KHAMMAM: The Sathupalli MLA, Jalagam Venkata Rao, has called for a comprehensive action plan to find a solution to the land issue in the scheduled area village of Dammapet and Aswaraopet mandals.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he wanted a special task force to be constituted comprising of the special deputy collector, Assistant Director (land records), a survey team and the police to handle the issue.

He sought a thorough survey of land holdings in problematic revenue villages. He said the problem mainly pertained to the land owned by the Government.

`Records tampered'

The revenue records were tampered with over the years in order to safeguard the interests of the certain influential people, he alleged. Though tribes were issued pattas in some villages, the land was not demarcated. They were not given physical possession of the land either.

Non-tribals involved were mostly marginal and small farmers with less than five acres of land. They had bought the land after the scheduled area regulation 1/70 came into effect. Tribals were out to fight for lands in possession of non-tribals in violation of the regulation. He said the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, had already been apprised of the situation.

He said lands involved in the dispute also included ceiling lands, bhoodan lands, conditional patta lands and bancharai lands. Besides a careful study of the situation, a multi-pronged approach involving the revenue and the ITDA was required.

He said the land belonging to non-tribals and occupied by tribals should be paid for by the Government. He said the development of tribals and non-tribals would be possible once the land issue was resolved.

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