All-India yatra for landless dalits, tribals
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Guntur: With a view to obtaining lands for Dalits and the poor, the
Jan Satyagrah Samvad has taken up a yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
The yatra reached Guntur on Saturday.
A `Bhoo darbar' was organised under the aegis of Dalit Bahujan Front
in front of Collectorate here on Saturday to mark the arrival of the
yatra. National Land Reforms Council member PV Rajagopal participated
in the darbar.
The yatra started from Kanyakumari on October 2. Expressing solidarity
with personalities and organisations striving for land reforms, the
yatra will cover 339 districts in 24 states before ending in Kashmir
in October 2012.
After consultations and talks with government officials, struggling
forces and various party leaders, the Jan Satyagrah Samvad will
organise a padayatra with one lakh people from Gwalior to Delhi in
October 2012.
The yatra entered Andhra Pradesh at Varadayapalem in Chittoor district
on November 2. The organisers of the yatra revealed that more than
1,000 organisations all over the nation fighting for land reforms and
about 50 international voluntary organisations were supporting the
yatra.
Mr Rajagopal said Dalits were not born landless but were denied the
lands gradually. Similarly, tribals lost their rights on forest lands
owing to the draconian acts passed by Centre and State Governments.
Now, it is the turn of farmers who have been robbed of their lands in
the name of Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
The Jan Satyagrah Samvad has been demanding the government to lease
out endowment lands to the poor, dalit and tribals of the same
village. Dalits should be provided with title deeds for lands under
streams, tanks and waste lands.
Without differentiating between tribals and non-tribals, they should
be accorded rights over the land under Forest Rights Act. A special
cell should be created to distribute encroached lands. No lands of the
poor should be acquired for projects and land distribution should be
made a continuous process.
For the implementation of Koneru Ranga Rao Committee recommendations,
a special panel should be formed with a special officer and the
inclusion of people's organisations. House sites should be provided to
all the eligible.
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