In Telangana’s Mulugu, containers crack the access code in cut-off tribal hamlets

During the monsoon, the thickness of the forest belt of TaLangana, where the rivers swollen and the roads disappeared, emerged in a metal box. The 30 -year -old bay from Pocapur Hamlet in the SS Tadvai latch from the Mulugu area reached a hospital for Allem Roja. Local Government Primary Health Center (PHC) is only 5 kilometers away, but it can be in another world, especially in the rain, without a bridge or a suitable way.

“Now, with this container health center in our village, while visiting the facility, which is a light fever and fatigue on July 31, one -year -old daughter, Kodishala PHC, B. Pavan Kumar’s medical officer, foresees medical and resting, Roja,“ We can get first aid and treatment for villages and small disorders.

The container clinic is a modest, prefabricated unit founded in July 2024 to serve the forest Fringe hamlets lying in the wild life shelter like Pochapur. The first health facility in TaLangana – a pilot effort directed by Local MLA and Panchayat Raj Minister and Rural Development, better Seethakka, known as Danasari Anasuya.

The initiative has reached far beyond Pochapur and expanded its influence to a few hamlets with a rare -populated hamlets and Gotti Kaya Gudems – originally from a native tribe from Chhattisgarh. These communities migrated in the mid -2000s after they escaped from violent clashes between illegal CPI (Maoist) and security forces. Among these forces were Salwa Judum, a controversial, state-supported anti-milis, which was founded in 2005 and displaced thousands of tribal families. Today, most of those who escaped from the conflict are re -established in these forested regions of the Medicine region, which are located in the intense forest land. However, prefabricated container -based centers for both health and education rewrite what is possible for these long -term neglected settlements.

Pavan Kumar said, “Minister Seethakka disappointed this kind of first facility on July 13 just before Monsoon last year.”

“In a year, we treated approximately 3,000 patients, including 457 fever cases. We performed rapid diagnostic tests for 448 people and found six malaria cases – each of them was three of Plasmodium Vivax and Plasmodium Falcarum. Only two patients had to be directed to high centers.

The facility, which operates as a sub -center under Kodishala PHC, also discussed the case of 12 prenatal and seven births. Pavan Kumar visits the center twice a week, supported by a assistant care midwife (ANM) and five accredited Social Health Activists (Ashas).

“They all cover five villages of Pochapur, Narcapur, Aligudem, Bandala and Bollepalli under Bandala Gram Panchayat.”

A health system made of steel

According to the regional collector TS Divakara, people were born from pure necessity because they could not travel to 5 kilometers or 35 kilometers to Pasra town, especially during the rains, 5 kilometers on the forest land: “Permanent structures are not allowed in the sacred area due to forest arrangements.

La 7 is built at the cost of lakh, four beds and a small laboratory with toilets just outside. It may not be fancy, but it has become a transformation for many.

Allem Ashok, a young master in the field of journalism and mass communication from Warangal, University of Kakatiya and Pocapur University, Born in Pochapur, continues to be a problem between the staff in Kodishala. “I have filed a few complaints with the medical and medical officer and collector,” he says, while accepting the container facility as a pleasant change.

“Many of us avoid going to hospitals, because we rely on the herbal remedies transferred by our elderly,” Kursam Bikshapathi, another local resident, says.

However, when emergency situations occur, obstacles are real. Last month, a pregnant woman named Gummadi from Aliguddem, Krishnaveni, was moved by family members and neighbors to reach the nearest motorized road in Bollepalli. Kutcha road was immersed and impassable. Finally, an ambulance was taken to the Government Regional Hospital in Mulugu.

The incident triggered the criticism of Kodishala PHC staff, especially because he worked as an Anm at Krishnaveni’s pochapur container facility. Some Natives accused health personnel of neglecting.

Dr. Pavan Kumar said that Krishnaveni, a 28 -week pregnant, entered an early labor force early on July 24th.

According to the collector’s instructions, he emphasizes that pregnant women approaching the full period (34-40 weeks) are transported to safer places due to floods. “This was a pre -period situation, but it was immediately handled.”

Beyond the health services, the minister’s container initiative expanded to include training. A cement connecting Kodishala to Pochapur continues to work on the concrete road and the bridges are being built along a few streams.

Seethakka, an old naxalite, belongs to the bay tribal community, said, ık We got the last monsoon idea ”.

“I know these hamlets and their struggles; I grew up here and worked as a revolutionary. The collector clicked when he talked about using containers in my village, such as an anganwadi.”

The first container facility appeared in just 20 days. Two more have been established since then – in the Ilapuram in Kannaigudem Mandal on the banks of the Godavari River and Edjarlapalle in Wazeedu Mandal. Pucca Houses under the Indian Housing Program are also allocated to appropriate families and sanctions were applied in the first stage for 5,000 Mulugu region.

“Our aim is to improve the living conditions in these agencies by considering the backwardness of the region. We also encourage eco-tourism in places such as Laknavaram Lake, Tadvi Forest and Bogatha Waterfall.

He also emphasizes the cultural importance of Mulugu: iz We have the Temple of Ramappa, known to UNESCO, and we are hosting the largest tribal community of Asia-Sammakka-Sarakka Jatara in the two-year two-year-old Jatara. ”

Education in a box

Following the health centers, Tahangana’s first container school arrived in Bangarupalle, a hamlet in Kannaigudem Mandal in September last year. Previously, the students of this government primary school were attending classes under the roof that leaked reed. The 25×25 FT container, built at the cost of ₹ 13.5 lakh in 10 days, serves 21 students from nursery to class 5 and is equipped with digital board, solar panels and basic furniture. “Earlier, classes would be suspended when it rained due to roof leakage. Now it’s a suitable school,” he says.

The students belong to the Gotti Kaya community that settled here after they emigrated from Chhattisgarh 25 years ago.

Students play outside Parishad Elementary School in a container in Bangarupalli Hamlet from Kanchayat in the Mulugu region. | Photo Loan: Nagara Gopal

Teachers say that digital board supported by the penthouse solar panels increases student participation, but forest laws still prevent the disposal of energy lines.

Hamlet has only 37 families and is cut during rains due to swollen rivers. Teachers usually struggle to reach school. One of them, A. Saraswathi, wandered in a dangerous field and goes to work on a motorcycle with her husband daily.

“Now, in the past, we are not afraid of snakes or other toxic creatures in the past, or he says.

However, Seethakka believes that it needs to change more. “The center has relieved rules for mining in forest areas, but not for basic public services. Development is not possible without roads. Forest laws should not prevent electricity for tribal communities, and calls for changes in forest arrangements that prevent basic infrastructure in tribal areas.

He wants electricity to be provided through solar energy systems and the tribal tribal wants to open the borders openly for agricultural lands to avoid disputes.

The consistent push seems to work. On August 3, the TELANGANA State Board cleared several long-term development work on new roads in the agency areas of Mulu, a 30-bed hospital and safari vehicles in Pakhal Kothaguda (Neighboring Mahababad region) to encourage eco-tourism in SS TADVAi and Eturnagaram Mandals.

A model in production

The collector Divakara says that although container -based services are not permanent solutions, they are practical considering the land and restrictions of Mulu. According to the 2011 census, the population of the region was found in 2,94 Lakh, which has spread to 75,600 families. The planned tribes constitute 29.36% of the total population.

Eturnagaram Mandal, which has corporate social responsibility funds from ECIL, has more container schools on the pipeline, including one. “We are pleased that the integrated tribal development agency in the neighbor Andhra Pradesh has adopted our model.

In these forests, where the roads are scarce and less help, a steel container means more than convenience; dignity. Where floods rely on access and systems, it is not a container stopgap. It is a sign that the state does not look away. It’s not a miracle, it’s a definite start.