http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/10/stories/2011021063630500.htm
Tamil Nadu - Madurai
Non-Dalits reject pattas for relocation
D.Karthikeyan
District administration to persuade them, says Collector
MADURAI: A team of Revenue officials led by North Tahsildar with a
strong posse of police personnel visited the Vandiyur Theerthakadu
village near Madurai on Wednesday, to hand over pattas to 327
non-Dalits who were allegedly encroaching upon the land meant for
Dalits. However, the non-Dalits refused to accept the pattas and
sought time to think over and take up the issue with the Collector. As
per directions of the Madras High Court, the district administration
had identified 3.87 hectares of land at Sakkimangalam second-bit
village under four survey numbers to relocate them which they had
rejected.
The Dalits of Vandiyur Theerthakadu village have been at the forefront
of the three-decade-old struggle to retrieve the lands allotted to
them by the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Welfare Department on March, 3,
1979.
The 349 Dalit families, who were living on the Vaigai riverbed, were
allotted 9.73 acres of land (Old Survey No: 260/2A, 260/2B New Survey:
No.112/2A, 2B) by the Adi Dravidar Welfare Department. Conversely, the
land was encroached upon by caste Hindus and it is still under
dispute.
Collector C.Kamaraj said that one non-Dalits had come forward to
accept the patta and said that the administration would persuade
others to accept the relocation. He further said that the rights of
the Dalits would be upheld and the Court Order would be implemented on
time.
The Madras High Court had twice ordered the removal of encroachments
and relocation of the encroachers, but the administration has not been
able to implement it.
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