Don't misuse land allocated for SC/STs, says Tahsildar

Many take part in taluk-level SC/ST grievance meet

Mangalore Tahsildar Ravichandra Nayak has given a clarion call demanding not to misuse the land allocated for landless SC/ST families.

Addressing the taluk-level SC/ST grievances meet held in the City on Wednesday, the participants brought to the notice of the Tahshildar the instances of how the land allocated to the siteless SC/STs have been misused by them.

Responding to this, the Tahshildar said that the matter has been taken note of and the title deeds of such beneficiaries will be cancelled.

“The process of canceling the title deeds has started already. The sites will be allotted to other siteless SC/STs,” he said adding that in Kannur GP, 272 title deeds have been distributed already but despite two years passing down, the beneficiaries have not built houses. 

“There are complaints that the beneficiaries are selling the land to others, which is clearly not allowed. RTC will not be given to those who are found to have purchased such land,” the tahshildar said.

Ambedkar Jayanthi

The issue of celebration of Ambedkar Jayanthi in schools was raised by the participants. They said that despite the Government communication stating that Ambedkar Jayanthi must be celebrated in all the schools without fail, right on April 14 itself, many Government schools have not celebrated it. They said that though April 14 is a Government holiday, many officials did not take part in the celebration held at Town Hall.The participants sought answer from Education Department officials.

Responding to the same, the Education Department officials said that they had, well in advance directed all the schools to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanthi without fail and as per their knowledge, most of the schools had celebrated the event. “If you know any school, which has failed to observe the Jayanthi, bring it our notice, so that we can check and take action,” said the official.

CET fees

Dalit leader Ramesh Kotian said that though SC/ST students have concession over CET fees, colleges have been collecting the fees from them. This is posing lot of problems to economically backward SC/ST students. 

The tahsildar directed the Social Welfare Department to urge the Mangalore University to issue circular stating that collection of fees from SC/ST students is illegal.

Misappropriation in MGNREGS, problems pertaining to Social Welfare run hostels etc were discussed during the meet.