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Bansapalli: Villagers of Bansapalli in Nirmal district declined to accept shoes, schoolbags and books donated by the management of the ethanol factory to students.
Parents said shoes and schoolbags were donated by the company to Classes VII, VIII, IX students and guides to SSC students in Bansapalli in Dilawarpur mandal.
The issue came to light on Thursday even though it had happened last week. With this gesture, the villagers sent a message that they were not going to yield to any allurements no matter how lucrative they were.
The parents felt that the company management was trying to lure them away from their stance on the ethanol factory.
The children and parents gave slogans like “We don’t want shoes, schoolbags and books as well as ethanol factory in our area.”
Naresh said the teachers made it appear like they were an NGO wanting to donate material to poor students. Knowing about the ‘donation’, members of the village development committee went to the school and inquired about the material.
Dilawarpur MEO (in-charge) K. Shankar said they asked the representatives to take their material back since villagers declined to take shoes, schoolbags and books.
However, the representatives are reportedly scared of coming to the village to take back their material.
Sheik Pasha, an auto driver of Kanjar village, told Deccan Chronicle that the company promoters had misguided local people by spreading information that they were establishing a ‘Vithanal’ (in Telugu ‘Vithanalu’ mean seeds) factory but not ‘ethanol’ factory.
“Many people were under the impression that it was a seed factory and there was not much opposition in the initial days but villagers protested when they came to know that it was not a seed but an ethanol factory,” he said.