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Kodagu Asthitva Horata Samiti comes into being

Staff Correspondent

Madikeri: The new Kodagu Asthitva Horata Samiti, with Bangalore as its base, will organise a Vidhana Soudha Chalo before the end of the Legislature Session to find a lasting solution to the vexed Bane land issue and other problems being faced by Kodagu district, Matanda C. Monnappa, president of the Ákhila Kodava Samaja, said here on Friday.

Speaking to presspersons, Mr. Monnappa, who also heads the Kodagu Bhoo Hiduvalidarara Samanvaya Samiti (Kodagu Landholders Coordination Committee), said circulars issued by the Revenue Secretary on October 31, 2006 and again on January 16, 2007, were serious blows to the landholders in the district. It stated that landholders did not have right over Bane lands. A Kodagu bandh was organised to demand withdrawal of the two circulars.

But the communication from the Government to withdraw the circulars by stipulating two conditions on June 30 had further aggravated the matter, Mr. Monnappa said.

There was a need to express concern over the problems of the district in one voice, he said. This was why the next course of action was being chalked out by the samiti in Bangalore. Support of all organisations, individuals, associations, fighting for the Bane lands cause had been elicited, he claimed.

The support of former Ministers from Kodagu, present and former MLAs and MLCs, presidents of all prominent social organisations in the district were being sought to argue Kodagu’s case as one voice, he said.

The president of the Kodagu Gowda Federation, Totambailu M. Nanaiah, said Kodagu had remained a neglected region since its merger with the Mysore State in 1956 and the plight continued even to this day. The Government could be under the feeling that land problems of the people of Kodagu pertained only to the rich, which was wrong.

The people of Kodagu were in possession of their lands since centuries and no one could take away their rights, Mr. Nanaiah said. Over 90 per cent of the people in the district were small and marginal farmers.

How could the migrants grab attention to avail themselves of all types of benefits while the principal inhabitants remained shunned by the Government, he wondered.

Addanda C. Cariappa, one of the members, stated that a meeting of the samiti would held on the Bangalore Kodava Samaja premises on Monday. The problems concerned all principal inhabitants of the district, he said.

Mr. Cariappa and Mr. Monnappa alleged that certain organisations were attempting to take the problems to Delhi with a view to solving them. It was not necessary. Mr. Nanaiah agreed saying a solution could be found within the purview of the State Government’s authority.

The vice-president of the Federation of Kodava Samaja, Suguna Muthanna, the general secretary of the Akhila Kodava Samaja, Koniyanda Vitta Devaiah, and the convenor of the Kodagu Heggade Samaja, Sara Chengappa, were present.

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