Hyderabad, May 14 -- In a win-win situation for both the Chenchus and the forest department, caught in a land ownership tussle for the past few years, 23 families of Chenchus living in Macharam village of Amrabad mandal in Nagarkurnool district have been given ownership of 30 acres of land in question.

The icing on the cake is Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy launching the state government's highly anticipated "Indira Soura Giri Jala Vikasam" scheme's pilot project from Macharam on May 18.

Under the scheme, selected villages in the agency areas will undergo geological surveys to identify water resources, followed by the drilling of borewells and the installation of solar-powered pump sets.

It is designed to provide irrigation f...