‌కు షాపులకు అందిస్తుంటారు.</p>
<p>నేత కార్మికులను చూస్తే కొంత వారి సొంత మగ్గాలు ఉండి షావుకారితో మాల్‌ తెచ్చుకొని అతనికే ఇవ్వడం దానికి అతనికి చీరకు కొంత ముట్ట చెబుతుంటారు. రెండవ రకం మగ్గాలు వారి సొంతం కావు ఎవరైతే మధ్యవర్తి ఉంటా రో అతనే మగ్గాలు పెట్టి కూలి నేతన్నతో నేయిస్తుంటారు. అంటే కూలి నేతన్న. మూడవ రకం నేతన్న మగ్గం. మాల్‌ సొంతంగా ఉండి నేరు గా షాప్‌కు గాని లేదా మధ్యవర్తికి గాని ఇస్తుంటారు. వీరు కొంచెం మేలుగా జీవిస్తుంటారు. వీరిలో ఉన్న నైపుణ్యాలను పెట్టుబడిని బట్టి వారు పై నాలుగు రకాలుగా విడగొట్టవచ్చు.</p>
<p>ఒకటి కూలి నేతన్న. రెండు మధ్యవర్తులకు నేసే వారు. మూడవిది సొంతంగా చేసేవారు. నాలుగు మాస్టర్‌ వీవర్స్‌ (వ్యాపారం చేసేవారు). వరద తాకిడికి కూలిన మగ్గాల సంఖ్య దాదాపు 2000లకు పై చిలుకే ఉంటుంది. జిల్లా నుంచి అధికారులు గ్రామానికి వెళ్ళి దాదా పు 13 కోట్ల రూపాయల నష్టంగా అంచనా వేశారు. ఇందులో మగ్గా లు, వాటిపై ఉన్న మాల్‌ (12 నుంచి 15 వేల రూపాయలు మగ్గానికి, 9నుంచి 10 వేల రూపాయలు మాల్‌కు) సహకార సంఘంలో ఉన్న సరుకులు కలిపి అంచనా వేయడం జరిగింది. తాత్కాలికంగా రకరకాల రిలీఫ్‌ మెటీరియల్‌తో ఆదుకోవడం జరుగుతుంది. దీంతో పాటు దీర్ఘకాలికంగా శాశ్వతమైన నష్ట నివారణ చర్యలు చేపట్టాల్సిన అవసరముంది.</p>
<p>రాజోళి నేతన్నలు ఇప్పుడు సర్వస్వం కోల్పోయారు. ఇల్లు కట్టుకోవడానికి చాలా సమయం పట్టవచ్చు. కాబట్టి ప్రస్తుతానికి తాత్కాలిక షెడ్లు కల్పించి మగ్గాలు వాటిపైకి మాల్‌ అందిస్తే నేత వేసుకొంటారు. శాశ్వతమైన పునరావాసం వైపు వారిని తీసుకెళ్ళవచ్చు. ప్రభుత్వం వీరిని ఆదుకోవడానికి యుద్ధప్రాతిపదికన వీరికి తాత్కాలిక షెడ్లు కల్పిస్తూ మగ్గాలు ఇవ్వాలి. మగ్గాలపై మాల్‌ కొనుగోలు కు రుణసదుపాయం కల్పించడం, వీరికి కనీ సం మూడు నెలలకు సరిపడే రేషన్‌ ఇవ్వాలి. శాశ్వత ప్రణాళికలో భాగంగా ఇల్లు, వర్క్‌ షెడ్‌ నిర్మాణం చేపట్టాలి. చేనేతపై పని చేస్తున్న ఇతర సంస్థలతో కలిసి సంపూర్ణమైన శాశ్వత పునరావాసం, జీవనోపాదులను మెరుగుపరిచే ప్రణాళికలు తయారు చేయడం.ప్రభుత్వం/ఇతర సంస్థలు రాజోళి చేనేతకు విస్తృత ప్రచారం కల్పించడం.</p>
<p>రకరకాలైన ప్రభుత్వ/ప్రైవేట్‌ సంస్థలు స్వచ్ఛంద సంస్థలు సమన్వయం చేసుకొని సంపూర్ణ ప్రణాళిక ఎవరెవరు ఏం సహాయం చేయగలరన్నది జిల్లా స్థాయిలో నిర్ణయం తీసుకోవాలి. &#8216;మూలుగుతున్న నక్కపై తాటికాయ పడ్డట్టు&#8217; దీన స్థితుల్లో ఉన్న నేతన్నలు వరదలలో మునిగి ఉన్నారు. అందరు వారి శాశ్వత పరిష్కారాల గురించి ఆలోచించి ప్రజల సహకారంతో ప్రణాళికలు అమ లు చేస్తే కనీసం పూర్వ స్థితికి తీసుకొని రావచ్చు. ఇప్పుడున్న శాస్త్ర సాంకేతిక పరిజ్ఞానాన్ని ఉపయోగించుకొని వాటిని కావల్సిన స్థాయిలో వాడుకొని కొత్త జీవితాన్ని ప్రారంభించడానికి అందరం సహకరిద్దాం.</p>
<p>-వి. మురళీధర్‌<br />
ఫ్రెండ్స్‌ ఆఫ్‌ పాలమూరు</p>
<p>source : aandhrajyothy, 29 Oct 2009</p>
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		<title>250 mothers will die of childbirth in India today</title>
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<p>1975 blockbuster Deewar with just four words: &#8220;Mere paas maa hai&#8221;. Being a mother is good, great and glorious in mythology, cinema and in the popular psyche in India. Sadly, in real life, motherhood is a hazardous experience in many parts of the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;No Tally of the Anguish: Accountability in maternal healthcare in India&#8221;, a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based international NGO, is the latest reminder of the paradox of being a mother in India. We deify motherhood but do not do enough to save mothers.</p>
<p>&#8220;For an emerging global economic power famous for its medical prowess, India continues to have unacceptably high maternal mortality levels. In 2005, the last year for which international data is available, India&#8217;s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) was 16 times that of Russia, 10 times that of China, and four times higher than in Brazil,&#8221; the 150-page report observes.</p>
<p>Some more damning figures: Of every 70 Indian girls who reach reproductive age, one will eventually die because of pregnancy, childbirth or unsafe abortion, compared to one in 7,300 in the developed world. More will suffer from preventable injuries, infections and disabilities, often serious and lasting a lifetime, due to failures in maternal care.<br />
Indeed, India contributes a little under a fourth of the world&#8217;s maternal mortality.</p>
<p>Given all these disturbing numbers, why do not we hear more about maternal deaths? The short answer: because the magnitude of the problem is not recognised and the life stories of the dead women remain untold. Deaths due to conflicts, disasters or terrorism instantly grab public attention, become talking points, pressuring politicians and policymakers towards action. Most maternal deaths, in contrast, are deaths due to neglect, and remain ill-monitored.<br />
Medical records typically capture the immediate, biological causes of maternal deaths. What gets left out are the personal, familial, socio-cultural and environmental factors contributing to these deaths. The key underlying reason behind a maternal death in India is not always lack of money. The brutal truth, as the HRW report notes, is that generally speaking, maternal mortality is high where women&#8217;s overall status is low, and public health systems are poor. It is the low status of women which leads to the low priority accorded to her health.</p>
<p>Early marriage, women&#8217;s neglect of their reproductive health, inability to decide when and where to seek medical help, widespread malnutrition, lack of education, awareness, domestic violence and poor access to quality healthcare, including emergency obstetric services are some of the all too familiar factors which contribute to tens of thousands of maternal deaths.</p>
<p>A telling indicator: In rural India, even the desperately poor spend months planning every detail of a family wedding.<br />
The birth of a child, in stark contrast, is considered a routine affair, requiring minimal preparation and expenditure. Neglect during pregnancy and childbirth claims the lives of around 100,000 women across the country every year. Most such deaths can be averted but for the &#8220;three delays&#8221; &#8212; delay in decision to seek care, delay in reaching the appropriate health facility and delay in receiving care once inside a hospital.</p>
<p>Within India, there are also huge disparities. National averages camouflage sharp incountry variations in maternal mortality and morbidity. Northern India, made up of the so-called eight &#8220;Empowered Action Group&#8221; states, along with Assam, have the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. At 440 maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births, Uttar Pradesh reports the second highest MMR (maternal mortality ratio) in the country. This is about 1.7 times the estimated national MMR and more than three times that of states like Tamil Nadu in south India.</p>
<p>Many of the insights in the HRW report are familiar to Indians working in public health. India&#8217;s flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) seeks to address the twin challenges of maternal and child survival. Since its launch in 2005, the NRHM has pumped in huge sums of money to improve public health systems and reduce maternal and infant mortality. Recent data suggests that it has made some difference in parts of the country. All-India figures show a decline in maternal deaths between 2003 to 2006.</p>
<p>However, the initiatives will not produce the intended outcomes unless there is strict monitoring and healthcare system accountability, as the HRW report correctly stresses. We also need timely investigations into maternal deaths.</p>
<p>Unicef, for example, has piloted a verbal autopsy tool called Maternal and Perinatal Death Inquiry and Response, which involves communities. Two years ago, while visiting districts across the country where this was being implemented, I saw promising signs. Trained health and community workers and NGO field staff visited families where a maternal death has taken place with a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire is a tool to facilitate a process of raising awareness, of getting people concerned and involved about issues impacting a mother&#8217;s health and make them more knowledgeable about how they can do something about them. In several instances, communities had come forward with local solutions to critical issues like referral transport during obstetric emergencies. Saving mothers is not rocket science, and certainly within the capacity of a country whose lunar programme just celebrated its triumphant discovery of water at the moon. What is needed is a determined focus on the specific cracks through which so many women fall. In the Indian context, this means paying attention to not only the disparities between different states and regions but also the significant differences in utilisation of maternal health care within states, districts and cities.</p>
<p>Rural women, the urban poor, and women in geographically-remote areas report poorer utilisation of maternal healthcare services than the middle class in urban areas. Pregnant women belonging to dalit and tribal communities use maternal health services less than women belonging to upper castes. Maternal deaths continue in India because the women who die are not those we socialise with and their rights are not given the same value as our rights. India has the resources, tools and technical expertise to save its mothers and its children. It should do so not only because of what Human Rights Watch or any other organisation says, but because it is the right thing to do. It will be a critical step in making the idea of India more attractive.</p>
<p>PATRALEKHA CHATTERJEE writes on contemporary development issues, and can be contacted at<br />
<a href="http://carped.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#">patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com </a></p>
<p>Source : Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad 23 Oct 2009</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists attribute the extreme climate patterns in the state this year to climate change. This is just the beginning, they warn. &#8211; U.Sudhakar Reddy
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Scientists attribute the extreme climate patterns in the state this year to climate change. This is just the beginning, they warn. &#8211; U.Sudhakar Reddy</strong></p>
<p>Even as India and other countries quibble about how to handle climate change and who should cut what percentage of carbon emissions, the damaging effects of global warming are being felt right in our own backyard.<span id="more-596"></span></p>
<p>Scientists attribute the extreme climate patterns in Andhra Pradesh this year -the worst drought in 50 years followed by catastrophic floods that can happen once in 10,000 years -to climate change.<a rel="attachment wp-att-597" href="http://carped.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/ap-victim-of-climate-change/untitled-dc-23-jpeg/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-597" title="untitled dc 23 jpeg" src="http://carped.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/untitled-dc-23-jpeg.jpg?w=460&#038;h=321" alt="untitled dc 23 jpeg" width="460" height="321" /></a></p>
<p>The Krishna, Tungabhadra, Handri and Kundu rivers flooded and devastated several districts along the rivers&#8217; courses killing hundreds of people and destroying lakhs of acres of crops, submerging famous temples and inflicting losses of more than Rs 12,000 crore.</p>
<p>Even now, temperatures are soaring in October when there should be a chill in the air. Weather experts say the heavy rains within just a few days in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka was due to low pressure in the Bay of Bengal.</p>
<p>Rising levels of vehicular and industrial emissions and eroding of green cover combine to adversely impact the climate. It results in fewer rainy days but the intensity of the rainfall increases on any given rainy day, and this in turn causes floods.</p>
<p>According to Mr K. Krishna Kumar of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, &#8220;Some changes are taking place in the character of the monsoon. There is substantial decline in monsoon depressions and increase in low pressure systems. All Indian Mean temperatures show an increasing trend of 0.51 degrees Centigrade per 100 years with an accelerated warming of 0.21 degrees Centigrade per 10 years after 1970.&#8221; Mr Kumar says the intensity of storms will be higher by 10 per cent.</p>
<p>In 2000, Hyderabad witnessed 350 mm rainfall in a day when the yearly average is 700mm. Professor B. V.<br />
Subba Rao of the Centre for Resource Education says, &#8220;The rainfall that needs to be distributed throughout the year, comes in a day, flooding the city. The lakes have no capacity to hold this water and it results in flooding of colonies leading to loss of lives and property.&#8221;</p>
<p>He says there is no proper research and documentation done on the extreme weather patterns and impacts at the local level. Hyderabad is not prepared for even 10mm rainfall and the disaster preparedness and mitigation is sub-standard.</p>
<p>He suggests that instead of planning to increase the capacity of Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar reservoirs, the government should increase the capacity of the lakes in catchment area and strengthen the bunds.</p>
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<p>Source : Deccan Chronicle 23 Oct 2009</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[తుంగభద్రలో అనూహ్యమైన వరద వచ్చినందువల్ల, సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట నిర్మాణంలో గతంలో జరిగిన అవకతవకల వల్ల, ప్రస్తుతం ఆ ఆనకట్ట తెగిపోయినందువల్ల ఆ రాతిగోడమీది నుంచి వరద ఊళ్లోకి ప్రవేశించింది. అసలు సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట నిర్మాణం దగ్గరి నుంచీ ఊళ్లోకి ప్రవేశించిన బురదను ఎత్తిపోయడం దాకా ప్రభుత్వ, అధికార యంత్రాంగం లోపాలు, నిర్లక్ష్యాలు, అక్రమాలు ఎన్నో ఉన్నాయి. 
తుంగభద్ర- కృష్ణ వరద బీభత్సంలో కకావికలైన ప్రజా జీవనానికి సహాయ సహకారాలు అందించడానికి, దెబ్బతిన్న వేలాది బాధిత కుటుంబాలను ఆదుకోవడానికి [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carped.wordpress.com&blog=440870&post=554&subd=carped&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>తుంగభద్రలో అనూహ్యమైన వరద వచ్చినందువల్ల, సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట నిర్మాణంలో గతంలో జరిగిన అవకతవకల వల్ల, ప్రస్తుతం ఆ ఆనకట్ట తెగిపోయినందువల్ల ఆ రాతిగోడమీది నుంచి వరద ఊళ్లోకి ప్రవేశించింది. అసలు సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట నిర్మాణం దగ్గరి నుంచీ ఊళ్లోకి ప్రవేశించిన బురదను ఎత్తిపోయడం దాకా ప్రభుత్వ, అధికార యంత్రాంగం లోపాలు, నిర్లక్ష్యాలు, అక్రమాలు ఎన్నో ఉన్నాయి. <span id="more-554"></span></strong></p>
<p>తుంగభద్ర- కృష్ణ వరద బీభత్సంలో కకావికలైన ప్రజా జీవనానికి సహాయ సహకారాలు అందించడానికి, దెబ్బతిన్న వేలాది బాధిత కుటుంబాలను ఆదుకోవడానికి సమాజమంతా పెద్ద ఎత్తున కదులుతున్నట్టు, ప్రభుత్వ, ప్రభుత్వేతర సంస్థలన్నీ సహాయ, పునరావాస కార్యక్రమాలలో తలమునకలు గా ఉన్నట్టు ఒక అభిప్రాయం చలామణీలోకి వచ్చిం ది. పనిచేసే వారినెవరినీ విమర్శించనక్కరలేదేమో! సహాయ, పునరావాస చర్యలు పెద్ద ఎత్తునే జరుగుతున్నమాట, సామూహిక ఔదార్యం వ్యక్తమవుతున్న మాట నిజమేనేమో! కాని ప్రజల విషాదం, దైన్యం, దిగ్భ్రాంతి, సహాయం కోసం ఎదురుచూపు మాత్రం మొదటి రోజున ఎట్లా ఉండి ఉంటాయో అట్లాగే ఉన్నాయి.</p>
<p>జల ప్రళయం ఎగసిపడి నిండా రెండువారాలు గడిచిన తర్వాత కూడా ఆ దుస్థితి ఏమీ మారలేదని మహబూబ్‌నగర్‌ జిల్లా వడ్డేపల్లి మండలం రాజోళి గ్రామ శిథిలాలను, అదే జిల్లా అలంపురం పట్టణ వీధులను పైపైన చూసినా అర్థమవుతుంది. సుంకేశు ల ఆనకట్ట తెగిపోయి వరద తీసిందేమో గాని, రాజోళిలో కన్నీటి వరద ఇంకా ఆగలేదు. శ్రీశైలం నుంచి వరద నీరు కిందికి పంపినందువల్ల పైన అలంపురం లో తుంగభద్రలో నీళ్లు కనబడడం లేదేమోగాని రక్షణకు కట్టిన రాతి కట్టమీది నుంచి తుంగభద్ర దూకి ధ్వంసమైన ఇళ్లూ జీవితాలూ జీవనోపాధులూ ఇంకా ఆ బీభత్సాన్ని అనుభవిస్తూనే, ప్రకటిస్తూనే ఉన్నాయి.</p>
<p>మన అధికార వ్యవస్థలకు తోటి మనుషుల పట్ల కనీస గౌరవం లేదని చెప్పడానికి నిదర్శనంగా రెండు ఊళ్లలోనూ భరించరాని దుర్గంధం వ్యాపించి ఉంది. కనీసం ఆరేడు అంగుళాల నుంచి గరిష్ఠంగా రెండు మూడు అడుగుల మేర పేరుకుపోయిన ఒండ్రుమట్టి లో, బురదలో చిక్కుకున్న జీవజాతుల కళేబరాలు కుళ్లిన వాసన, ఆహార పదార్థాలు కుళ్లిన వాసన, మురి కి కాలువలు రోడ్ల బురద కలగలిసిపోయి ముక్కులు బద్దలు చేసే నీచు వాసన. చూడడానికి వెళ్లిన వాళ్లు కొన్ని గంటల కోసమో, నిమిషాల కోసమో అది భరించలేక ముక్కులకు గుడ్డలు అడ్డం పెట్టుకుని, వాంతు లు చేసుకుంటూ ఉంటే, నిస్సహాయులైన రాజోళి ప్రజలు, అంతకన్నా ఎక్కువగా అలంపురం ప్రజలు ఆ దుర్వాసనలో తిరుగుతున్నారు. వండుకుని తింటున్నారు.</p>
<p>నిత్యజీవిత కార్యక్రమాల్లో పాలుపంచుకుంటున్నారు. ఎంత దుర్మార్గమైన లోకం ఇది?! రెండు వారా లు గడిచినా కనీసం బురద శుభ్రం చేయడానికి శక్తి చాలని, మనసుపోని అధికార యంత్రాంగం ఏ బాధ్యతలు నిర్వహిస్తున్నట్టు? నాయకులకు రక్షణ కవచంగా నిలబడే వందలాది మంది ప్రజల ఆందోళనలను అణచడానికి సర్వశక్తి సాధనాలతో తరలివచ్చే వేలాదిమంది &#8216;ప్రజా సేవకుల&#8217; వ్యవస్థ కొన్ని గ్రామాల్లో బుర ద ఎత్తించడం లాంటి చిన్న పని చేయడానికి వారాల తరబడి తీసుకుంటోంది.</p>
<p>ఉద్యమకారులను అణచడానికి వేలాది మందిని హుటాహుటిన క్షణాల మీద పంపించే ప్రభుత్వం ఒక్కొక్క గ్రామంలో నుంచి కొన్ని వందల టన్నుల బురదను తొలగించి, కడిగి, శుభ్రం చేసి, రోగాలకు నిలయం కాకుండా చేయడానికి కనీస చర్యలు కూడా చేపట్టలేదు. ఎవరి ఇంట్లో బురద వాళ్లే ఎత్తేసుకుంటారులే, ప్రకృతే శుభ్రం చేస్తుందిలే అన్న ట్టు ఉపేక్షిస్తోంది.</p>
<p>ఎర్త్‌ మూవర్లు, బుల్డోజర్లు వచ్చా యి గాని కేవలం ప్రభుత్వ వాహనాలు, సందర్శకుల వాహనాలు తిరగడానికి వీలైనంత మట్టుకు రోడ్లమీద బురదను పక్కకు నెట్టాయి. ఇప్పుడు రోడ్డుకు రెండు పక్కలా దుర్గంధపు కుప్పలు. ఆ దుర్వాసన మహా ఘనత వహించిన సందర్శకులను చికాకు పెట్టకుండా ఆ కుప్పల మీద డిడిటి, క్లోరిన్‌ చల్లితే చాలునని మాత్రం అధికారగణం అనుకున్నట్టుంది. రెండు గాఢమైన వాసనలు కలిసి దుర్భరమైన వాతావరణం.</p>
<p>దుర్వాసన ఒక పక్కనైతే, మనిషి పట్ల గౌరవం లేని మనుషులందరినీ బిచ్చగాళ్లుగా చూసే ప్రభుత్వాధికారుల, రాజకీయ నాయకుల, సందర్శకుల వైఖరి. రెండు వారాలుగా నిస్సహాయతలో మగ్గిపోయి, వాహనం కనబడితే చాలు ఏదో ఇవ్వడానికి ఎవరో వచ్చారని, ఈ వేటలో వెనుకబడితే ఆ అందేదేదో అందదని దయనీయమైన ఆదుర్దా మరొక పక్కన.</p>
<p>నిన్నటి వరకూ తన శ్రమ మీద తాను ఆధారపడుతూ, ఆత్మగౌరవంతో బతికిన మనిషి ఇవాళ ఇంత దుర్భరమైన స్థితిలోకి జారిపోతే, కనీస గౌరవం కూడా లేకుండా తోటి మనుషులూ, అధికార వ్యవస్థలూ ఎలా పనిచేస్తున్నాయో చూస్తే ఆపుకోలేని దుఃఖం కలిగింది. మనిషి ఇంత దీనంగా ఉండవలసిన పరిస్థితి ఎందువల్ల తలెత్తింది? ఇంకా ఘోరం దారి పొడవునా గుట్టలుగుట్టలుగా పారవేసిన పాతబట్టలు. గ్రహీతలకు అవసరమైనవి, గౌరవప్రదమైనవి ఇస్తున్నామో లేదో చూడకుండా సహాయం పేరుమీద ప్రకటితమైన ఔదార్యం నిజం గా బాధితులకు పనికిరాలేదు. లేదా బాధితులకు అవసరమైనవి అందలేదు. ఫలితం పాతబట్టలు, చాలీచాలని బట్టలు అందిన వాళ్లందరూ అక్కడికక్కడే పారేసిపోయారు.</p>
<p>రాజోళి జనాభా 2001 జనగణన ప్రకారం 11, 617. బహుశా ప్రస్తుతం పదిహేనువేలు కావచ్చు. సరిగ్గా సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట కింద ఉండే ఈ గ్రామం ఆ ఆనకట్ట తెగి మీద పడడంతో హతాశురాలైంది. ఆ ఆనకట్ట రాత్రిపూట తెగి ఉంటే, సరిగ్గా ముప్ఫై ఏళ్ల కింద గుజరాత్‌లో ఆనకట్ట తెగి మోర్వీ పట్టణంలో వేలాది మంది మనుషులు జల సమాధి అయిపోయినట్టు అయి ఉండేది. &#8216;అలా జరిగినా బాగుండును, మాకూ ఈ బాధ తప్పేది, మీకూ ఈ బాధ తప్పేది&#8217; అని ఒక చేనేత కార్మికుడు కన్నీళ్లింకిపోయిన గొంతుతో, సమాజం తలదించుకోవలసిన మాట అన్నాడంటే ఆ ఊరు ఎంత దుఃఖాన్ని చవిచూసి ఉంటుంది.</p>
<p>ఆ ఊరిలో ఇళ్లన్నీ నేలమట్టమైపోయా యి. గోడలు గట్టిగా నిలిచి ఉన్న చోట కూడా ఇళ్లలో రెండడుగుల మేర బురద నిండి నివాసయోగ్యం కాకుండాపోయాయి. అక్కడి నుంచి రెండు కిలోమీటర్ల దూరంలో కాస్త మెరకగా ఉన్నచోట పునరావాసం కల్పించవచ్చు గాని జీవనోపాధి కల్పించడం అత్యవసరమైన పెద్ద పని.</p>
<p>ఆ గ్రామంలో కనీసం మూడువేల మగ్గాలు పని చేస్తున్నాయని ఒక అంచనా. ఆ మూడువేల మగ్గాలు ఇవాళ విరిగిపోయి ఉన్నాయి. వేలాది కుటుంబాల జీవనాధారం ధ్వంసమైపోయింది. ఒక్క పద్మశాలి కుటుంబాలు మాత్రమే కాదు, రాజోళిలో ముస్లింలు, కురబ, చాకలి, కమ్మరి వంటి ఇతర కులాల వాళ్లు కూడా నేతపనిలో ఉన్నారు. గద్వాల వంటి ప్రఖ్యాత నేత వస్త్రాల మార్కెట్లకు తమ ఉత్పత్తులు అందిస్తున్నారు. ఒక మగ్గం పునర్నిర్మించాలంటే కనీసం అరవై వేల నుంచి లక్ష రూపాయలు అవసరమవుతుంది.</p>
<p>సహాయ పునరావాస కార్యక్రమాలలో ఈ జీవనోపా ధి నష్టం లెక్కకే రావడం లేదు. చేనేత సహకార సంఘం కార్యాలయంలో ఉన్న కోటి రూపాయలకు పైగా విలువ చేసే వస్త్రాలు, నూలు నాశనమైపోయా యి. ఆ కార్యాలయంలో నుంచి బురద ఎత్తివేయడానికి అధికార యంత్రాంగం ఏమీ చేయలేదు. ఎంత కూలి ఇచ్చినా ఆ దుర్గంధపూరితమైన బురద ఎత్తిపోయడానికి ఎవరూ దొరకక, చేనేత కార్మికులు, ఆ కార్యాలయ ఉద్యోగులు పారిశుధ్య కార్మికుల్లా పని చేస్తున్నారు.<br />
ఇక అలంపురంలో ఎక్కడ చూస్తే అక్కడ సహాయ శిబిరాలు, బృందాలు, అధికార గణం కనబడుతున్నా రు గాని, అంతకన్న మించిన దుర్వాసన. పరిశుభ్రమై న, గౌరవప్రదమైన వాతావరణం ముందు కల్పించాలనే కనీస స్పృహ కొరవడిన స్థితి.</p>
<p>అసలు ఆ ఊరే శ్రీశైలం జలాశయంలో ముంపుకు గురవుతుందని అనుకున్నప్పుడు, ప్రాచీన ఆలయాలను, ఊరిని రక్షించడానికి పెద్ద రాతిగోడ కట్టారు. తుంగభద్రలో అనూహ్యమైన వరద వచ్చినందువల్ల, సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట నిర్మాణంలో గతంలో జరిగిన అవకతవకల వల్ల, ప్రస్తుతం ఆ ఆనకట్ట తెగిపోయినందువల్ల ఆ రాతిగోడమీది నుంచి వరద ఊళ్లోకి ప్రవేశించింది. అసలు సుంకేశుల ఆనకట్ట నిర్మాణం దగ్గరి నుంచీ ఊళ్లోకి ప్రవేశించిన బురదను ఎత్తిపోయడం దాకా ప్రభుత్వ, అధికార యంత్రాంగం లోపాలు, నిర్లక్ష్యాలు, అక్రమా లు ఎన్నో ఉన్నాయి. ఎప్పటి బురద ఇది? ఎంత కడిగితే తరుగుతుంది ఇది?</p>
<p>-ఎన్‌. వేణుగోపాల్‌</p>
<p>source : aandhrajyothy 22 Oct 2009</p>
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		<title>Floods may trigger school dropouts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BYE, BYE SCHOOL? Schools Still In Badly Damaged State, Say NGOs
The recent floods may trigger huge school dropouts particularly among poorer sections as 484 schools have suffered severe damage affecting 82,000 students in Kurnool, Mahbubnagar and Krishna districts. The students have lost books, uniforms, records, certificates and everything connected to their studies, according to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carped.wordpress.com&blog=440870&post=549&subd=carped&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><strong>The recent floods may trigger huge school dropouts particularly among poorer sections as 484 schools have suffered severe damage affecting 82,000 students in Kurnool, Mahbubnagar and Krishna districts. The students have lost books, uniforms, records, certificates and everything connected to their studies,</strong> according to a survey conducted by NGOs. “Books are dearer to the children. Poor families cannot afford to buy new set of books and this could lead to students dropping out from schools particularly the girl child,” said R Venkata Reddy, national coordinator of the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF) set up by Ramon Magsaysay awardee professor Shanta Sinha. Reddy, who led teams that surveyed the condition of schools and health of the students in the affected districts said, many of the schools were not ready to occupy even though they are scheduled to reopen on Monday.<span id="more-549"></span></p>
<p>“We observed the psychology of children and the parents in 21 schools in Kurnool district. Students and their parents feel that they are in no position to take additional burden of buying new set of books and uniforms as they are already undergoing trauma having lost everything they had.”</p>
<p>As of now, it appears that helping the schools and children is a non-priority issue for government too. “The distribution of a school-kit containing everything needed for a student alone can reassure the children and enable them to go back to school,” Reddy felt. But the district officials say text books are not available for distribution, even though they are hopeful of getting note books from donors. Students in Kurnool district are a confused lot. N R Chaitra, a final year B Sc student from St Joseph College lost all certificates including her records.</p>
<p>She was not sure of going to college immediately after the reopening as she cannot enter class with empty hands. Like Chaitra, many children are unlikely to turn up at schools next Monday. Parents are worried about the safety of the old buildings of government schools.</p>
<p>Some schools like Prakasam memorial school in Kurnool have not been opened even for cleaning. It will take another 10 days to make these buildings fit to run schools, said Reddy. All the 21 schools which MVF visited are not in good shape.</p>
<p>According to B Ramalingam, district educational officer (DEO), cleaning of schools was in full swing. “We have asked the teachers to spend money from their pockets. Later the government will reimburse the amount,” the DEO said. As for the issuing of duplicate SSC certificates, the DEO said they are planning to set up counters in every mandal to receive the complaints. After receiving the complaints, steps will be taken to issue duplicate certificates, said the DEO.</p>
<p>Source : Times News Network, The Times of India, Hyderabad 21 Oct 2009</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent floods in the state have not only resulted in destruction of life and property, they have also hit the Gadwal sari industry hard. &#8211; Saswati Mukherjee
Hyderabad, Oct. 19: The severe flooding in the state which has destroyed homes, crops, livelihoods and businesses has claimed an unusual victim: the famous Gadwal sari.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p id="p-tag"><strong>Recent floods in the state have not only resulted in destruction of life and property, they have also hit the Gadwal sari industry hard.</strong> &#8211; <em>Saswati Mukherjee</em></p>
<p>Hyderabad, Oct. 19: The severe flooding in the state which has destroyed homes, crops, livelihoods and businesses has claimed an unusual victim: the famous Gadwal sari.<span id="more-541"></span></p>
<p id="p-tag">The usual annual turnover of the Gadwal sari industry is Rs 2 crore, but this year there may be a drop of at least 40 per cent in production.</p>
<p id="p-tag">The floods have washed away four of the 18 villages in Gadwal from where most of the weavers hail.</p>
<p id="p-tag">Also, with people spending less and toning down the celebrations this year, the saris are likely to find fewer takers.</p>
<p id="p-tag">The Gadwal sari industry does brisk business throughout the year. But it really picks up during the festive season.</p>
<p id="p-tag">This time, though, dealers who get a supply of close to 25 lakh sari units from different weavers are expecting a 40 per cent dip in production and are expecting no more than 10 per cent profit.</p>
<p id="p-tag">“Usually, sales go up during the festive season and see a decline off season, but the average sales remain constant,” says Mr T. Vijayulu, president of the Handloom Weavers’ Cooperative Society, Gadwal.</p>
<p id="p-tag">There are about 25 sari dealers in the area named Krishna Reddy Bungalow in Gadwal. <a rel="attachment wp-att-543" href="http://carped.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/crisis-looms-over-gadwal-saris/gadwal-weavers/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-543" title="gadwal weavers" src="http://carped.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/gadwal-weavers.jpg?w=460&#038;h=412" alt="gadwal weavers" width="460" height="412" /></a></p>
<p id="p-tag">Some 60 per cent of those engaged in weaving the famous sari are women.</p>
<p id="p-tag">The weavers supply the saris to dealers or sahukars who deal directly with the customers and make the most profit.</p>
<p id="p-tag">“The labour charges have remained constant for the last so many years now. They must be revised at the earliest or else eating two square meals a day will soon be a challenge for us,” says Mr G. Srinivasulu, a weaver.</p>
<p id="p-tag">Dealers say the rates have been fixed after taking all factors into consideration. The weaver earns Rs 500-600 for every cotton sari, Rs 1,200 for a cotton-silk mix and Rs 1,500-1,800 for a silk sari.</p>
<p id="p-tag">The raw material is provided to the weavers by the dealers, but the weaver does everything else from dying it in the given colour to hand weaving the sari according to a computer generated design.</p>
<p id="p-tag">All this is covered under the above mentioned labour charge.</p>
<p id="p-tag">Some innovation is accepted. “We get to choose the colours of the sari if no particular preference is given to us. Based on different permutations and combinations, we come up with our own range of saris,” says Mr S. Sathyanarayan, a weaver who has 10 mouths to feed at home from his meagre income.</p>
<p id="p-tag">A weaver family has a maximum of six looms at home, and most of the work is done by family members. Each loom is manned by two people and usually husband and wife work together on a loom.</p>
<p id="p-tag">The average output is five saris in two months.</p>
<div id="divTitle"><strong>Younger generation not interested in weaving</strong></div>
<p><strong>&#8220;Today this profession is looked down upon. Added to that is the fact that the income generated is not too great.&#8221; &#8211; </strong>A. Daulapa weaver</p>
<div>The Gadwal sari may be a dying art. The industry has traditionally been family-based with children following their parents into the business for generations. But the younger generation of today is reluctant to continue the tradition.</div>
<p>&#8220;Today this profession is looked down upon. Added to that is the fact that the income generated is not too great,&#8221; says Mr A. Daulappa, a weaver in his late 40s who has two sons and a daughter. One son has finished school and assists his father in weaving saris, but he has definite plans to quit once he finds a good job.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will continue to stay here with my parents but cannot take up weaving as a profession,&#8221; says young Krishnaiah, Mr Daulappa&#8217;s son. Today, there are easier work opportunities: driving an autorickshaw, being a waiter at a hotel, tailoring, being a watchman or going into real estate. These have caught the fancy of the youth, who prefer them to the huge physical strain involved in hand-weaving.</p>
<p>Also the great traditional skill is not given the respect it deserves. Local people say that no family wants to give their daugh ter in marriage to a weaver.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even a farmer enjoys more respect than we do in society,&#8221; says Mr Sathya narayan, a weaver.</p>
<p>source : Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad 20 Oct 2009</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Displaced by floods, rajoli villagers fight for survival
90 % of 500-odd houses in Rajoli had collapsed,
Rajoli suffered a huge loss on account of damage to weavers’ units
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RAJOLI (Mahabubnagar dt.): Hundreds of poor families are literally on the road in this tiny village as they have pitched tents made of sarees after their houses collapsed following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carped.wordpress.com&blog=440870&post=581&subd=carped&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><em>Displaced by floods, rajoli villagers fight for survival<br />
90 % of 500-odd houses in Rajoli had collapsed,<br />
Rajoli suffered a huge loss on account of damage to weavers’ units<br />
</em>Rahul<br />
RAJOLI (Mahabubnagar dt.): Hundreds of poor families are literally on the road in this tiny village as they have pitched tents made of sarees after their houses collapsed following the floods ten days ago.<span id="more-581"></span></p>
<p>A bumpy drive to Rajoli from Shantinagar on a gravel topped road over 10 kms also saw a number of homeless</p>
<div id="attachment_582" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 355px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-582" href="http://carped.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ravaged-rajoli-villagers-struggle-to-survive/2009101454080401-the-hindu-14-oct-2009-4/"><img class="size-full wp-image-582" title="2009101454080401 the hindu 14 oct 2009" src="http://carped.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/2009101454080401-the-hindu-14-oct-20093.jpg?w=345&#038;h=224" alt="The aftermath: Villagers of Rajoli in Mahabubnagar district scrambling for relief material. – Photo P.V. SIVAKUMAR" width="345" height="224" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The aftermath: Villagers of Rajoli in Mahabubnagar district scrambling for relief material. – Photo P.V. SIVAKUMAR</p></div>
<p> families moving out from the former with their belongings in bullock carts and packed auto-rickshaws and tractors. A large number of others were sitting by the roadside helplessly while children greeted every passing vehicle with outstretched hands, seeking alms.</p>
<p>People both at the camp where the tents have come up and elsewhere on the road are being provided food and water by voluntary agencies but they are directly exposed to sun as the sarees which they have stuck out to sticks to take cover hardly offer them any relief. The camp mostly comprises Scheduled Caste people from Rajoli and Thummanapalle villages which were submerged by the water of Tungabhadra river, less than half-a-kilometre away.<br />
The water entered the villages after ripping open the earthen bund of Sunkesula barrage for nearly a kilometre.</p>
<p>There is chaos in Rajoli whenever vehicles drive into the village to drop food, clothes and water packets. There is a mad rush of people who try to snatch the packets from the hands of delivery boys. The crew of a mini-bus despatched by an organisation had a tough time in preventing the crowd from entering the vehicle on Monday. The problems of those who drove in an open-topped van with the food material shortly afterwards was worse.</p>
<p>The debris of houses that collapsed stare visitors to Rajoli where destruction to property is the highest in the district. Every other house was found falling here. The District Superintending Engineer of Housing Suresh told The Hindu that ninety per cent of the 500-odd houses in the village had collapsed. Only pucca houses stood up to the flooding while all the houses with mud and mortar were razed to ground. The village which is popular for handloom weaving also suffered a huge loss on account of damage to weavers’ units.</p>
<p>A stream ahead of the village is the source of water for people living in pucca houses to wash their clothes and utensils.<br />
Source : The Hindu, 14 Oct 2009</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>A few parts of Andhra Pradesh have experienced unprecedented floods havoc. Some of the affected areas have been neglected for a week as there was no access to the villages as they are submerged or the roads or totally cut off. And these villages are not only flooded and misery but also totally ignored by the society as there was no reporting of the situation in the media. Immediate response of the society to be a helping hand to the flood affected people reached only those areas where the media could reach and highlight the tragedy.</p>
<p>With the receding flood levels a few more villages came to light. CARPED team, representatives of Telangana Utsav Committee and friends have visited such villages in Mahbubnagar. The team visited Kutkunoor (Ieeza mandal), Thummilapally and Rajouli (Vaddepally mandal), Alampur of Mahbubnagar district for a needs assessment.<br />
Mahbubnagar is known for severe drought and large scale distress migration every year. Chronic drought induced migration made it legendary for migration of its inhabitants all over the country. The district never witnessed such devastating floods in 130 years.</p>
<p>Thousands of people have lost everything they had in just 2 days. They have become homeless, starving, lost their livelihoods. Agricultural land in Lakhs of hectares is eroded to 6 feet. Lands are filled with slush destroying the crops and their hopes of livelihood. There is no milk for infants and children nor sufficient drinking water. Thousands of weavers, artisans and people depending on weaving or small trade in these weaving centres or the farmers now have no clue of how to live from now.</p>
<p>Civil societies from all parts of the state have tried their best and still mobilizing the resources for the immediate relief. Govt. has also done in bits and pieces. Major contribution has been from the civil societies. Still much needs to be done.</p>
<p>How to make the lands fit for cultivation again? How the looms will start again to weave and providing wage to the weavers to feed their families? These are the questions that need to be answered now. It’s no more help of just some old clothes or a few kilos of rice that will make these people restart their lives.</p>
<p>School going children and college students have different set of problems. Their books and bags and uniforms etc are lost in the floods. Some have lost their certificates. Schools and Colleges have started functioning gain after the Dusserah festival. How do these school/ college students start attending the schools or colleges without books and clothes?</p>
<p>This Deepavali cannot be festival of lights for these people unless the problem is viewed beyond token relief assistance.</p>
<p>What is required is no doubt immediate help but also a real support to help them restart their livelihoods.<br />
Even the immediate relief required by the victims of flood:<br />
• Milk for infants and children<br />
• Drinking water / purification of water<br />
• Temporary shelter (hutments), common toilets<br />
• Groceries for one month (Food – rice, dal, oil, vegetables etc. and Kerosene)<br />
• stoves, utensils, lamps<br />
• blankets, bed sheets, towels, Clothes – minimum of 2 pairs for each victim<br />
• Soaps, detergent powder / cake<br />
• Medicines and medical camps, fogging in the flood affected areas<br />
• Volunteers to help in cleaning the slush, catching the snakes, collection and distribution of immediate relief packets / package by going to the houses, collecting the data of school going children by class (to issue duplicate certificates, books), business affected, mark the boundaries of agricultural land, to coordinate with all donors to collect relief assistance and distribute to the locals based on their needs.</p>
<p>Contact for details / assistance :<br />
M.Subhash Chandra<br />
Centre for Action Research and People’s Development (CARPED)<br />
Tel : 09246294565, Email : carpedindia@gmail.com www.carped.org</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 5,000 handloom weavers who lost their looms face mounting debts
G Arun Kumar &#124; TNN
Rajoli (Mahbubnagar): For the 5,000-odd weavers of this town, the last straw came in the form of nature’s fury like they have never seen before. In a matter of a few hours on that fateful October 2, the gushing waters destroyed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carped.wordpress.com&blog=440870&post=501&subd=carped&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Nearly 5,000 handloom weavers who lost their looms face mounting debts<br />
</strong>G Arun Kumar | TNN</p>
<p>Rajoli (Mahbubnagar): For the 5,000-odd weavers of this town, the last straw came in the form of nature’s fury like they have never seen before. In a matter of a few hours on that fateful October 2, the gushing waters destroyed their handlooms and homes and increased their debts many-fold.<span id="more-501"></span></p>
<p>“I cannot take this anymore, I want to die,” wailed 60-year-old Vanka Lakshmanna, whose three handlooms were washed away in the floods. This more or less sums up the morbidity that the floods left behind in the weavers of this mudstone house town just off the Raichur main road on the banks of the Tungabhadra river in Vaddapally mandal of district.</p>
<p>With their livelihood destroyed and forced to live on the streets, the weavers see no light at the end of the tunnel. Agnoor Babu had 8 Turling looms (where silk saris are woven) and two regular ones. All of them were destroyed or washed away in the gushing waters of the flood fury. “I have five daughters, the eldest of whom I got married six months ago. I have already incurred a debt of Rs 40,000. With no way to earn money, how am I going to feed me family, let alone marry off my other four daughters,” cried Agnoor Babu even as his family members tried to console him.</p>
<p>Savitramma, an old weaver woman, is still to come to grips with the reality post-floods. In a state of shell-shock, all she can do is stand next to her wrecked home and lament. “The atmosphere is so hellish that there is not a single family that has the courage to fight on. What can the state government do to give us back our lives,” asked weaver Bandi Krishna, who lost all of his four handlooms.</p>
<p>Even before the floods washed away their livelihoods, most of the weavers were in the debt range of Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000. “For you city folks, it might sound like a very small sum. But not for us. On an exceptionally good day, we tend to make Rs 100 a day and there are at least 4-5 mouths that each of us have to feed,” said Mohd Shabbir, a 17-year-old weaver who looked much withered for his age.</p>
<p>Since the floods, the weavers as well as the other residents of Rajoli have been having a tough time getting food and drinking water. On Tuesday, many of the residents were seen converging at a huge neem tree at the town centre which got submerged in the hope of fishing out some debris to build temporary shelters. “The old and the sick are not able to take it. Many of them are suffering from diarrhoea,” said Hanumanthu, a rescue worker.</p>
<p>Understandably, Rajoli’s deputy sarpanch Marlavedi Sekhar is a worried man. “The floods have washed away our lives, broken many families and decimated our meagre earnings. But the real tragedy that could unfold over the next few weeks is suicides by the weavers. I hope for once, the district administration takes preventive steps rather than pay compensation afterwards,” he said.</p>
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<p> <span style="text-align:justify;">source : Times of India 14 Oct 2009 </span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Clothes And Plentiful Of Rice, That’s All In The Name Of Relief
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Hyderabad: Has the devastating floods in the state not moved its citizenry enough to come out and contribute its best for relief work ? If similar disasters in other parts of the country stirred people and industry players into action, working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carped.wordpress.com&blog=440870&post=474&subd=carped&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>TIMES NEWS NETWORK</p>
<p>Hyderabad: Has the devastating floods in the state not moved its citizenry enough to come out and contribute its best for relief work ? If similar disasters in other parts of the country stirred people and industry players into action, working towards rebuilding what is lost, the flood-ravaged parts of Andhra Pradesh are getting just about old clothes and lots of rice. The generous donations to relief funds or concrete relief activities such as taking a team of volunteers to clear the waist-deep slush are conspicuously missing in this non-governmental disaster management.<span id="more-474"></span></p>
<p>While countless NGOs have jumped into the fray of relief activity, the direction they have taken is only adding chaos to confusion. Donations of money are hard to come by with social workers like V B J Chelikani Rao, who undertook flood relief activity in the city, pointing out that “people are willing to buy and send relief material but not willing to donate money’’. The little the NGOs are collecting is spent in buying stuff that they assume is needed by flood victims. “No medicines have been supplied to those in urgent need of it and people are instead being given kgs of foodgrain everyday, which is already in surplus,’’ says Zahid Qadri, secretary, AP relief coordination committee that is working in Kurnool and Mahbubnagar districts.</p>
<p>It is a different story that even Qadri’s initiative too revolves around food and clothes and not medicines or volunteers to clean up the mess since they have just not received any funds from a rather insensitive set of people who felt their goodwill act was limited to donating old clothes. Qadri lists out what all people need right now, which includes public toilets but says they are cash strapped to take up such relief work. “People are defecating on the streets now and there is an urgent need for these toilets but corporates, who can play a major role, are yet to wake up to the magnitude of the loss,’’ he says.</p>
<p>A severe crunch of helping hands from the various civil society groups, has left locals with no choice but to spend close to 14 hours everyday, cleaning their houses. “The old town of Kurnool is submerged in slush and garbage. What is needed is more people to clean the area, so that relief material can reach them,” said a volunteer.<br />
Locals in flood hit areas say most of these relief operations have only added to chaos as most NGOs are completely clueless about the requirements of the victims, clearly reflected in the garbage bins overflowing with food. What is worse is that just about a fraction of the flood-hit are receiving any relief, with those in the interior villages completely cut off.</p>
<p>Locals of Mahbubnagar say that more than 50 per cent of the relief is not reaching them. “Altogether there are about 400 villages that have been hit in the three districts. But almost 80-90 per cent of the relief material is being sent to Kurnool and some villages on the way, which comprises only 20 per cent of the total population affected by the floods,” says Mazhar Hussein, executive director, COVA. Even in Kurnool it is only the urban crowd that is eventually receiving some part of the relief.</p>
<p>What has also added to the commotion is the lack of organisation. Volunteers from the field say that most NGOs do not have local networks and, hence, are unable to reach the victims. While prominent, accessible areas of towns are receiving some relief, the rural population is not. “NGOs are just sending the items in trucks with a few people to distribute them. None of them have volunteers going and inspecting the areas and trying to find out what is needed where. As a result only a small percentage of victims are benefiting from them,” said <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.carped.org" target="_blank">M Subhash Chandra of Centre for Action Research and People’s Development</a></span>, that is working for flood victims in Mahabubnagar.<br />
Relief, in some cases, is even adding to health concerns. “One part of Kurnool was sent borewell water packed in sachets. Close to 60 people fell ill after drinking that water,” said Mujeeb Khan from the NGO, Bhumi. He said that such situations were a result of certain NGOs jumping into the relief act without any prior experience of tackling such largescale calamities. <a rel="attachment wp-att-473" href="http://carped.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/civil-society-groups-clueless-helpless-in-doling-out-relief/getimage-toi-2/"><img class="size-full wp-image-473 alignleft" title="getimage toi" src="http://carped.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/getimage-toi1.jpg?w=460&#038;h=305" alt="getimage toi" width="460" height="305" /></a></p>
<p>MESSY AFTERMATH: A flood victim looks at a pile of damaged articles in front of her house in Alampur<br />
source : Times of India, 13 Oct 2009</p>
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