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Tribals fight for their land
Tribals' fight for their land
The Hindu May 3, 1997
By R.J.Rajendra Prasad
TRIBALS holding a police party hostage for a day to prevent the arrest of their chieftain and others - injuring five persons with bows and arrows during a clash - may sound like a tale from the pre independence days. But this is what happened recently in the villages of Polavaram. Jeelugumilli and Buttayagudem mandals of West Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. The Koya tribesmen are resisting the harvesting of their crops by non-tribals, demanding that the Land Transfer Regulation 1 of 1970 (which prohibits the transfer of ownership of land in the Agency areas except to a tribal) be enforced to letter and in spirit.
The situation in West Godavari district has become tense because of the intervention by a non-government organisation (NGO) called SAKTI, which has been active in the area for the past three years. The 10 social activists working for SAKTI are Koya tribesmen themselves, and they have succeeded in making the tribal families aware of the regulations in force in their favour. The Director, Dr.P.Sivaramakrishna, who took his doctorate degree on the theme of tribal folk songs, got the land record of 1932, when the last survey and settlement was done, partaining to the Scheduled Areas of the distrct. His team goes to the villages reading the names of the owners of the land under survey numbers that can be identified today, and the tribals have become aware that their grandfathers owned the land after all and that now they have the right of ownership.
The Koya tribals have become bold after three years of a sustained struggle, having realised that the law is in their favour. But the absence of any NGO working in their areas perhaps explains why the Scheduled Areas of Adilabad. Karimnagar, Warangal , Khammam and Visakhapatnam are quiet today." |
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Apply for copies of judgments
Office of the Settlement officer, KOVVURU
Memo. Roc. No. A.3/96 Dt. 03-05-1997
M E MO
As per the directions of the Honorable High Court issued in W.P.No. 7261 of 1997 Dt. 10-04-1997, the Director of SAKTI organization is hereby informed that there is no application filed by the SAKTI Organization for supplying certified copies of Judgments is pending with this office. If the SAKTI Organization required this office to supply certified copies, copy application may be submitted in the prescribed form as per order 20 rule 20 of CPC accompanied by the requisite copy stamps with a supporting third party affidavit with full particulars of the Judgments required. If the applications are filed they will be considered.
Settlement Officer,
KOVVUR.
To
The Director,
SAKTI Organization,
Rampachodavaram, E.G. Dt.
Copy to Sri P. Dinakar, Tribal Advocate,
Ramachandraopeta, ELURU - 534 002. |
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Involve the tribals or their representative in the survey operations
T. S. APPA RAO, I.A.S.,
Commissioner of Tribal Welfare.
Telugu Samkshema Bhavan,
Masab Tank,
HYDERABAD ,
PHONE:OFF:3390487,3391486
Res:3314291.
Fax: 040-3315236.
E-Mail: comrw@hyd.ap.nic.in
D.O.Rc.No.671/97/TRI/PRCell , Dated: 26-06-1997
Dear Dr. Sivaramakrishna,
Please refer to your letter dated 12-06-'97 regarding survey operations in West Godavari Agency. I have discussed this issue with the Project Officer, ITDA, Kotaramachandrapuram during the recent Regional Project Officers Meeting held at Bhadrachalam and requested him to involve the Tribals or their Representatives in the survey operations. I also enclose herewith a copy of the guidelines issued for conducting verification of the claims of Tribals and non-Tribals for your information.
With regards
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
(T.S. APPA RAO)
To
Dr.P. Sivaramakrishna,
SAKTI,
RAMPACHODAVARAM 533 288,
East Godavari District, |
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