Vijayawada: Carrying sick and pregnant women in doli (slings) from tribal villages to the nearest healthcare centres in emergencies could be a thing of past once the state govt’s ongoing project to transform road connectivity to interior tribal areas is completed.
The govt has taken up a massive programme under ‘Adavi Talliki Baata‘ to construct roads to almost all tribal hamlets, including the remotely located villages of particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTG). Deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan is firm on making all tribal hamlets accessible to the administration.
The improved road connectivity will not only help them in emergencies but is expected to transform their economies. While it took nearly 75 years to cover about 68 percent tribal villages with road access, the panchayat raj dept rolled out the project in such a way that it wanted to connect the remaining 32 percent villages with better roads in a span of four years.
“We found that 2,605 PVTG hamlets out of the total 3,782 have road access. The remaining 1,177 villages are still inaccessible. We have already started the works to complete roads to 601 PVTG villages and will complete all the works by this fiscal. We have also readied plans to take up works to provide road connectivity to the remaining 576 villages in the next phase,” commissioner of panchayat raj dept, Krishna Teja Mylavarapu, said.
He said Andhra Pradesh will become the first state in the country to complete road access to all PVTG villages after the completion of the ongoing works. “Just 22 PVTG hamlets got roads during the previous regime, which spent around Rs 92 crore between 2019 and 2024. We are spending Rs 1,005 crore in one go to complete roads of around 1,069 kms to provide road access to nearly 601 PVTG villages, which will bring revolutionary changes in the lives of the tribals. There is a 10-fold increase in budget allocation over the past five years,” added Krishna Teja.
Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan visited one of the remotest tribal hamlets in ASR dist last week and personally inspected the ongoing works. “We are not here to seek votes. We want to become your voice,” he declared.
The govt has taken up a massive programme under ‘Adavi Talliki Baata‘ to construct roads to almost all tribal hamlets, including the remotely located villages of particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTG). Deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan is firm on making all tribal hamlets accessible to the administration.
The improved road connectivity will not only help them in emergencies but is expected to transform their economies. While it took nearly 75 years to cover about 68 percent tribal villages with road access, the panchayat raj dept rolled out the project in such a way that it wanted to connect the remaining 32 percent villages with better roads in a span of four years.
“We found that 2,605 PVTG hamlets out of the total 3,782 have road access. The remaining 1,177 villages are still inaccessible. We have already started the works to complete roads to 601 PVTG villages and will complete all the works by this fiscal. We have also readied plans to take up works to provide road connectivity to the remaining 576 villages in the next phase,” commissioner of panchayat raj dept, Krishna Teja Mylavarapu, said.
He said Andhra Pradesh will become the first state in the country to complete road access to all PVTG villages after the completion of the ongoing works. “Just 22 PVTG hamlets got roads during the previous regime, which spent around Rs 92 crore between 2019 and 2024. We are spending Rs 1,005 crore in one go to complete roads of around 1,069 kms to provide road access to nearly 601 PVTG villages, which will bring revolutionary changes in the lives of the tribals. There is a 10-fold increase in budget allocation over the past five years,” added Krishna Teja.
Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan visited one of the remotest tribal hamlets in ASR dist last week and personally inspected the ongoing works. “We are not here to seek votes. We want to become your voice,” he declared.
