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Suryapet police launch drive to protect lift irrigation projects
Suryapet district police have launched a coordinated drive to prevent thefts at lift irrigation schemes across Huzurnagar and Kodad constituencies. Officials held an awareness seminar on Thursday where District Collector Tejas Nandalal…
The Story in Brief
Suryapet district police have launched a coordinated drive to prevent thefts at lift irrigation schemes across Huzurnagar and Kodad constituencies. Officials held an awareness seminar on Thursday where District Collector Tejas Nandalal Pawar said thefts of transformers, motors, and wires inflict heavy losses on farmers. He urged farmers to form cooperative societies and monitoring committees for every lift irrigation project and install CCTV cameras. Superintendent of Police Narasimha said thieves target remote schemes and that patrolling will be intensified with point books at every site to track security. Kodad MLA Uttam Padmavathi Reddy asked farmers to treat the projects as their own property and protect them.
The Indian Opinion
The police, collector, and MLA are all telling farmers to guard government-funded irrigation projects as if the thefts are their fault. But farmers did not steal the transformers, organised gangs did. The real story is why remote infrastructure remains unwatched for months. Farmers already bear crop losses. Now they are being asked to form committees and install CCTVs with their own money. The number of point books filled last month will tell us whether patrolling actually happened or the burden was simply shifted.
Source: thehansindia.com
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