| | After the richer locals leased land/water from the poor
cooperatives in the 1970s in Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, the land
has remained in the name of poor "beneficiaries", while the real
fisherfolk work on meagre wages. Ironically, those legally entitled
to the benefits have been reduced to wage earners on their own
land/water; the rich have not only taken over all the cooperative
societies, but have also started illegal encroachments.
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