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As journalists appeared before the Loni Border Police Station (Uttar Pradeshâs Ghaziabad district) to make statements over whether or not they were guilty of a communally motivated crime by reporting/tweeting on that ugly assault on a 72-year-old Muslim, two aspects jumped out of the page for me.
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Polavaram will render people from 192 villages homeless DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated Apr 12, 2021, 1:33 am IST
Fearing submergence, locals demand compensation, safer living places
The state government had announced that 371 villages will be submerged due to the project and CCLA has given permission for providing R&R package to 164 villages. (DC Image))
KAKINADA: All those who have been displaced from 192 villages because of Polavaram Project are living in fear amid insecurity. They are all worried that the villages would be submerged in June or July because of cyclones and floods. They appealed to the Union and state governments to provide a relief and resettlement package to them, before the completion of Polavaram Project.