Salem: Members of the Thamizhaga Adivasi Amaippugalin Kootamaippu (TAAK) have urged the Tamil Nadu Government to implement the Forest Rights Act 2006 uniformly.
The members claimed that Union Government had already passed the act while many states, including Tamil Nadu, were showing little interest to implement the same.
A few had started implementing in a piecemeal approach.
They said that in Tamil Nadu while the district administrations of Tiruvannamalai, Namakkal, Dindigul and Coimbatore had sought claim petitions from village committees to identify the rights of tribals and forest dwellers under the provisions of the act, Erode, Salem, Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts were yet to initiate the process.
They said that Salem district where tribals are living in more numbers was yet to initiate any action in this regard. This attitude would deprive them of the rights enshrined in the act.
Hence, the problems concerning Suriyur where the forest officials forcefully evicted the tribals and forest dwellers, took place due to this. The district administrations, they demanded, must distribute pattas to those who were raising crops in wastelands in hills for many years. Salem must take steps to issue pattas immediately. The district administrations of Namakkal and Tiruvannamalai had already started receiving applications from the concerned in this regard, they claimed. They also urged that Government to distribute free two-acre land to hill dwellers.
P. Jegannathan presided over the agitation in which tribals from Salem and adjoining districts took part.
Source: The Hindu
The members claimed that Union Government had already passed the act while many states, including Tamil Nadu, were showing little interest to implement the same.
A few had started implementing in a piecemeal approach.
They said that in Tamil Nadu while the district administrations of Tiruvannamalai, Namakkal, Dindigul and Coimbatore had sought claim petitions from village committees to identify the rights of tribals and forest dwellers under the provisions of the act, Erode, Salem, Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts were yet to initiate the process.
They said that Salem district where tribals are living in more numbers was yet to initiate any action in this regard. This attitude would deprive them of the rights enshrined in the act.
Hence, the problems concerning Suriyur where the forest officials forcefully evicted the tribals and forest dwellers, took place due to this. The district administrations, they demanded, must distribute pattas to those who were raising crops in wastelands in hills for many years. Salem must take steps to issue pattas immediately. The district administrations of Namakkal and Tiruvannamalai had already started receiving applications from the concerned in this regard, they claimed. They also urged that Government to distribute free two-acre land to hill dwellers.
P. Jegannathan presided over the agitation in which tribals from Salem and adjoining districts took part.
Source: The Hindu
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