Karimnagar City the name came from Syed Karimullah Shah Saheb Quiladar, and was a centre for Vedic learning. It was one of the capitals during the rule of the Nizams, and there are several famous people like P.V. Narasimha Rao, Former Indian Prime Minister, who won from karimnagar. Karimnagar District is home to many tribes such as Gonds, Koyas, and Chenchus all who live in their own settlements and speak their own dialects. The town is known for its silver filigree work, a very delicate form of metal craft.

Harithasri' programme launched

KARIMNAGAR: The district administration has embarked upon an ambitious task of development of land distributed to the landless poor under the ‘Harithasri' programme in the Manthani assembly segment.

Minister D Sridhar Babu formally launched the programme in Kannala village of Kamanpur mandal on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, he said that they had taken up the land development programme under the Harithasri programme on an experimental basis in Manthani segment in the state.

The land distributed to the poor would be developed and would be made into cultivable by providing all facilities. He said that the government had launched the land distribution scheme in 2006 in the district. A total of 17,000 acres was distributed to beneficiaries, including 5,800 acres in Manthani assembly segment. He called upon farmers to take up horticulture in their lands for better profits with less investments.

Collector GD Aruna said that the Harithasri programme was a boon to the farmers, who were unable to cultivate in the lands distributed by the government. She said that they would transform these lands within six months and see that the farmers were busy cultivating in their lands. She said that they were developing 167 acres of land in Kannavala village. She said that the programme would be taken up in all villages very soon. Joint Collector Ch Vijay Mohan, DRDA project director Ravinder, DWMA project director Naveen Kumar and others were also present.

 

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