Visakhapatnam: Forest Wing Stall Roads to Remote Tribal Villages

Visakhapatnam: A 48-year-old diarrhoea patient from Karri Goda village in Gumma panchayat of Visakhapatnam district was carried by fellow villagers in a “doli” for eight kilometres from his village to Gumma. From there, he proceeded in a private auto-rickshaw to S. Kota Government Hospital for medical help.

Badnaini Kumar was feeling very weak following an attack of vomiting and diarrhoea.

There are many like Badnaini in this tribal region, who have had to travel with great difficulty to reach the nearest hospital.

The government has allocated Rs 7.5 crore for constructing roads to villages, such as Karri Goda, Kattarevu, Kottungoda and Kalyan Gummi. The District Level Committee had in August okayed laying of these roads.

But the project has remained stalled as the forest department has not issued the necessary permission for constructing the roads.

Tribal people have been appealing to forest officials to provide necessary permissions, so that their remote villages get access to various facilities, including hospitals.