Withdraw Cases Against Tribal Podu Cultivators: KCR tells DGP, CS
1 year, 5 months ago

Withdraw Cases Against Tribal Podu Cultivators: KCR tells DGP, CS

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Giving huge relief to tribal podu cultivators who are getting pattas, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday instructed Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests R.M. Rao was speaking at an event after formally distributing podu pattas to some tribals at a function after inaugurating the integrated district offices complex in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district. Seasonal diseases were contained, thanks to improved medical facilities and supply of purified drinking water, the Chief Minister said, adding that a section of the media used to deliberately give negative coverage on the health situation in the past. The Chief Minister said that there were good results with regard to cultivation of land under the ‘Giri Vikas’ scheme, through which pump sets are being provided to tribal farmers.

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Forest Dept Plans Plantations on Retrieved Podu Lands
1 week, 5 days ago

Forest Dept Plans Plantations on Retrieved Podu Lands

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: The state forest department plans to develop plantations on so-called “retrieved” podu lands as part of an effort to connect fragmented forests and establish a corridor between the Tadoba Andhari and Kawal Tiger Reserves. Forest officials clarify that non-tribal cultivators can only receive pattas for podu lands under the Recognition of Forest Rights Act if they prove cultivation for …

Telangana: BRS Govt's Messy Podu Patta Drive Comes To The Fore
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana: BRS Govt's Messy Podu Patta Drive Comes To The Fore

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The podu land pattas issued by the BRS government have in several instances turned very messy, and it is learnt that in the rush to issue the pattas before the last Assembly elections, the then state administration had not even ensured availability of digital copies of the pattas with the forest department whose land was used to give pattas. …

Bhatti says Dharani Portal changed the land rights scenario in villages
5 months, 1 week ago

Bhatti says Dharani Portal changed the land rights scenario in villages

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Deputy Chief Minister and chairman of the cabinet sub-committee on Rythu Bharosa, Bhatti Vikramarka, said on Thursday that the state government would frame the modalities of its implementation with an open mind. He made it clear that the sub-committee on behalf of the state government was collecting opinions from farmers and “we will judiciously re-distribute the money collected from …

Telangana: Officials told to show restraint on Podu land issues
6 months, 1 week ago

Telangana: Officials told to show restraint on Podu land issues

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana government has sought a report on the list of beneficiaries who received podu pattas for forest land during the BRS regime, with forest minister Konda Surekha on Saturday saying that she had received reports about irregularities and selection of ineligible people. Surekha, along with panchayat raj minister Dansari Anasuya, was speaking at a meeting at the Secretariat …

Illegal Allocation of Podu Land Raises Concerns Over Forest Rights Act Implementation
1 year, 4 months ago

Illegal Allocation of Podu Land Raises Concerns Over Forest Rights Act Implementation

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The issues caused by the state government issuing pattas for podu land continues to raise concerns with doubts being expressed if the process under the RoFR Act Act, 2006) was exploited to grant housing plots illegally in forest land. The forest department is learnt to have sought this information as it “needed to know where and how much land …

KCR govt is anti-people': Bhatti
1 year, 4 months ago

KCR govt is anti-people': Bhatti

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka came down heavily against the BRS government for failing to deliver on its ‘avowed’ goals of water, funds and jobs for the people of Telangana. “Lands were taken away from 44 families of bonded labourers; the government took over 10,000 acres in Ibrahimpatnam and sold them to MNCs at Rs 5 crore per acre and …

Adivasis to continue fight for podu pattas in Telangana
1 year, 5 months ago

Adivasis to continue fight for podu pattas in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: The confrontation between the forest staff and podu cultivators is continuing, though the government launched the distribution of pattas to podu land on June 30. Adivasi leader Marasakola Sarangarao of Mamidiguda in Adilabad Rural mandal said many Adivasis had applied for certificates for 4-10 acres but had got pattas for a few guntas of land. The podu cultivators claimed …

Telangana Now Third Among States Which Have Distributed Podu Pattas
1 year, 5 months ago

Telangana Now Third Among States Which Have Distributed Podu Pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A festive atmosphere prevailed in the agency areas that cover 26 districts on Friday with the state government launching the long-pending distribution of podu land pattas for tribals. With this, Telangana would stand third among states which have distributed podu land pattas for 7.14 lakh acres, after Madhya Pradesh at 9.02 lakh acres and Chhattisgarh at 8.98 lakh acres. …

Podu Pattas from Today, Approved Claims Include FC Act Violations
1 year, 5 months ago

Podu Pattas from Today, Approved Claims Include FC Act Violations

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The distribution of podu pattas for forest land in Telangana state set to begin on Friday, could end up creating trouble for the state forest department with sources indicating that around a third of the 1,50,415 claims that have been recently approved are for forest land patches cleared after the December 2005 cut-off date imposed by the Scheduled Tribes …

KCR to distribute podu land pattas to tribals today
1 year, 5 months ago

KCR to distribute podu land pattas to tribals today

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will leave for Asifabad on Friday to kick off the distribution of podu land pattas to tribals. Rao was supposed to leave for Karimanagar on Thursday evening by helicopter and stay overnight in Karimnagar before leaving for Asifabad on Friday morning, but bad weather conditions forced the Chief Minister to put off the plan. …

Podu land for tribals a sensitive affair
1 year, 5 months ago

Podu land for tribals a sensitive affair

New Indian Express  

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had promised during his first stint in power to confer legal rights on tribals over podu lands. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006, legal rights can be granted only to tribals cultivating forest land before December 13, 2005. The state cannot give ownership to the tribals occupying forest land …

Bhatti slams KCR govt for not implementing law to protect tribal land rights
1 year, 5 months ago

Bhatti slams KCR govt for not implementing law to protect tribal land rights

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Senior Congress leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Monday condemned the Chandrashekar Rao government for not implementing the Forest Rights Act brought in by the Congress-led UPA government, in a bid to protect the rights of tribals over forest lands. But the BRS government has been systematically oppressing Adivasis and scheduled tribes, and conspired to deny them rights over podu …

Forest Department: Ensure Forest Rights Act Compliance for Podu Pattas Distribution
1 year, 6 months ago

Forest Department: Ensure Forest Rights Act Compliance for Podu Pattas Distribution

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a surprising development, just a day before Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is expected to start distributing podu pattas as per the original schedule, the state forest department has warned its officials to ensure that all approved claims for podu pattas meet the requirements of the Recognition of Forest Rights Act. Dobriyal, said all department officials should ensure …

Podu pattas to be given for 1,641 sq km of forest land
1 year, 6 months ago

Podu pattas to be given for 1,641 sq km of forest land

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government which promised to give ‘pattas’ for podu lands in the state, is expected to give user rights over occupied forest land extending to more than four lakh acres, or a little more than 1,600 sq kilometres of forest land parcels distributed in 26 districts to identified beneficiaries. According to government data, 1,50,012 claims for podu pattas …

Telangana CM Announces Plans For Patta Distribution, Gruha Laxmi
1 year, 7 months ago

Telangana CM Announces Plans For Patta Distribution, Gruha Laxmi

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday set out the schedule for the implementation of politically crucial schemes that the state Cabinet had approved on March 9 but which had seen no movement since then. At a review meeting at the Secretariat, the CM directed officials to distribute podu land pattas to tribals from June 24 to 30. The …

Tribal welfare dept accused of misleading Cabinet on podu pattas
1 year, 8 months ago

Tribal welfare dept accused of misleading Cabinet on podu pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Did the Tribal Welfare Department of the Telangana government mislead the state Cabinet on the rule positions to get approvals for the distribution of Podu land pattas covering an extent of 4,00,93 acres to fulfil the Chief Minister’s promise of pattas for those using forest land for agriculture? Yes, says the Forum for Good Governance, which in a letter …

KCR directs officials to deposit rain damage relief directly into farmers' accounts
1 year, 8 months ago

KCR directs officials to deposit rain damage relief directly into farmers' accounts

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday directed Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari and other officials that the Rs 10,000 per acre rain damage relief announced by the state government be deposited directly into farmers' bank accounts, kicking off the process of extending financial assistance to farmers hit by unseasonal rains. In another important decision reached at a review …

HC not inclined to restrain TS govt on podu land issue
1 year, 9 months ago

HC not inclined to restrain TS govt on podu land issue

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court was not inclined to restrain the state government from issuing pattas on forest land for podu cultivators, mainly from the ST communities and traditional forest dwellers, for several decades. However, the court on Monday issued notices to the state government directing it to respond to the notices by June 22, duly furnishing reasons for regularising …

Senior forest official objects to podu pattas, gets transferred
1 year, 9 months ago

Senior forest official objects to podu pattas, gets transferred

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The determination of the state government to issue pattas for podu land and an apparent decision to brook no dissent on this issue, has reportedly claimed its first victim with the summary transfer of a senior forest department officer from a district to Aranya Bhavan, the department’s headquarters in the city. Sources said that the Mulugu district forest officer, …

Satellite imagery that speaks the truth, falls by wayside in podu land patta rush
1 year, 9 months ago

Satellite imagery that speaks the truth, falls by wayside in podu land patta rush

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The forest department could have well tied itself into intractable knots over the state government’s promise of providing pattas for 11.5 lakh- odd acres of forest land for the so-called podu cultivation. With such large tracts of forest land coming under occupation suddenly — and worried about the government not being able to keep its promise of pattas to …

Podu pattas’ meeting throws up more questions than answers
2 years ago

Podu pattas’ meeting throws up more questions than answers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The one-day stock-taking meeting over the issue of providing pattas between the tribal welfare and forest department officials at MCR HRD Institute in the city, to find ‘solutions’ to ensure distribution of maximum number of such pattas to applicants, is learnt to have left more questions than answers, leaving top government functionaries wondering if the TRS government can keep …

Podu pattas promise puts forest, tribal officials in a quandary
2 years ago

Podu pattas promise puts forest, tribal officials in a quandary

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: With a self-imposed deadline of declaring beneficiaries under the pattas for podu land programme of the state government, officials involved with the exercise of vetting lakhs of applications with claims over forest land are learnt to be grappling on how to go about the task. Sources in the government, involved with the current exercise, said enormous pressure was being …

Gram sabhas clear podu land applications in officials’ absence
2 years ago

Gram sabhas clear podu land applications in officials’ absence

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Neither forest nor revenue officials are moving back from their stand on the podu land issue in Khammam and Bhadradri-Kothagudem districts. Revenue officials conducted gram sabhas and resolved the applications on podu lands. Although forest beat officers Jyothi, Satyakrishna and Ravi had to attend, the gram sabhas completed the work in their absence. Ironically, the applications have been okayed …

State warned 4 years ago of serious violence over podu pattas
2 years ago

State warned 4 years ago of serious violence over podu pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana state government, facing the ire of the state forest department officials and their families following the brutal murder of forest range officer Ch. The department also informed the state government in July 2018 that for three years prior to 2018, MLAs, MPs, and ministers, including minister for environment, forests, science, and technology A. Indrakaran Reddy, had stated …

Podu land pattas: Forest staff’s rift with govt heading for flashpoint
2 years ago

Podu land pattas: Forest staff’s rift with govt heading for flashpoint

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Clear battle lines are emerging between the state government and the state forest department on the podu land pattas issue with the latter making it clear that it will stick to the Recognition of Forest Rights Act’s cut-off date of December 13, 2005. Officials said the Act is very clear, irrespective of what the government may claim when it …

Podu pattas promise: Forest officials feel useless, abandoned
2 years, 1 month ago

Podu pattas promise: Forest officials feel useless, abandoned

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana forest department officials, particularly those at the district level and in the field, are feeling abandoned, crushed, and essentially useless, having been placed at the epicentre of the now-raging podu lands pattas controversy. Officials were also taken aback by minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar's comments to the media at Srinivasa Rao's funeral, in which he stated that the government …

Politics over podu lands: Axe falls on forest officials
2 years, 1 month ago

Politics over podu lands: Axe falls on forest officials

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In many ways, it was only a matter of time before someone was killed as a result of the Telangana government's promise to illegal forest land occupiers that they would be given pattas for the land under the guise of referring to the illegal occupation of forest land as part of the larger Podu lands issue. To begin with, …

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue
2 years, 1 month ago

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue

Deccan Chronicle  

KOTHAGUDEM: The ongoing conflict over podu lands took a violent turn on Tuesday, with tribals of the Gothikoya community hacking a forest range officer to death in Bendalampadu of Kothagudem district. Srinivasa Rao, and section officer Rama Rao were inspecting saplings planted by the forest department in Chandrugonda mandal. Rama Rao said that tribals were spotted cutting down saplings planted …

Forest staff face double whammy in safeguarding land
2 years, 1 month ago

Forest staff face double whammy in safeguarding land

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Officials of the forest department claimed immense pressure in undertaking the podu land survey, with MLAs, politicians and farmers considering forest officials their ‘enemies’ and the police, revenue officials and the administration not cooperating in protecting forest land. In an incident on July 8 this year, two women forest staff and eight Adivasi women were injured in a clash …

Congress demands scrapping of ill-conceived Dharani
2 years, 1 month ago

Congress demands scrapping of ill-conceived Dharani

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Urging the state government to resolve issues that have cropped up after the launch of Dharani portal, the Congress found fault with the way private companies were involved in the exercise which had put at stake confidential information. Led by PCC chief A. Revanth Reddy, a delegation of Congress leaders represented the matter to Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar in …

Podu land conflict takes ugly turn in Khammam village
2 years, 2 months ago

Podu land conflict takes ugly turn in Khammam village

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Podu land issue in Khammam district took an ugly turn on Saturday when forest officials faced off in Gubbagurthi of Konijerla mandal with villagers in an effort to prevent encroachment. Officials said that early on Saturday, around 200 villagers tried to encroach on the forest land in compartments 57 and 58 in Gubbagurthi by cutting down about 120 …

Podu lands issue: Govt has lenient view towards applicants
2 years, 3 months ago

Podu lands issue: Govt has lenient view towards applicants

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Forest officials fear pressure from the politicians and higher officials while conducting scrutiny and field-level verification of the applications on podu lands. The collectors were in favour of alienating forest land.” Village forest rights committees, sub-division level committees and district level committees will be given more weight than to the opinion of forest officials in the scrutiny. Another forest …

Fate of non-tribals seeking Podu lands hangs in balance
2 years, 3 months ago

Fate of non-tribals seeking Podu lands hangs in balance

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government's much-promised solution to the vexed Podu land rights issue in Telangana is not expected to have a significant positive impact on more than five lakh people who applied for rights over 13 lakh acres of forest land. This is because the Recognition of Forest Rights Act, 2006 makes it clear that non-tribals claiming Podu rights will …

ST Commission Chairman promises forest access to tribals
2 years, 3 months ago

ST Commission Chairman promises forest access to tribals

Deccan Chronicle  

NELLORE: Andhra Pradesh State ST Commission chairman Dr Kumbha Ravibabu said forest officials are obstructing the movement of tribes into 92-acre forest lands in Mannangidinne area of Kavali constituency while assuring to resolve the problem after discussing with the higher officials. The Commission chairman asked the officials to support the poor tribes on humanitarian grounds for including them in the …

TS pushes ‘podu’ ball into centre’s court
2 years, 4 months ago

TS pushes ‘podu’ ball into centre’s court

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Under pressure over distribution of “podu” lands to long-time cultivators of lands adjoining forests, TRS government has put the ball into BJP-led central government’s court. The government has asked the centre to change the cut-off date of December 13, 2005 mentioned in the Forest Rights Act 2006, enacted by the then UPA government led by Congress, so that more …

Stopped tribals from grabbing land: TS Forest dept.
2 years, 5 months ago

Stopped tribals from grabbing land: TS Forest dept.

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A day after forest department staff and tribals clashed over the podu land issue in Mancherial district, the department has clarified that it is only trying to stop encroachment of the Kawal Tiger Reserve. Eight adivasi women and two women forest staff were injured in clashes at Koya Poshaguda in Dandepally mandal of Mancherial district on Friday. As per …

Podu cultivators and forest staff clash over rights on podu lands
2 years, 5 months ago

Podu cultivators and forest staff clash over rights on podu lands

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: With the onset of rains, the podu land issue created a tense situation in the erstwhile Adilabad district and people feel that it is high time the state government intervened and resolved the issue. In the latest clash between forest officials and tribals, two women forest staff and eight adivasi women were injured over the podu lands issue at …

Give podu land pattas: Bandi
2 years, 5 months ago

Give podu land pattas: Bandi

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday asked the state government to distribute pattas for Podu lands during the state-wide Revenue Sadassus starting from July 15. In a letter to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, state BJP president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar said the meetings, which are being organised and conducted by the revenue department, should …

Congress blockade on Tuesday for resolving podu lands issue
3 years, 2 months ago

Congress blockade on Tuesday for resolving podu lands issue

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: DCC president Puvvalla Durga Prasad lashed out at the injustice being meted out to podu farmers with the forcible take over of their lands by forest officials and police harassing them with false cases. “The government is getting back podu lands in the name of Harith Haaram and putting adivasis in a critical situation. The DCC president said that …

Forest staff seeks permanent solution to podu land issue
3 years, 2 months ago

Forest staff seeks permanent solution to podu land issue

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Not only podu farmers but even forest officials, particularly field-level officers, who are to retrieve forest land from encroachers, are expecting a permanent solution from the cabinet sub-committee that has been constituted to look into the issue. A Venkateswarlu, a forest range officer of Sattupalli, said that they are retrieving encroached forest land one stretch at a time after …

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