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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 …

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Forest Officials Bust Fake Podu Land Patta Issuing Racket in Mulugu
2 months ago

Forest Officials Bust Fake Podu Land Patta Issuing Racket in Mulugu

Deccan Chronicle  

Forest department officials busted a fake podu land patta issuing racket in Mulugu district. The main accused, Jatoth Badhru, 44, along with five others issued the fake pattas over past two years by appointing agents in several villages. They collected Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 from each person and took loans from various banks by producing the fake pattas and …

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. …

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Decline in forest areas as podu land cultivation grows in erstwhile Adilabad in Telangana
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Decline in forest areas as podu land cultivation grows in erstwhile Adilabad in Telangana

New Indian Express  

ADILABAD : The tussle between podu farmers and forest officials continues every rainy season in various places, resulting in a decline of forest areas in the erstwhile Adilabad district. According to forest officials, a recent survey of podu farmers revealed that most of them also have two to three forest land plots under cultivation. This led to an increase in …

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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 …

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Pregnant Gaur Killed by Illegally Laid Power line in Khammam
11 months ago

Pregnant Gaur Killed by Illegally Laid Power line in Khammam

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A pregnant Indian gaur was electrocuted by a cable illegally drawing electricity to a borewell, from an overhead 11KV line, near Regallapadu village in Khammam district. According to forest officials, a showcause notice was issued to the electricity department for allowing illegal power lines inside the reserve forest. The patch of forest land for which podu pattas were granted, …

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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 …

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Thousands of applicants worried as names missing in the patta lists for podu lands
1 year, 6 months ago

Thousands of applicants worried as names missing in the patta lists for podu lands

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Thousands of cultivators who applied for pattas for the podu lands that are in their hands for a long time are worried a lot. No information was communicated to them by the officials even as chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is expected to launch the distribution of pattas to the podu lands in Asifabad on June 24. Tribals have …

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Podu farmers to get pattas during Telangana Formation Day celebrations
1 year, 7 months ago

Podu farmers to get pattas during Telangana Formation Day celebrations

New Indian Express  

June 2: CM KCR to kick-start the State Formation Day celebrations at Gun Park June 3: Programmes to highlight the achievements in agriculture sector, including Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima. Leaders and government officials to participate in community lunch with farmers June 4: Police Suraksha Dinotsavam June 5: Telangana Vidyut Vijayotsavam June 6: Telangana Parisramika Pragathi Utsavam June 7: Saguneeti …

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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 …

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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 …

FGG warns Telangana to follow RoFR Act while reviewing podu pattas
1 year, 9 months ago

FGG warns Telangana to follow RoFR Act while reviewing podu pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Forest department officials, along with those from tribal welfare, as well as district collectors who have been involved in vetting applications for podu land pattas, were urged to strictly follow the provisions in the Recognition of Forest Rights Act of 2005 while approving applications. The FGG, which has filed a PIL in the High Court over the issue of …

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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, …

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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 …

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DFOs’ original signatures missing on new podu land pattas
1 year, 9 months ago

DFOs’ original signatures missing on new podu land pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Faced with reluctance by field-level officials of the Telangana State Forest Department to sign off on freshly received podu patta applications, the Tribal Welfare Department has hit upon a novel scheme to legalize the applications by having forest officials submit their facsimile signatures. In its letter to the then Andhra Pradesh government’s query on whether district collectors’ signatures can …

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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 …

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Eviction threat looms over migrant Gutti Koya Adivasis
2 years ago

Eviction threat looms over migrant Gutti Koya Adivasis

The Hindu  

An eerie calm pervades this tiny tribal settlement of the migrant Gutti Koya Adivasis as the clamour for their eviction from Yerrabodu grows shriller. ‘Vested interests behind hate campaign’ When asked about the resolution of the Bendalapadu Gram Panchayat to expel them from the area, a migrant tribal youth said, “Some vested elements are behind the hate campaign against us …

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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 …

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Scrutiny of podu applications amid differences between forest & revenue officials
2 years ago

Scrutiny of podu applications amid differences between forest & revenue officials

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Differences of opinion have cropped between revenue and forest departments on the guidelines over giving rights on podu lands to the claimants. While the forest department is confident that the satellite photos available with them will suffice in giving lands to podu farmers, revenue officials are saying that they were one of the evidences and not one and all. …

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Forest dept. staff urged to get back to work
2 years ago

Forest dept. staff urged to get back to work

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: All forest department officials should return to full duties and get back to protecting forests, which is their primary duty, principal chief conservator of forests, R.M. Srinivasa Rao in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district on November 21, and declared that they would not take part in Podu land pattas related grama sabhas or other meetings on the issue. During a video conference …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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