About 200 persons plough land in survey numbers 181, 133
FOR A CAUSE: Landless poor clearing shrubs in forest lands under Mavala block on Friday as part of the Bhoo Poratam
ADILABAD: Midiam Bapu Rao, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Member of Parliament from Bhadrachalam on Friday led a group of landless poor in ploughing forest land in survey number 181 and 133 in Mavala block. About 200 persons including tribals from the villages of Waghapur, Mavala, Vajjapur, Jeedipalli, Durganagar and Mallepur entered the forest land armed with axes and cleared the bushes and shrubbery as part of the Bhoo Poratam programme.
Later they ploughed a part of the land that is said to be about 300 acres in extent. Forest department personnel tried in vain to stop the clearing of bushes. Rural CI Mashooq Ali and SI T. Moses arrived on the scene and registered a case on the complaint filed by the Forest staff.
Waste lands
The MP said the lands were ploughed in the presence of Forest staff in order to prove that these were Government waste lands that need to be disbursed among the landless poor. This also proved the Government’s claim false that no lands were available for disbursal among the poor, he added.
The land in question does not belong to Forest department but it belonged to tribals who had inhabited the area since ages, Mr. Bapu Rao said. He demanded the Government to grant pattas to the persons occupying the lands.
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