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• Granite business in crores
• No security for lives of people
• No bother about environment degradation
• Elagandula fort gradually facing destruction
• Indifferent rulers remain tight lipped.
• Elagandula is the sign of Telugu history
• Karimnagar is the place for first Telugu kings
• The sign of grandeur of Satavahanas
• The history of Elagandula fort is being buried
• Greatly spoiling the environment
• Town is fully covered with dust
• Village Tank is being fill up with stones
• Historical signs are gradually disappearing
• Drinking water tank now in the way of disappearing
• Tank water turned with pollution
• Fishermen lost their livelihood
• Indifferent nature of the Government taking the problem to severe stage
• Nobody bothering about historical signs
• Development shall not cause for destruction of lives
• Historical identity gradually disappearing
• People are unable to live in peace
Once if anybody questioned about historical signs of a place, the general answer was nearby hills and forest areas. But now situation is totally changed. Such hills those still remain as sign of history gradually disappearing due to granite activity. In other words hills lost their historical identity and remain a place of hectic granite activity. The value of business is crores. History is nothing but a sentiment. We can easily let it in our books. Just by looking at the hill is nothing benefit to us. If you start digging, earning of money is possible. That entire hill turned in the form like gold and gives you crores of rupees. Our predecessors enjoyed their life by just looking at the nature beauty on such hills. Like that they cause to protect the environment. Now such hill gradually subjected to destruction in the cover of development. At the same time it is causing to earn limitless money. Now if you dig a hill it will give money, after transforming it as even land, there you can construct building. These also facilitate you to create wealth. Like that now this destruction is causing to create wealth. The greediness and indifferent nature of granite business people will greatly damage the life of future generations.
It became general phenomenon that everybody’s negligence towards protecting the historical signs and thinking on business. Business gives a chance to earn money but what will be the gain with sentiment? That sentiment confined to our predecessors. They protected our environment, but we are creating destruction. We feel earning money is progress. For this purpose greedy people are digging the hills and accumulating wealth. Till yesterday, hills stood in support of lives. Now they are gradually disappearing. In the place where hill is disappeared real estate business enters like octopus. Like that entire nature’s beauty faces utter ruin. Still we are not able to understand why these natural calamities occurring in frequent? Because of such acts of destruction is the main reason for facing the angry of nature. These activities are making us to accumulate the sins of destruction.
Elagnadula…it is the sign of early history of Telugu people. This was the origin place of Satavahana kings. It is the right time for us to protect our history of pride. Simply saying words is not enough. We must turn into action plan to protect historical sites. Greedy people always confined to their selfish thinking. Unfortunately Government had forgotten its primary responsibility of taking care of such sites.
Now these private people are destructing the hills in the name creating wealth. Without creating the wealth how society will survive is the question posed by them. Elagandula and its surrounding villages surrounded by number of hills. They are rich in granite stones. This is natural resource. We must live by depending on them but not at the cost of their destruction. Unfortunately now what happening is this act of making ruin? This act is continuing since decades back. Granite business people continue to bring stones from surrounding villages and purify them at Elagandula water tank. For this purpose they require lot of water. During this process the waste produced as by-product is being left in this tank. Previous Government didn’t give permission for such activities. But the present corrupt officials and leaders gave permission accepting the briberies from such business men.
Now the smoke releasing from the granite cutters is covering entire village. Entire village environment is being spoiled with thick dust and causing health problems to the people. Pulmonary and cancer cases are gradually increasing. An ordinary smoke will cause damage to our lungs. Whereas this dangerous dust released from granite cutters turned slow death traps for the village people. Elagandula tank is remains historical sign of this region. Once this tank not only provided drinking water to Elagandula but also for Karimnagar. Before construction of L&D, it remains the source of drinking water for surrounding villages. Such great historical tank has now been facing danger of extinct due to granite activities. The lives of hundreds of families are fully dependent on this tank for their lively hood. Due to felling of stones after cutting activity finished, the tank gradually losing its existence and its area is shrinking. Now entire tank water is being covered with granite dust and its area also reduced to half of its original size. If this activity continued like this, within short period the Elagandula tank will disappear. Already now its water became polluted with granite waste material.
Especially Mudiraj people have been depended on fisheries activity in this tank for decades together for their livelihood. Now they have caught in the danger of losing their fishing activity, which remain the main source of their income. For the sake of one Granite business person the livelihood of entire Mudiraj people fell in stake. Unfortunately Government is not taking any interest to preserve the fort which remains as historical sign of this area. If government take steps to beautify this fort, it will attract tourists. At the same time granite activity will get stopped. The government shall take steps to stop this exploitation of fort in the name of digging out granite stones by the unscrupulous business men. Small number of business men causing to fell the lives of large number people in danger. Concerned officials shall take steps to protect the environment of this region. Then only nature will get protected and health of the people regains its normal status. So people in surrounding villages especially Mudiraj people shall come forward to stop this illegal granite activity. This is essential to protect their livelihood. Your lives are depended on this tank. It is your primary responsibility to protect this tank which remains the main source of your lives since decades. So make these business men to leave this place. Then only your lives remain in peace.
