The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has opposed the opacity of the South Central Railway (SCR) in going ahead with the expansion of the Cherlapally railway station and demanded that the residents in the proximity be given information how the expansion would affect them, a statement said.
A team from the HRF, led by coordination committee member for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana S. Jeevan Kumar, conducted a fact-finding exercise in Bharat Nagar and Mahalakshmi Nagar areas of Cherlapally and learnt that the residents did not know anything about the expansion.
However, two women—P. Balanarsamma and I. Padma of Bharat Nagar—have been asked by the railway officials to vacate the homes. Both the women constructed the houses after procuring the plots through a purchase agreement by notary. They expressed helplessness after the SCR officials refused to give them any compensation citing that the homes were built on railway land.
