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Eviction drive to continue in Munnar

Special Correspondent

12,000 acres freed of encroachments: Minister

Scrutiny of documents, title deeds continuing
Survey operations to be intensified
in Idukki

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Revenue Minister K.P. Rajendran has refuted reports about ending of eviction of encroachers at Munnar.

In release here on Tuesday, the Minister said the eviction of encroachments at various places in Idukki district would continue.

Steps were being taken to recover land cornered by encroachers by fabrication of documents in various parts of the district, including Vagamon and Chinnakkanal.

Mr. Rajendran said that 12,000 acres of land had been freed of encroachments in the Munnar area after the evictions began in February last year. The scrutiny of allegedly false documents and title deeds were continuing. They showed that more land needed to be recovered. Legal action was also being taken, he said. The Minister said that 4.68 acres of land had been taken over by the Revenue Department in Munnar recently in six cases.

The land was taken over by a team led by Additional Commissioner of Land Revenue K.M. Ramanandan.

He said the government would intensify survey operations in Idukki district. Land being evicted of encroachers across the State was being deposited in the land bank. The process was being reviewed by him.

Review meetings

The Minister said he had attended district-level conferences in Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha and Thrissur. Reviews would be held in other districts shortly. He said the government had also initiated steps to distribute land to the poor in connection with the second anniversary of the LDF government. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan would inaugurate the programme in Kannur.

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