Saturday, November 1, 2008

Its a miss...

There was a fight between husband and wife. After some time, husband went wild and took out Ax to Kill/Warn his wife. Their child was in the center and watching them. In the middle of fight, accidentally Ax fell on child's thy. Ax is removed and wounded thy is left.

No treatment, No police complaint.

Few weeks back in same village, one persons's leg was completely caught in fire and the fire is stopped and leg is left.

Again no treatment, No police complaint.

I am talking about Barbaric villagers in State of Andhra Pradesh. These Tribal villages are situated in west godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. I came to know about all these incidents after i came across a news in Eenadu daily (Snippet attached).

An NGO group (Sathya Sai devotees) along with few officials were on some visit to these forests and identified these two incidents. and villagers are not ready for any kinda treatment. They are happy to lead their life with those wounded legs but not with people in Cities/towns (In other words, with us). Its true, tribals are scared of us. this NGO group took lot of their energy out to bring these children for treatment in city.

Now my friends started funding to this incident and i was supposed to visit those villages with the help of these NGO's on saturday. Our bus got delayed delayed delayed testing our patience and at the end, we decided to cancel the trip. Otherwise i would have got good pics and videos of villagers and their lives. Its a miss , but i am sure even after 10 years they will be like that only. I can get pics / videos any time i visit later.

Questions -
1. NGO people are feeling pain to collect funds, why no Arogya Sri or any other government schemes to tribals (May be just because they are not part of vote bank and no one from their end will come out for protests against government).
2. These people ran into forests during british rule, why are they still hiding and still scared of us? who should be held responsible for not motivating them for all these years? are tribal officers there only to preserve forest? Not to preserve villagers there?

paper snippet:

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