Tribals ‘manipulated’, lose land compensation below Bharatmala! 

Express News Service

KORAPUT: A spate of complaints over tribal land allegedly alienated in wrongful method to applicable compensation for land acquisition below the Centrally-sponsored Bharatmala Pariyojana undertaking has come to the fore in Koraput district.

Former Pottangi MLA Prafulla Pangi claimed to be considered one of many who has been duped. He was holding 10.8 acre of land in three khatas below Lunguri Mouza in Semiliguda Tehsil. He was a tenant of the land from 1997 which was recorded in his identify however mutation course of was incomplete.

However, he claimed {that a} authorities worker bought the identical land in 2003 and availed compensation of Rs 1.96 crore below the undertaking within the first part. The second part compensation couldn’t be launched after he filed a grievance.

Pangi has additionally filed a civil case within the court docket to avail the compensation as authentic landowner. He claimed that 26 such dispute circumstances have come to the fore due to improper verification of encumbrance of land information by income authorities.

In one other such case, a 76-year-old Bahadur Majhi, a former worker of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited at Sunabeda, claimed he was a sufferer too. From Santhal tribe, Majhi had a patch of three.66 acre land in Lunguri mouza below Semiliguda Tehsil which he bought in Nineteen Eighties. He not too long ago submitted a grievance with Koraput Collector stating that his land was proven as belonging to a common caste individual and later compensation was availed by two individuals.

He resides in Mayurbhanj after retirement and is bed-ridden. Majhi claimed that the brand new land house owners acquired of Rs 1.76 crore compensation from the competent authority in alternate of the land for the freeway undertaking. 

In the second part, one other Rs 1.92 crore was sanctioned as compensation. However, it’s but to be disbursed because the matter got here to gentle after Majhi submitted a memorandum to the Koraput Collector. Contacted, Collector Md Abdaal Akhtar stated he has directed the sub-collector to probe and decide the actual proprietor of the land.

Semliguda tehsildar Debabrata Karate stated the incident didn’t happen throughout his time period however there shouldn’t be any land transaction after notification of the undertaking. “We have identified 11 cases regarding ownership disputes. I have apprised the matter to the Collector too,” he stated.

Project Director of National Highways Authority of India, Bharatmala Pariyojna Venkatesulu stated greater than 500 hectare personal land might be acquired from over 700 landowners in Koraput district alone.“So far, Rs 135 crore has been disbursed out of Rs 185 crore to land losers. We are hopeful the project would be complete on time if stakeholders support wholeheartedly,” he added.

Meanwhile, convenor of Bharatmala Land Losers’ Association Sarat Chandra Burda alleged that tribals are being manipulated throughout acquisition course of.More than a dozen circumstances during which id of actual landowners have been manipulated are pending below Bharatmala undertaking, he added.
 

KORAPUT: A spate of complaints over tribal land allegedly alienated in wrongful method to applicable compensation for land acquisition below the Centrally-sponsored Bharatmala Pariyojana undertaking has come to the fore in Koraput district.

Former Pottangi MLA Prafulla Pangi claimed to be considered one of many who has been duped. He was holding 10.8 acre of land in three khatas below Lunguri Mouza in Semiliguda Tehsil. He was a tenant of the land from 1997 which was recorded in his identify however mutation course of was incomplete.

However, he claimed {that a} authorities worker bought the identical land in 2003 and availed compensation of Rs 1.96 crore below the undertaking within the first part. The second part compensation couldn’t be launched after he filed a grievance.

Pangi has additionally filed a civil case within the court docket to avail the compensation as authentic landowner. He claimed that 26 such dispute circumstances have come to the fore due to improper verification of encumbrance of land information by income authorities.

In one other such case, a 76-year-old Bahadur Majhi, a former worker of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited at Sunabeda, claimed he was a sufferer too. From Santhal tribe, Majhi had a patch of three.66 acre land in Lunguri mouza below Semiliguda Tehsil which he bought in Nineteen Eighties. He not too long ago submitted a grievance with Koraput Collector stating that his land was proven as belonging to a common caste individual and later compensation was availed by two individuals.

He resides in Mayurbhanj after retirement and is bed-ridden. Majhi claimed that the brand new land house owners acquired of Rs 1.76 crore compensation from the competent authority in alternate of the land for the freeway undertaking. 

In the second part, one other Rs 1.92 crore was sanctioned as compensation. However, it’s but to be disbursed because the matter got here to gentle after Majhi submitted a memorandum to the Koraput Collector. Contacted, Collector Md Abdaal Akhtar stated he has directed the sub-collector to probe and decide the actual proprietor of the land.

Semliguda tehsildar Debabrata Karate stated the incident didn’t happen throughout his time period however there shouldn’t be any land transaction after notification of the undertaking. “We have identified 11 cases regarding ownership disputes. I have apprised the matter to the Collector too,” he stated.

Project Director of National Highways Authority of India, Bharatmala Pariyojna Venkatesulu stated greater than 500 hectare personal land might be acquired from over 700 landowners in Koraput district alone.“So far, Rs 135 crore has been disbursed out of Rs 185 crore to land losers. We are hopeful the project would be complete on time if stakeholders support wholeheartedly,” he added.

Meanwhile, convenor of Bharatmala Land Losers’ Association Sarat Chandra Burda alleged that tribals are being manipulated throughout acquisition course of.More than a dozen circumstances during which id of actual landowners have been manipulated are pending below Bharatmala undertaking, he added.