To connect kurumas worldwide, provide a healthy and strong platform for promotion of Kuruma culture, language and heritage and network the expertise, experience and skills of kurumas worldwide for building a harmonious, peaceful and prosperous Kuruma community.

An Important aspect of Socialism is concerned with narrowing down the gap between the haves who have far more than they can ever use and the have-nots who cannot even got the banest necessities like food clothing and shelter of the dimplest kind.

90% of people belonging to this community and who are leaving in rural areas are living in such deplorable conditions. Methods of raising their level by providing opportunities of remunerative employment and inducements, is a formidable task calling for great understanding, patience and perseverance. This would certainly increase the grass national output and the percapita income and raise the standard of living.

For this youth of this community have to work day and night under available guidance of elderly and elited personalities for social educational, political and financial development of entire community.

Whatever systems we follow we should provide Education for all by providing hostels for poor students in all District and Mandal headquarters.

We must first create a climate for rapid economic growth for we can have control on leather industry, manure industry and wool industry and also we can provide nutritious food to millions and millions of people of our country. When there is Economic prosperity, Social Justice will follow.

One of the major social problems facing the world today is the Unprecedented of Upheaval, unrest and discontent prevalent among the youth whether rich or poor developed, developing, under develop and un developed. The Youth revolt does not reflect any adherence to political ISMS or Serious causes like fight against exploitation and tyranny. Politicians are exploiting the of youth and making a mass in order to further their own political ends and personal ambitions.

Benefits can never be accrued to the Kuruma community unless and until the youth of kuruma community occupy decisions taking places such as MPPs, MPTCs, ZPPs, ZPTCs apart from village sarpanches. Demands of the community can be fulfilled unless and until people belonging to this community are MLAs & MPs. If a nation is to progress and if an individual is to succeed as a leader, we have to have disciple and character at all levels. If we want to prosper it is required for us to imbibe discipline and character in youth of our community and more team leaders in the society to lead are and all in every aspect. Only then the future will be theirs to build, shape and enjoy as they will. So the youth of our community should learn know how to rule tomorrow and enjoy the future.

REFORMS REQUIRED

For the development Kurumas it is required for us to take up following reforms and insist government to help us in all these aspects

1. Previously APCO and wool federation was separately managed. Few years back they were merged together thereby wool societies could not get sufficient fund and detoriated day by day. The factories which were manufacturing hundreds of blankets daily were closed down and all the wool weavers have become poppers. Now it is responsible of the present government to separate wool board from APCO and provide sufficient funds to uplift the wool society members.

2. Organised marketing facility shall have to provide shelling out sheep and goat at slaughter houses, skin of goat and sheep, wool of sheep and excreta of sheep and goat also have to be taken out in an organized marketing societies. So that benefits thus occurred to be given back to KURUMAS.

3. For the utility of above raw material that is mutton skin, wool and fertilizers, packing them up duly refined separate factories to be established.

4. Sheep and goat will be subjected to several deceases in a particular seasons hence suitable medicines sufficient quantity have to be made available in each and every village and they may be provided Mobile medical vans at the gracing lands. In this regard some of the youth belonging to Kurumas community of those villages where sheep and goat stay in abundant numbers, have to be trained in giving suitable Medicines in emergencies.

5. Hybrid verities of ‘Rams’ may be provided at each and every district center at subsidized prices to enable Kurumas to improve Quality and Quantity of Mutton & Wool.

6. Modernised methods in sheep raring must be given to Kurumas who are in this occupation at every district centres.

7. Thousand of Acres of waste lands is available in entire A.P which can be put to use by growing ‘fodder’ to the animal and special trees such as rubble and Black thumma, girisena and vepa (neem) etc. Which will act at feed to sheep. This programme as to be taken up sheep federation duely provisioning sufficient funds.

8. Special shelter for sheep and goat may be provided at each and every village, in the out skirts of villages.

9. There are about 3 crores of sheep and goat in available in AP for which Govt have provide sufficient fund with sheep and goat federation to take Insurance.

10. Central sheep and wool research institute of Rajasthan has proposed certain norms for the development of grazing lands, neutricious feed to sheep and goat, fixing up rates as quality of wool etc. This has to be implemented in our state also similarly Bombay research association is also fixed up certain norms for the development of Quality Wool Yarn, Let this also be adopted in our state.

11. Mordanized methods, Modernized process can be started in factories to utilize wool and other raw material of sheep and goat to enable Kuruma to beneficiated in particular and stating general.

12. Let us all work together shoulder to shoulder for the benefit of all round development of Kurumas in our state. Thus we have to become strong politically socially and economically

This shows that we are still under British policy

WE NEED INDEPENDENCE

To leverage the immense power of Internet technology and empower kurumas with the knowledge of their great culture and imbibe in them a deep understanding and love for their community and society as well.

We have only one mission i.e all sided development of Kurumas in A.P in Particular and in India in general. We happened to be at present completely down trodden and our literacy rate is only 7% to 8%. Where as our country and for that matter A.P’s average is 62%. It was just 0.5% in 1950. Because of the efforts of few great personalities of this community, standard of living of the people belonging to Kuruma Community literacy rate has increased substantially but far behind many communities. This development could be possible due to the farsightedness and guidance of eminent personalities such as Sri.Kolluru Mallappa MP Sri.B.Beerappa IAS, Sri.Poolchand Gandhi, Sri.Annarao the Ministers in erstwhile Hyderabad state. Personalities like Sri.Darga Durgaiah, Sri.Chittam Srisailam, Sri.KaleKaleshwarrao, Sri.Koride Eshwaraiah, Sri.Gulleni Veeraiah and many others toiled day in and day out to keep the entire community together and made everybody to work together for all round development in Kurumas in erstwhile Hyderabad state and later on motivated some youngsters to work similarly in A.P. In Order to keep the community and the people intact to function well a head, we require a bridge between us, so only Web is the solution to keep intact of all committees which are existing physically right from Village, Mandal, District and State to exhibit ourselves to modern world.

• To provide for a ‘Matrimonial Link’ in the website that will bring together unmarried kurumas from all over the world and facilitate right match making among prospective kurumas. The link will also provide complete information about the service providers, viz., photographers, caterers, etc., OR how to plan your budget or prepare your wedding checklist, OR find out the latest wedding collections in the saree and jewellery shops in the city OR other vital information for a successful marriage;

• To provide for a ‘Job Opportunities Link’ in the website that will help prospective Kuruba candidates to create a profile that will match the job requirements and help find the right job that is in tune with their potential and expertise;

• To establish a forum wherein kurumas facing problems in either their profession or personal life can disclose the same and seek solutions from experts to the issues troubling them.

Kollur Mallappa was the first President of Hyderabad Pradesh Congress Committee, prior to the merger of Hyderabad state into Andhra Pradesh . He was Member of Parliament from Raichur, now in Karnataka for several terms. He was mentor of late Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, several leaders like Virendra Patil, Shivraj Patil, S.B. Chavan and G. Venkataswamy, etc. He founded the Kuruba Sangham and the Kuruba hostel in Hyderabad.

Life

Mr. Mallappa was born in 1905 and joined the Indian National Congress in 1935 following a visit to Sabarmati Ashram along with his associate Janardhana Desai. The two met Mahatma Gandhi. He took an interest in Gandhian constructive activities and was the agent for the sale of cotton and woollen khadi and the popularisation of Hindi

Elections

Mr. Mallappa was elected to the Hyderabad State Assembly and re-elected from Surpur in Gulbarga district in 1952. After the reorganisation of the State, he was elected to the MysoreAssembly in 1957 from Sedam. He joined the Bhoodan movement started by Vinoba Bhave. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1968, 1974, and 1984 and had close ties with Indira Gandhi. Mr. Mallappa, was from the Kuruba caste, was responsible for getting the Congress party nomination to the present Chief Minister of Karnataka, N. Dharam Singh, and the Union Minister for Water Resources, M. Mallikarjun Kharge, to contest the Assembly elections in 1972

Hyderabad Karnataka Gandhi

In 1941, the Nizam's government arrested him and he was jailed. He represented the Hyderabad State Congress in the August 1942 Mumbai session of the party where the Quit India call was given. The day after the country gained independence in 1947, his wife Shankaramma died. But that did not deter him from taking part in the celebrations. Mr. Mallappa had the distinction of being elected President of the Hyderabad State Congress. He also fought against the Razakars of Hyderabad.

Death

Kollur Mallappa aged 99 years, died at the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Bangalore on 24 October 2004 after prolonged illness. He was one of the last links with the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi's days and the freedom struggle. He is best remembered for giving up his claim to the office of Chief Minister in 1972 when the Indian National Congress was returned to power with a thumping majority and instead installing D. Devaraj Urs as Chief Minister. He was at that time a member of the Congress Working Committee

" He was exhausted, had lost lot of blood but was smiling because we were prevented from arrest or for that matter - sure death. We have seen god in him, in our life. " - say his colleagues and their eyes grow moist in pain.

I have great pleasure in welcoming you into the hallowed portals of the vibrant and progressive Kuruba community. May I take this opportunity to THANK each and every one of you for your kind support during my tenure of service to the organization.

You are all aware that Kuruba community has by dint of hard work and strong work culture distinguished itself in various fields across the world. It is our endeavour that this dynamism and momentum is carried forward in a sustained manner so that the excellence of our community’s glory spreads to every nook and corner of the world. As President, I can only assure you that we will try to do our very best to keep the spirit of Kuruba community alive and well, the events of which will be well-chronicled in this website from time to time.

It is my earnest wish that to ensure the community’s vibrancy and potency, education and employment must be given top preference. For it is education that empowers our youth with knowledge and with knowledge comes plentiful employment opportunities. As such, we need to increase the percentage of literacy and employment, so that the public will recognize our community, and give it the respect it so richly deserves, putting it on a par with other progressive communities. It is also vital that the people who are in employment and capable of helping others must play their due roles in lending a helping hand to the disadvantaged and not so fortunate members of the community

I request you to let me know what I should do to further strengthen the organization and serve you better. I will be keenly anticipating your valued suggestions and ideas to improve the cohesiveness and richness of our community. Meanwhile, if each one of you would add one more member to the organization, it will go a long way in the service of the community.

Once again, with best wishes,