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BRS Built Facilities for All Classes: CM KCR
1 year, 1 month ago

BRS Built Facilities for All Classes: CM KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday said his government will give ownership title to non-tribals for the podu land and agency land. It extended welfare schemes for all the communities in the last nine years and it is the only Telangana state which is giving 24-hour power supply in the country. He criticised the Congress for describing Rythu …

Brs Rythu Bandhu Bandhu
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. …

Tribal Telangana Minister Harish Rao Rao Distributed
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. …

Tribal Chief Rao Pattas
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. …

Forest Land Podu Land Pattas
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 …

Centre Sensitive Affair
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 …

Rights Congress Land Tribal Forest Lands Bhatti
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 …

Land Forest State Officials Department Forest Land Letter
CM KCR to Visit Districts to Distribute 2BHKs, Podu Pattas
1 year, 6 months ago

CM KCR to Visit Districts to Distribute 2BHKs, Podu Pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will continue his tours of districts after the conclusion of celebrations of the Tenth State Formation Day on June 22. He will visit districts to distribute podu land pattas to tribals. BRS sources said that the Chief Minister will visit Asifabad on June 24 and launch the distribution of podu land pattas to tribals. …

Districts Pattas
CM KCR to issue pattas to podu lands in Asifabad on June 24
1 year, 6 months ago

CM KCR to issue pattas to podu lands in Asifabad on June 24

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is likely to launch the issue of pattas to podu lands at a public meeting in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district headquarters on June 24. The state government has taken a decision to issue pattas to the podu lands as part of the decennial celebration of Telangana Formation Day. Rao will also formally inaugurate the …

Rao Komaram Bheem
Telangana To Distribute 4 Lakh Acres of Podu Land to 1.5 Lakh Tribals, says KCR
1 year, 6 months ago

Telangana To Distribute 4 Lakh Acres of Podu Land to 1.5 Lakh Tribals, says KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Friday that Telangana's per capita income grew to Rs 3.17 lakh from Rs 1.24 lakh, even as the Gross State Domestic Product went up to Rs 13 lakh crore from a little over Rs 5 lakh in the past nine years, Narrating Telangana's achievements since its formation on June 2, 2014, Rao …

Telangana State Rao Lakh Gsdp
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 …

Bandhu Gruha Laxmi
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 …

BSP state president says feudal forces destroyed forests but blame Adivasis
1 year, 10 months ago

BSP state president says feudal forces destroyed forests but blame Adivasis

Deccan Chronicle  

UTNOOR : State president of the Bahujan Samaj Party, RS Praveen Kumar, hsa criticised Chief Minister K Chadrasekhar Rao for branding the state's Adivasis as encroachers. Praveen said KCR must know adivasis have the right to make use of the natural resources as per the provisions in the 5th Schedule of the Constitution. He said KCR and the state government …

State Bsp Kcr Adivasi Adivasis Feudal Forces
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 …

Eviction Telangana Migrant Forest State Gutti Area
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 …

Forest State Officer Staff Forest Staff Podu Lands Resuming Field
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, …

Issue Mla Forest Land Chhattisgarh Pattas Trs Telangana Forest
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 Rao Rama Rao Srinivasa Rao Fro Gothikoya
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 …

Land Forest Officials Forest Land Forest Officials Mandal Forest Staff
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 …

Tribal Forest Khammam Srinivas Rao Fro Chandrugonda Errabodu
KCR announces 10 per cent quota for STs from next week
2 years, 3 months ago

KCR announces 10 per cent quota for STs from next week

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday announced that the government would enhance reservations to 10 per cent for Scheduled Tribes in education and employment from next week, from six per cent at present. For this reason, I have decided to issue a GO next week implementing the 10 per cent quota for STs, Rao said at a mammoth …

Reservations Telangana Minister Centre Cent Rao Modi
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 …

Land Rights Claims Forest Forest Land Act Acres Total Claims
TS Cabinet extends Dalit Bandhu reach, to seek legal opinion on clipping Guv\'s wings
2 years, 3 months ago

TS Cabinet extends Dalit Bandhu reach, to seek legal opinion on clipping Guv\'s wings

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state Cabinet on Saturday decided to extend Dalit Bandhu scheme to an additional 500 beneficiaries in each of the 118 Assembly constituencies. After an elaborate discussion on the pending podu lands issue, the Cabinet asked revenue, forest and tribal welfare departments to hold coordination meetings in their respective districts under the chairmanship of the in-charge ministers to resolve …

Cabinet Extends
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 …

Rights State Government Forest State Lands Podu Forest Lands
5-hour Sadak Bandh disrupts highway traffic
3 years, 2 months ago

5-hour Sadak Bandh disrupts highway traffic

The Hindu  

Hordes of cadres of the Left and various other Opposition parties, a clutch of farmers’ and mass organisations laid siege to the national and state highways at 21 different locations in the erstwhile composite Khammam district on Tuesday as part of “Sadak Bandh” demanding sanction of pattas for podu farmers as per the Forest Rights Act, 2006. The five-hour “Sadak …

Fra Bandh Khammam State Secretary Podu Farmers Sadak Sadak Bandh