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Forest Dept Plans Plantations on Retrieved Podu Lands
1 week, 6 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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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, …

Forest Land
Despite podu push, BRS failed to impress forest dwellers in Telangana
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Despite podu push, BRS failed to impress forest dwellers in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The distribution of podu land pattas by the previous BRS-led government, particularly in the 11 Assembly constituencies reserved for Scheduled Tribes communities failed to elicit desired results for the party in the Assembly elections. Although the BRS government had set in motion the process of granting podu pattas in 2021, it was only in June 2023 that the then …

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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 …

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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
₹426 Cr Rythu Bandhu Funds Needed for Podu Pattas
1 year, 5 months ago

₹426 Cr Rythu Bandhu Funds Needed for Podu Pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana state government will need to provide an additional ₹426,37,90,000 a year towards Rythu Bandhu cash incentive to the podu patta claims that have been approved for distribution beginning on Friday. According to a June 24 communication from the commissioner of agriculture to all district collectors, the commissioner of tribal welfare had informed that a total of 1,50,415 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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Groundwork for patta distribution in full swing
1 year, 10 months ago

Groundwork for patta distribution in full swing

The Hindu  

The District Level Committee has approved approximately 44,000 claims over 1,38,000 acres of forest land from members of Scheduled Tribe communities under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006, so far in Bhadradri Kothagudem district. In all, 83,341 claims over 2,99,269 acres of forest lands were filed by as many as 65,616 tribal people and 17,725 other …

Tribal Telangana Claims Forest District Lands Acres
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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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 …

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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 …

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Brutalities on Podu farmers could could raise army of rebels
2 years, 5 months ago

Brutalities on Podu farmers could could raise army of rebels

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: While hundreds of podu farmers who are being forcefully evicted from their lands are undergoing harrowing times, their offspring are staring at a bleak future and are living in perennial fear. With the police and forest officials resorting to physical assault and mental harassment of these innocent tribals in full glare of their children, it would have lasting impact …

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Illegal occupation of forest land goes on unabated
2 years, 6 months ago

Illegal occupation of forest land goes on unabated

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Increasingly belligerent acts of occupying forest areas in Telangana in the guise of podu cultivation appear to be becoming the order of the day, particularly in the Kawal Tiger Reserve spread over Mancherial, Adilabad, Nirmal, and Komaram Bheem Asifabad districts. There is a lot of confusion over the government promise of giving rights to occupied forest land, and also …

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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 …

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