As a part of routine field work I decided to visit villages far remote. Then I was advised by my help to go to Maruvada, one of the disconnected village in Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh. As usual the place is habitat for SC and ST. They divided the place into SC Maruvada and ST Maruvada. The only properly built pucca house in the habitat is a Church. For an eighty families living over there, the basic amenities such as education, health and drinking water are far away. In case of health emergency, they don't even have facility of public or private transport since there is no road connection with nearby villages.
They had to settle in this remote place in order to do cultivation, that too as tenant farmers. Lack of concrete roads make it impossible to commute to Maruvada in rainy season. Even for MGNREGS work, they had to go to surrounding villages in Sikhabadi, Jiyyammavalasa or Ravada Ramabhadrapuram. When asked them about due pending for the current EMI, they were helpless just showed me the grains they cultivated which were due for procurement. They state arranged procurement office bearers can't go there to purchase the paddy grain and the businessmen waiting for the correct price to arrive to purchase the paddy grain at cheaper cost. I saw the grains packed in jute bags which will get rotten in case of rain. The farmers neither have the capability to take the loads of grain to market.
With the deteriorating climate conditions by the year due to global warming, the case for small and marginal farmers such as in Maruvada is pathetic. The state may feel 'few villagers of Maruvada' but the single Maruvada represenst hundreds of such villages and millions of people left out of Shining India.
Prashant K Snigtha
15.01.2016
They had to settle in this remote place in order to do cultivation, that too as tenant farmers. Lack of concrete roads make it impossible to commute to Maruvada in rainy season. Even for MGNREGS work, they had to go to surrounding villages in Sikhabadi, Jiyyammavalasa or Ravada Ramabhadrapuram. When asked them about due pending for the current EMI, they were helpless just showed me the grains they cultivated which were due for procurement. They state arranged procurement office bearers can't go there to purchase the paddy grain and the businessmen waiting for the correct price to arrive to purchase the paddy grain at cheaper cost. I saw the grains packed in jute bags which will get rotten in case of rain. The farmers neither have the capability to take the loads of grain to market.
With the deteriorating climate conditions by the year due to global warming, the case for small and marginal farmers such as in Maruvada is pathetic. The state may feel 'few villagers of Maruvada' but the single Maruvada represenst hundreds of such villages and millions of people left out of Shining India.
Prashant K Snigtha
15.01.2016
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