Tribal Communities in Mahanga Block Suffer from Lack of Basic Amenities and IDs

Tribal communities are suffering from lack of basic amenities. Villagers are suffering. Kuanpal, 31/12 (AP): Both the central and state governments are planning schemes for the tribal people. They are spending crores of rupees for their development. But more than 120 people from about 25 families living in the tribal community living near Kumuda Hat, Kuhunda Panchayat, Mahanga Block, Cuttack District, are not getting basic amenities. This has raised questions in the intelligentsia about the success of the government scheme. According to information, many of the people of this tribal community, who have been living for more than 50 years, do not have Aadhaar or voter ID cards. Since these two government certificates are not available, they will not be included in the allowance, food security or housing schemes. The most important thing is that the future of the country is in their families. Students cannot get a valid ID card because they do not have Aadhaar cards. Not only that, there is no good road for transportation of this object. While the entire population of the settlement depends on a tube well, during the hot season, the water from this tube well runs out, so they have to go to the Birupa River to fetch water. While pipes have been connected for underground water supply, they have been deprived of underground water. Without Aadhaar and voter cards, the elderly and widows of Bastar cannot get allowance. Although they are landless, they are not provided with land in the land mission. They are living in broken huts on the grazing land. Their children go to the Hansadia Vidyalaya and Anganwadi center of Mulbasant Panchayat, which is more than a kilometer away. Since the Anganwadi center is far away, there is a fear of accidents while some children are trying to go. Everyone living in the slum has a polythene sheet tied over their broken rice-shack houses. It is hard to believe their suffering during storms and floods. When elections come, the government officials who are doing voter registration and correction work register their names. But none of them are included in it. Since there is no government certificate, none of the residents living here have Aadhaar cards, so students who are struggling for AAP ID do not have voter ID cards; they do not have allowance and accommodation scheme, ration cards or bank accounts. Similarly, many families living in the Kumuda Haat and behind Kalyanpur Vidyalaya are also deprived of such basic amenities. In the larger interest of the tribal community, the Chief Minister, Mahanga MLA and District Collector have been asked to provide basic amenities to the tribal communities of Bastar, especially in the areas of Khunda Mani Padiya, Kalyanpur Vidyalaya and Kumuda Hatshabar.