District Collector D. Divya is likely to meet Chief Secretary S. K. Joshi in Hyderabad on Monday to apprise him of the issue related with tribal village Mallapur in Sirikonda mandal.
The Adivasi Raj Gond villagers are demanding reassignment of Mallapur and Dharmasagar to Indervelli mandal as having it within the limits of Sirikonda has created logistical problems for them.
The Collector had visited Mallapur on June 30 and interacted with the Adivasis who had started shifting their houses some distance away to cross over into the jurisdiction of Indervelli mandal. They had held back the relocation only on assurance of officers that higher authorities will be apprised of their problems and a solution would be found.
According to village headman or patel Durva Raju the villagers were facing problems to reach Sirikonda mandal headquarters as well as other distant places for marketing agriculture produce etc.
Indervelli was convenient logistically but their pleas had fallen on deaf ears and the villages were clubbed with newly formed Sirikonda when the reorganisation of districts was done in 2016.