Daijiworld Media Network–Udupi (EP)
Udupi, Mar 10: “The revenue department will pass orders regarding issue of title deeds in respect of agricultural land and house sites that have been encroached, to beneficiaries under rules 94C and 94CC. The orders will come to the rescue of such applicants",” said state revenue minister, Kagodu Thimmappa.
He was addressing the meeting held in the office of district deputy commissioner here on Thursday March 9, to review progress in the disposal of cases related to form Nos. 50, 53, 94C and 94CC. “He added that surplus government land will be identified under the special rights act and distributed among beneficiaries.
“Ammendment order regarding granting of pasture land has been issued and it has been since received,” deputy commissioner stated.
“The cabinet sub-committee is conducting review of Kumki and deemed forest land. A decision will be taken within the next 15 days and orders will be issued. The Supreme Court has declared that Kumki land belongs to the government. Therefore a circular will be sent in this respect. The instructions have to be implemented thereafter in Toto",” he said to the department officials.
“It is possible for jurisdictional forest committees to receive applications even now under Forest Rights Act. A circular to exempt pasture has been already sent. Tahsildars should read it carefully and implement the instructions. If eligible beneficiaries have not submitted their applications yet due to ignorance, applications can be accepted from such people even now,"” he instructed the tahsildars.
“The minister asked deputy commissioner, Priyanka Mary Francis, to provide information regarding services available in Bapuji centres. The minister asserted that there is no scarcity of funds for drought, drinking water and natural calamities. He requested her to prepare an estimate and send it across to the government.
“If the forest rights committee follows Shivamogga model, the land issues can be sorted out to some extent”, he felt. He assured that a separate meeting will be held to solve the problems in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts on this issue.
Discussions on Podi free villages, pension adalat, social security programmes, surveyors, approval of posts, and reservation of land for students hostels were held at the meeting.
Thimmappa asked the panchayats to work harder and directed the tahsildars to go through the circulars and keep the people concerned informed.
District in charge minister, Pramod Madhwaraj, MLAs, Vinay Kumar Sorake and Haladi Srinivasa Shetty and KSRTC chairman, Gopal Poojary, brought to the notice of the minister Akrama Sakrama committee sittings and problems of people under his jurisdiction.
Additional deputy commissioner, Anuradha, assistant commissioner, Shilpa Nag, Akrama Sakrama committee president, Ashok Kumar Shetty, all district level officers, tahsildars and taluk panchayat executive officers were present at the meeting.
In Mangaluru
The minister also chaired a progress review meeting of revenue officers and other district level officers at the office of Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner on Thursday March 9. Noting that it has been 19 years since Akrama-Sakrama scheme was implemented, he asked officials to dispose all pending applications for regularization of encroached government land in a time bound manner. He asked them to pool together all applications pertaining to a single survey number and also all applications from a single village and dispose them off in batches. "RTC and cultivation certificate should be issued immediately to the beneficiaries," he instructed.
Thimmappa expressed readiness to form additional committees wherever applications pending are too many. Deputy commissioner, Dr Jagadeesh, informed that 4,973 applications are pending in Bantwal, 4,692 in Beltangady, 5,738 in Puttur, 4,165 in Kadaba, 2,017 in Moodbidri, 644 in Sullia, and 39 in Mangaluru taluk. He said that 44,063 out of 76,650 applications received have been disposed off. Thimmappa asked taluk panchayat executive officers and panchayat development officers to conduct surveys in every village and accept applications on the spot from those who have not already filed applications. He wanted the applications to be handled and disposed off at the village level and issuance of title deeds forthwith, and fixed time limit of six months for this to happen. He asked the officials to check for cases in which someone else is living in the land sanctioned to beneficiaries.
Kagodu promised to discuss with the department concerned about the proposal to set up a 100-bed permanent rehabilitation centre for endosulfan affected persons. He said he would hold separate meeting with the deputy commissioner at Bengaluru about problem of land under proforma 9/11.
MLA, Abhay Chandra Jain, was present.