‘Grant pattas to tribals cultivating forest lands’
Staff Reporter
Government for trying to crush Bhoo Poratam: CPI(M)
B.V. Raghavulu
ADILABAD: State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) B.V. Raghavulu on demanded scrapping of Section 4 of the Forest Act alleging that it deprives tribals of their lands.
He said so long as this section remainsno tribal will get pattas to the lands under cultivation.
Talking to reporters at Mancherial town while on a day’s visit to Jannaram mandal, Mr. Raghavulu also demanded Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to grant pattas to tribals who are cultivating forest lands for the past one year.
He pointed out that the Chief Minister promised to giving pattas to such lands.
In Adilabad alone, tribals are cultivating over 2.5 lakh acres of forest and Government lands for which pattas should be given immediately, he said.
Later addressing a plenum of the party’s district unit and a public meeting, the CPI (M) leader criticised the Government for trying to crush ‘Bhoo Poratam’ programme. He said not repression but grant of lands to the landless poor will solve the problem.
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