--Total 58,722.2 acre Bhoodan land available in State out of 6, 38, 706 acres
BHUBANESWAR: “State Government’s
plan to transfer the Bhoodan lands to tahasils will not fulfill its objective,”
alleged Human Rights Front president Manoj Jena here on Friday at a Press meet
organised by the Odisha unit of Ekta Parishad to inform about the Jan
Satyagraha-2012, a march of landless poor to get land rights.
Recently, in a high-level meeting
chaired by the Chief Secretary directed the DLR and S to prepare a proposal for
bringing suitable amendments to the Odisha Bhoodan and Gramdan Act, 1970 and the
Odisha Bhoodan and Gramdan Rules, 1972 to transfer the left over work of
Bhoodan Yangya Samiti to respective Tahasils. Jena
said the transfer of Bhoodan land works to tahasils is not other than a secret
process for converting the land which is not permissible according to the law.
Jena
said that 58,722.2 acres of Bhoodan land is available in the State out of total
6, 38, 706 acres Bhoodan land which was collected during Bhoodan movement. The
rest 5, 79,984 acres of Bhoodan land were distributed among the people of the
State, he added.
Following the statement of Union
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh about the missing of the records of
around 24 lakh acres of Bhoodan land in various States, the noted Bhoodan
workers of the country recently had expressed grave concern over the matter and
urged the Government to recover the missing records of the Bhoodan land
immediately which would immensely help the landless poor.
Ekta Parishad (Odisha) convener
Bijay Pradhan said that they would join in the Janadesh Yatra led by Gandhian
PV Rajgopal to press demands before the Central Government to give land rights to
landless poor of the country. The Yatra would start from Gwalior
on October 2 and end on October 29 at Ramlila Maidan in New
Delhi. Around 25 thousand people across the country would
join in the 28-day yatra, including 5,000 landless poor from Odisha, Pradhan
said.
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