Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court ordered notices in a writ plea challenging the provisions of the Telangana Forests Act, 1967. Chirra Guruvaiah, belonging to the Chenchu community, based his writ plea on the ground that the Telangana Forests Act was repugnant to The Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006 and consequentially unconstitutional. He …
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 …
The hope dangling over this election year for the Adivasi and tribal populations in the State is Podu land regularisation since Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao recently announced in the state legislative assembly on the issue. According to the data from the Forest department, over four lakh fresh claims to the forest lands in the name of ‘podu’ or shifting …
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 …
