visakha agency area

With a malaria epidemic raging in the visakha agency areas, no senior doctors have been deputed to the Godavari Pushkarams from the three north coastal districts.

A ganja-laden vehicle met with an accident at Pentapadu near Chintapalli town in visakha agency area on Friday morning. The vehicle was being chased by cops from the special enforcement bureau after it didn’t stop at the check-post. In a hurry to escape from the police, the driver lost control over the vehicle and hit a tree near near Pentapadu.

The Arabica variety of coffee grown in the visakha agency area, also known as Pedabayulu coffee, may be known for its fine quality but has failed to do much to improve the lot of its tribal cultivators.

Five armed militants belonging to the Galikonda Area Committee of the CPI Maoists surrendered before the Narsipatnam OSD Kartikeya at Narsipatnam on Saturday.

The tribal associations are demanding the government to declare a Health Emergency in the Vizag tribal belt to control the coronavirus spread. More than 15 positive cases were reported in the visakha agency area.

The visakha agency area, which is one of the state’s most scenic regions, is also one of the most inaccessible. The area is dotted with tribal hamlets, most of which lack road connectivity. Things become worse during the rainy season, with locals forced to swim across streams to buy essentials.

No untoward incident was reported in the Andhra Odisha Border area on Thursday when the CPI Maoists observed a bandh in five states to protest the Ramanguda encounter near Bejjangi in Malkangiri district with AP-Odisha security personnel on October 24 in which at least 31 Naxals were killed.

visakha agency area is viable for producing exotic vegetables that are in high demand in foreign countries, including the United States, if a study carried out by horticultural scientists is to be believed.

NARSIPATNAM: The Vizag range DIG LKV Ranga Rao advised the sarpanches of Visakha Rural area to create awareness among the villagers to shift them to commercial crops from ganja cultivation. Visakha rural area should get a good name across the nation from the name of the ganja hub.

Buzz about dreaded Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK increasingly playing an active role in naxal activities in the Andhra Odisha Border areas, particularly Visakha Agency, despite his ailing health, has sent a frisson of alarm running through the security forces involved in anti-naxal operations in the AOB.

Two Maoists were allegedly killed by the security forces in an exchange of fire incident at Pedakodapalli–Buradamamidi areas in Pedabayalu mandal in Visakha agency in the midnight of Friday.

The district cops have been put on high alert following information about members of the banned CPI Maoist outfit eyeing soft targets in the Visakha Agency to spread terror and pressurise people's representatives to intensify the anti-bauxite agitation.

The Bucchaiahpeta police arrested four ganja smugglers and seized a about 160 kg of the contraband worth around Rs 12 lakh that was being transported to Anakapalle from the visakha agency area via Vaddadi in Bucchaiahpeta mandal on Wednesday.

With the Maoists calling for protest week from July 1 to protest against fake encounters, illegal arrests and surrenders by cops, fear has gripped the Visakha Agency with tribals too scared to even venture out to the weekly markets.

Policemen posted in the Maoist-infested areas have urged the state government to intervene and give them postings to urban areas at the earliest.

Maoists on Monday extended the deadline they gave to the state government for scraping the proposed bauxite mining project in the Visakha Agency by another 48 hours in exchange for releasing the three abducted TDP tribal leaders.