Jana Sena seeks resurvey on fishermen beneficiaries

Kakinada: The Jana Sena’s Political Affairs Committee chairman Nadendla Manohar has sought a resurvey of the list of fishermen beneficiaries who got compensation during the conservative period.

Jana Sena activists led by Manohar visited the fishermen colonies here by undertaking a padayatra from the Jagannaickpur Venkateswara Swamy temple to the Yetimoga on Friday.

Manohar said the government should extend the enumeration data of the beneficiaries to prepare the list and the officials should make a thorough field level inquiry and then prepare a final list.

He said that there were 9000 eligible fishermen for compensation during the conservation period in Kakinada, but the officials listed out only 2300 as beneficiaries. “There are 2 lakh eligible fishermen in two erstwhile Godavari districts, but the government listed out only 21,000 beneficiaries.”

He said that when a 10-fishermen crew is going to sea for fishing, the government counted only six of them in each crew. Citing the reason that a person in a fishermen family takes pension, the conservation period  compensation had not been given to the other members of the family.

The government should increase the compensation amount to ₹ 30,000 from ₹ 10,000 as per the price index, he said.

Jana Sena East Godavari district president Kandula Durgesh, PAC members Pantham Venkateswara Rao, Mootha Sashidhar and others were present.