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 …
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 …
