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‘Mo Jami Mo Diha’ eyewash: CPI(M)

BERHAMPUR: CPI(M) activists of the city held demonstration in front of the Berhampur tehsil office on Tuesday protesting against the alleged eyewash performed by the State Government through a programme called ‘Mo Jami Mo Diha’.

Members of several landless families of the city and its suburbs took part in this agitation which was led by State secretariat member of the party Ali Kishore Patnaik and other leaders including Basanta Panda, Ram Chandra Nayak, Judhisthira Panda. Mr Patnaik said the BJP-BJD Government had declared last year that all poor landless families in the State would be provided pattas under the ‘Mo Jami Mo Diha’ programme by March this year. But the landless families were still waiting for the benefits.

As per CPI(M) activists around 2,000 poor landless families of the city and its suburbs had applied fort land patta in their name from the Government under the new programme. But till now no enquiry had been made by the revenue officials regarding the application of these families.

“It proves the much-publicised programme of the State Government was nothing but an eyewash for vote politics,” alleged Mr Patnaik.

The ‘Mo Jami Mo Diha’ (My land my homestead land) programme was initiated by the State Government last year.

The aim of the programme was to intervene in cases where land of poor peasants had been taken over by other persons and distribution of land to the landless families. It was hoped that this programme would reduce land-related clashes and disputes in rural areas to a large extent, which were misused by miscreants including naxals.

“But the comparison of progress in handing over land to private companies and rural landless poor would reveal the real motive of the BJD-BJP Government,” said Mr Patnaik. According to him, the Vedanta group could be provided around 6,000 acres of prime land near Puri within months but the landless poor of the State had been waiting for homestead land since generations.

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