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Dalits to stage dharna for patta certificates

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The Dalit Welfare Association will stage a dharna near Indira Park on January 23 demanding issue of patta certificates to those tilling the land in Survey No. 240/1 in Mamadipally village of Saroornagar Mandal in Ranga Reddy district.

Recently several families were dispossessed from the land by the Revenue authoritieshe said and added that some of them were even arrested on the charge of land grabbing, said N. Balaraj, general secretary of the Association.

He told press persons here on Sunday that for the last 50 years Dalit families were doing farming on the 53-acre land and paying taxes regularly.

Even their names were mentioned in the revenue records.

But of late they were not being allowed to cultivate the lands.

Notified area

A representation was given to the Ranga Reddy Collector and the latter informed that it was a notified area and the land could not be assigned to them, Mr. Balaraj said.

Mr. Balaraj urged the government to issue pattas to all those tilling the land under the fourth phase of land distribution programme.

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