Dusharla Satyanarayana

Dusharla Satyanarayana
Born	1954 (age 70–71) Nalgonda, Hyderabad State, India
Nationality	Indian
Known for	Water activism

Dusharla Satyanarayana (born 12 March 1954) is an Indian water rights activist and founder of Jala Sadhana Samithi (JSS). He is fighting for drinking and irrigation water for Nalgonda district in Telangana, formerly Andhra Pradesh, India, by completing the decades-old Srisailam Left Bank Canal Tunnel scheme. He also supported statehood for Telangana. ^[1] He is vice president of Suvidha. ^{[2] [ failed verification ]}

Early life

He was born in Raghavapuram village, Mothey Mandal, Nalgonda district, Telangana State. He did his B.Sc. (Agriculture) at Jayashanker Agricultural University, Hyderabad.

Career

He joined Andhra Bank, Cuddapah in 1977 as an agricultural assistant. He resigned and worked as Rural Development Officer in the Union Bank of India. ^[3] After looking at the plight of the small and marginal farmers he left to become an activist.

Jala Sadhana Samithi

He founded Jala Sadhana Samithi in 1980 to fight for the unjust treatment of water allocation to Nalgonda, which resulted in widespread cases of fluorosis. ^[4] He did walkathons for water as well as Telangana statehood. ^[5]

He did various types of protests like padayatras from Nalgonda to Srisailam, Yadagirigutta and Hyderabad to highlight the water woes of the people of the region in general and the fluoride victims of the district in particular. He did protests in Delhi.

He created a forest in his own barren land of 70 Acres, in his village. ^[6]

References

1. Hindu, The (30 December 2009). "'Separate Telangana holds the key to all problems'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2025. Jala Sadhana Samithi founder Dusharla Satyanarayana deplored that the Telangana region suffered severe injustices in all spheres
2. Pradeep, B. (29 July 2017). "Water from these ancient wells can 'dissolve' kidney stones". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Dusharla Satyanarayana, a water rights activist says, "These age-old water sources offered some relief to the fluoride-affected district."
3. "Fluorosis drives them to seek divine assistance". The Hindu. 25 January 2008. Archived from the original on 22 January 2025. JSS founder Dusharla Satyanarayana, a former bank officer, briefed the officers about his plans
4. "CPI(M) wants separate pipelines, tanks in fluoride-hit villages". The Hindu. 9 July 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Andhra Pradesh Jalasadhana Samiti, headed by Dusharla Satyanarayana, had suggested creation of a water grid
5. "The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Nalgonda News : Padayatra to Yadagirigutta shrine begins". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
6. ఈనాడు, వారెవ్వా (31 December 2018). "అతడు అడవిని సృష్టించాడు". eenadu.net (in Telugu). వాల్తెల్లి ప్రదీప్‌. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.