Santakavita Mandalam residents welcome Sayanna Gadda canal repairs
March 3, 2008.
This week, the people of Santakavita Mandalam, Srikakulam DIstrict are extremely happy to learn that the Government of Andhra Pradesh  has sanctioned Rs 3.4 crores for repair of the Sayanna Gadda canal.  For the past 2 years Association for India's Development, India's (AID-India), Srikakulam Chapter, along with the people from about 25 villages has been demanding the repair of this canal that causes annual flooding of over 1000 acres of agricultural land.  Since the monsoon of 2006, when villagers refused to take compensation for crop loss from the government but demanded permanent solutions,   AID-India had organized series of village meetings and collected signatures and mobilized people to meet with the collector and write to the Irrigation department.

Here is a photo feedback of the Jansahyog humanitarian relief supported by AID.  Foodgrains were provided to 110 adivasi (tribal) families of Akkalkua Tehsil, Maharshtra in the months of December 2007 and January 2008.   Each family was provided 2 quintals (200 Kg)  food-grains (Jowhar/makkai), 20 Kg pulses (urad/chana/chowli), 2 Kg salt and 1 Kg chilli powder (at a cost of about Rs 3 lakhs for 110 families).  The latest distribution coordinated by Suhas Kohlekar on behalf of Bombay Sarvodaya Friendship Center follows the one before Diwali, when  220 families were provided food grain relief (180 of them in Madhya Pradesh who were given wheat as food grain). 
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