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 by them and a heating argument ensued, following which they attacked the FRO. Chief Conservator of Forest Bhimla Naik, district forest officer Siddhartha Vikram Singh, and forest range officer Radhika visited the hospital.

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A Kerala village heaves sigh of relief after three women missing in dense forest rescued after 15-hour search
3 weeks, 4 days ago

A Kerala village heaves sigh of relief after three women missing in dense forest rescued after 15-hour search

The Hindu  

After over 15 hours of frenetic search during which an entire village was on tenterhooks, the three women who had gone missing in a dense forest at Attikalam in Anakkayam division of Kuttampuzha panchayat in Kothamangalam in Ernakulam district of Kerala were tracked down almost 6 km deep inside the forest around 6.30 a.m. on Friday. A protracted search by …

Telangana remembers martyrs who died to protect its forests
3 months, 1 week ago

Telangana remembers martyrs who died to protect its forests

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Telangana marked Forest Martyrs Day to pay tribute to the forest staff who have lost their lives protecting the state's forests and wildlife on September 11. Between 2014-15 and 2023-24, forest staff have managed numerous cases, including seizing timber worth Rs 58.64 crore and collecting a compounding fee of Rs 128.94 crore. He praised the Vanamahotsava Programme for its …

Two forest officials attacked by mob in in Andhra's Palnadu
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Two forest officials attacked by mob in in Andhra's Palnadu

New Indian Express  

GUNTUR: Two forest department officials were injured in an attack by relatives of a smuggler in Veldurthi mandal, Palnadu district, on Monday. In response, Palnadu district authorities have heightened surveillance in the forest areas to curb illegal animal poaching. Spanning 1.5 lakh hectares, the district’s forest cover has seen previous smuggling activities, including a recent case involving six individuals smuggling …

Telangana | Swift action by forest squad thwarts poaching bid
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana | Swift action by forest squad thwarts poaching bid

The Hindu  

A six-member inter-State poachers’ gang was busted by an alert Forest squad on Saturday midnight in Kanakagiri reserve forests in Thallada range of Khammam district. The swift action by the forest squad helped foil a poaching bid and led to the arrest of all the six members of the gang and seizure of a sniper rifle, a knife, an axe …

Illegal tree felling in Belur: Forest Department suspends four officials, recommends action against IFoS officer
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Illegal tree felling in Belur: Forest Department suspends four officials, recommends action against IFoS officer

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has suspended four officers of Hassan district and recommended disciplinary action against the Deputy Conservator of Forests on charges of dereliction of duty following the illegal felling of 126 trees at Nandagodanahalli in Belur taluk. Further, the Forest Department recommended the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms take action against D. Mohan Kumar, DCF of Hassan, as …

8 forest dept officials attacked by villagers in Karnataka
1 year, 2 months ago

8 forest dept officials attacked by villagers in Karnataka

Hindustan Times  

Belagavi A total of 16 vehicles were damaged by the villagers. Eight personnel of the state forest department, including the range forest officer were allegedly attacked by villagers, who were opposing a survey conducted by the department of the encroached forest land in Belagavi district, officials said on Monday. According to the officials, the villagers of the Gokak taluk attacked …

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. …

Forest officials narrowly evade axe-wielding Guttikoya tribals
1 year, 9 months ago

Forest officials narrowly evade axe-wielding Guttikoya tribals

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Forest officials had a narrow escape on Tuesday, after being chased by axe-wielding tribals of the Guttikoya community while carrying out trenching work in the forests between Thadvai and Kothaguda mandals. Wazahath of Kothaguda had ordered officials in the Ootai forest area to visit Buddha Gadda and undertake trenching work on podu land which was being cultivated by the …

Fear of eviction looms large over Gutti Koya families of Errabodu in Bhadradri Kothagudem district
2 years ago

Fear of eviction looms large over Gutti Koya families of Errabodu in Bhadradri Kothagudem district

The Hindu  

Fear of eviction looms large over around 45 migrant tribal families of Gutti Koya tribe living in the Errabodu forest area in the vicinity of Bendalapadu village in Chandrugonda mandal a day after the forest department officials served eviction notices on them. The forest department’s move to evict the Gutti Koya tribals from Errabodu forest area follows a resolution passed …

Gutti Koya tribe, stigmatised and persecuted post the FRO’s murder
2 years ago

Gutti Koya tribe, stigmatised and persecuted post the FRO’s murder

The Hindu  

Gutti Koya tribe may have become the target of increased persecution post the murder of Forest Range Officer Ch.Srinivas Rao, if the latest resolution by the Bendalapadu village panchayat in Chandrugonda mandal of Bhadradri Kothagudem district is any proof. The resolution, approved and stamped with the panchayat seal, unanimously condemns the murder of the FRO, and decides to excommunicate the …

Telangana govt not in favour of giving guns to foresters
2 years ago

Telangana govt not in favour of giving guns to foresters

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The demand of forest officials, particularly those working in the field, for firearms for protection from deadly attacks from encroachers, is not expected to be fulfilled; at least not in the immediate future. Despite the vociferous demand, Telangana police, as well as the state government, are learnt to be reluctant and not in favour of giving firearms to forest …

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 …

Forest staff demands security before resuming field work
2 years, 1 month ago

Forest staff demands security before resuming field work

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Pained over losing a colleague and attacks on others going unabated, Telangana forest service officers have decided to take a tough stand and demanded that the state government take immediate steps, including providing arms to frontline staff to prevent further attacks. M. Raja Ramana Reddy, general secretary of State Forest Service Officers Association, told Deccan Chronicle that a delegation …

Slain forest official laid to rest in Telangana
2 years, 1 month ago

Slain forest official laid to rest in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: The last rites of Chandrugonda forest range officer Chalmala Srinivasa Rao, who was killed in a violent attack by GothiKoya tribals on Tuesday, were performed with state honours at Eerlapudi village of Raghunathapalem mandal here on Wednesday. The mourners raised slogans like ‘Srinivasa Rao Amar Rahe Hain’ and ‘We want justice’ even as his last rites were performed amid …

Attack on FRO done in a fraction of seconds, says eyewitness
2 years, 1 month ago

Attack on FRO done in a fraction of seconds, says eyewitness

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: “The attack on forest range officer CH Srinivasa Rao took place in a fraction of seconds. Another Gothikoya sliced his neck,” section officer Rama Rao, who went along with the deceased FRO said. Rama Rao said, “We noticed the cattle of Gothikoyas grazing in the plantation and asked the tribals not to disturb the plantation. Later, another person cut …

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 …

FRO death: CM KCR announces Rs 50 lakh exgratia, job to kin
2 years, 1 month ago

FRO death: CM KCR announces Rs 50 lakh exgratia, job to kin

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao expressed deep shock and sorrow over the death of forest range officer Srinivasa Rao, who was attacked by Guthikoya tribals in Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Tuesday. The CM asked DGP M. Mahendar Reddy to take legal action to ensure that Srinivasa Rao's attackers were punished strictly. The CM directed officials to extend full salary …

FRO killed allegedly by Gutti Koya tribals in Bhadradri Kothagudem district
2 years, 1 month ago

FRO killed allegedly by Gutti Koya tribals in Bhadradri Kothagudem district

The Hindu  

A Forest Range Officer was brutally killed allegedly by a group of Gutti Koya Adivasis with axes and sickles over a “podu land” issue in Errabodu forest area in Chandrugonda mandal of Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Tuesday. According to sources, Chandrugonda FRO Challamalla Srinivas Rao, 42, who suffered multiple deep stab injuries on his neck and chest in the …

Forest officials charged with murdering tribal man
2 years, 2 months ago

Forest officials charged with murdering tribal man

Hindustan Times  

Murder and other serious charges have been levelled against 17 forest department staff in Mysuru district after a tribal man died allegedly due to torture in their custody, police said on Thursday. Police said the forest department had nabbed three people, who belong to a tribal community, from Hosahalli Haadi on Monday over charges of illegally hunting and later selling …

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 …

Women staff worried as forest wing gears up for Haritha Haram in podu lands
2 years, 8 months ago

Women staff worried as forest wing gears up for Haritha Haram in podu lands

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Women employees in the forest department working in the field face a threat to their lives while the department gears up to plant trees under Haritha Haram on disputed podu lands. There are allegations that senior officers were pushing women employees to the field whenever villagers staged a protest against plantations on podu or disputed lands. Many women have …

Locals thrash forest officials fearing takeover of podu land
3 years, 8 months ago

Locals thrash forest officials fearing takeover of podu land

Deccan Chronicle  

KOTHAGUDEM: Three forest beat officers were thrashed and one of them tied to a tree in D-Kothuru forest in the limits of Chintaguppa village of Dummugudem mandal in Bhadradri district on Monday. According to available details, the officers Sodi Rajesh, Hussain and Vijaya went to Compartment-46 in D-Kothuru forest beat area to level the 27-hectare forest land to raise seedlings …

Tribal dies in Madhya Pradesh, family members allege harassment by forest officer
4 years, 5 months ago

Tribal dies in Madhya Pradesh, family members allege harassment by forest officer

Hindustan Times  

Villagers in Dhana area of Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh staged a road blockade on Sunday morning and placed the dead body of a tribal on the road, the police said. They accused a forest range officer Devesh Gautam of subjecting the tribal, Maniram Gond, to harassment in connection with a seizure case. Public Works Department minister Gopal Bhargava joined …

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