Houses In Blind Colony Razed To Ground In Palamur: Srinivas Goud

Former minister Srinivas Goud today alleged that around 400 policemen went to the Blind Colony in Mahabubnagar in the middle of the night and demolished the houses of the blind claiming that their houses were on encroached land.

Speaking to the media at Telangana Bhavan, he claimed that the police did not stop even though the blind people pleaded with them to at least let them take their belongings.

"In 2007, the then Congress government gave the pattas to the needy. The BRS government later also gave them Mission Bhagiratha water," he said. The blind recipients of the pattas spent four years building houses there with chits and their pension money.

"Action should be taken against those who gave the pattas to the poor. How can you give land to poor people, and then later demolish the houses they build using their hard-earned money in that land?" he asked.

He also claimed that there was no pond in the colony of the blind, and that neither was the land worth crores of rupees.

He said that the government authorities gave 30 days' notice to powerful people before taking any action against their illegal constructions, but that the same principle of natural justice was not applied in the issue of the blind people.

"And is there any law that allows the demolishing of houses without giving notice?" he asked.

Goud called upon all parties to respond in a humane manner on the issue, and demanded that pucca houses be constructed for the blind people in the same place that the government demolished their houses.