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Father carries sick son 5 km on shoulders on roadless Andhra village
A father carried his feverish son on his shoulders for nearly 5 km to reach a hospital in Parvathipuram Manyam district after the family found no road to travel on. The boy,…
A father carried his feverish son on his shoulders for nearly 5 km to reach a hospital in Parvathipuram Manyam district after the family found no road to travel on. The boy, Yashwanth, from Rebba-Vanadha village in Komarada mandal, needed treatment at Kuneru Hospital. His father walked the entire distance because the village lacks any proper road connectivity.
The incident has renewed attention on the remote settlement's long-standing infrastructure gap. Villagers hope officials will now act to build a road. The local administration has not yet commented on a timeline for construction.
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Rebba-Vanadha is one of several remote habitations in Parvathipuram Manyam district, a region where dense forest and hilly terrain have kept road construction slow for decades. Under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, village roads are meant to be funded based on population thresholds and distance from an all-weather road, but implementation has repeatedly lagged in left-wing extremism-affected blocks such as Komarada. The boy's family was not airlifting him to an urban hospital, only to a primary health centre at Kuneru, yet the trek still took hours. Residents have petitioned the mandal parishad before, the district collector now faces a test of whether a publicised hardship triggers new sanctions. The next quarterly review of PMGSY works in the district is due in March, when officials must explain in writing what is holding up each unconnected village.
Source: deccanchronicle.com
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