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Until a week ago, 14-year-old Veeraiah could barely even imagine what the words ‘highway’, ‘traffic jam’, ‘skyscrapers’ or ‘crowds’ meant. Having lived in the remote Palutla village, in the core area of the Srisailem Tiger Reserve nestled deep in the Nallamalla forests all his life, the teenager was a stranger to the ‘strange’ ways of big cities. And yet, here he was in Hyderabad, wide-eyed and wonderstruck, along with 20 other friends from his village, who were equally amazed at the whole big world that opened up to them as they stepped out of their forest for the first time ever. The youngsters 15 boys and six girls aged between eight and 18, belonging to the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) of Chenchus were in the city to collect the shiny new bicycles, on which they were to embark on an adventure of a lifetime a five-month-9,000 km-long cycling and running expedition, all the way to the Himalayas, which was flagged off from
Tribals of Palutla show the way
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The Chenchu and Sugali communities of the remote Palutla plateau are setting an example in bonhomie by unanimously selecting the sarpanch as envisaged by the State government for speedier development.
The hamlet, comprising 800 voters, have decided to elect as their sarpanch Karamthot Haninibhai, a woman from the Sugali community.
“The goal is to put the tribal village with low development indices on the path of progress,” says Chevula Anjaiah, an elderman from the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG).
The remote village is not just the first polling station in Prakasam district but also the home of tribals who have been living in complete harmony with the environment of the Nallamalla forests, a repository of rare species of flora and fauna.