Hyderabad: Chaos ensued in Khanapuram village of the Mudigonda Mandal in Khammam district of Telangana when officials suddenly switched the launch of the pilot program of Praja Palana schemes from Khanapuram to Suvarnapuram village, agitating the likely beneficiaries leading them to lock up the survey officers in the gram panchayat office.
As per the government’s orders, the Praja Palana officials had selected 20 villages in 20 mandals to launch the pilot programs of Rythu Bharosa, Indiramma Illu, Indiramma Athmeeya Bharosa and the issuing of new ration cards on a saturation basis.
Teams of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) officials along with the local tahsildar, mandal parishad development officer (MPDO) and the mandal agriculture officer surveyed the village for two hours trying to identify the beneficiaries.
However, they later received a call asking to conduct a survey in Suvarnapuram instead as the pilot program was switched to the latter. The villagers of Khanapuram who were initially rejoicing over getting the benefits of the schemes protested the switch and ended up locking the survey officials in the panchayat office.
Good sense prevailed on the locked officials who later decided to take on the pilot program in Khanapuram after they were set free by the villagers.
