Living Peoples in Papikondalu

These are small villages with population ranging form 20 to 200 families, some of them are well connected, some are just connected by river and with no electricity. Around 200 and more villages are going to be submerged forever once this proposed "polavaram"project finally comes to existence as told by our guide. Even this very famous temple will no longer exist. Hard to digest that. we talk about rehabilitations and compensations and how projects are good.[ 70% of Godavari river water joins sea wasted as estimated. Its one of the largest perennial river flowing through A.P supporting large part of cultivation, and goes without a major dam constructed on it in this part of its journey. So this project which is supposed to do lots of good and bad is as controversial as many other ambitious projects of its kind.]and I wonder how it all will end one day. So we were traveling upstream to this beautiful river whose breadth and depth of flow was amazing:) As it is upstream ride we took 5 hours to reach our destination . Our next stop was "Devi patnam" it was customary stop for security checking which was normal for all rides here. One of the interesting facts about this police station was an old building belonging to British raj time. Famous rebel leader of this area in that period Alluri sitharamaraju who attached a police station near to this patnam was kept in confinement in devipatnam. Ok thanks to our travel Guide