As in step with CGNet Swara Foundation (an NGO primarily based in Raipur), when the Naxal violence escalated around 2004-05, about 16,000 tribals (5000 families) were uprooted from Chhattisgarh. Around 3000 families moved to around 150 villages within the forests of the neighboring state Andhra Pradesh, which after the bifurcation of the state, contains parts of Telangana.
