….Ganjam officials started land survey work in the area.
Berhampur: Tension is simmering in the land dispute case between Lok Sangram Manch and villagers of Gaudagotha and nearby villages under Badagada police station of Sorada block of Ganjam district. The villagers have started protesting the illegal encroachment of proposed High School land by the members of Lok Sangram Manch on Monday.
Hundreds of villagers from Gaudagotha, Surubandha, Talapatama, Bhaliapada, Haripur, Kharikuda and other villages got united in a meeting to discuss about the illegal encroachments by Lok Sangram Manch, but the members of the so called Manch were absent, it created dissatisfaction among the villagers and the members of Krushak Sabha. They discussed about the despotic behave of the Manch members and got united to bring back the lands encroached by the Lok Sangram Manch. The villagers started breaking of thatched cattle sheds built by the opponents on the dispute land.
According to the Gaudagotha villagers, the supporters of the Lok Sangram Manch had encroached 5 acre land proposed for the establishment of a high school gifted by Biswanath temple administration of the village. Similar encroachments were occurred near Haripur, Gojiakhamana village, alleged the villagers.
The villagers demanded at the collector for a strict action and the proper solution to the land dispute on July 16 this month. Whereas, they could not get any response from the district administration till July 25, according to their deadline to the district administration for the solution of the dispute, they started solving their problem in their way.
After the land dispute tension in Sorada, Ganjam collector Krishan Kumar called a emergency meeting in collector’s conference hall at Chatrapur on Monday. He told to newsmen that the land survey work will start from tomorrow onwards in Sorada. After the enquiry district administration will hand over the land, which belongs to the villagers. After Tehsildar’s enquiry the fate of the dispute lands will be finalized. And he directed to the local Tehsildar to submit the enquiry report of 433 plots near Muliapalli of Sorada block within seven days. He also suggested to both Krushak Sabha and Lok Sangram Manch members that before the enquiry, they should not create any law and order situation in the village area.
On Tuesday, Bhanjanagar Sub-collector Pabitra Mandal and local BDO Kailash Chandra Behara have visited the area to take the stock of the situation. Inspector in-charge of Badagada police station informed The Pioneer over phone that situation of the area is very normal. Officials have visited the disputed area to take the stock of the situation.
Last year, the supporter group of the Lok Sangram Manch had forcefully encroached the villagers land by putting a red flag on the land on July 27 last year near hatigoda-Muliapalli village area, for which a bloody clash and firing had taken place, 15 were injured in that clash.
At first the officials include sub-collector Pabitra Mandal, SDPO B K Kamila, Revenue Inspector Pramod Kumar Behera have started survey in the disputed land of Gaudagotha and Talapatama village then the Hatigada-Muliapalli disputed land survey from Tuesday onwards.
The officials started the survey from plot number 204 and then plot no 447, 449 which was registered in the name of school Circle Inspector for the establishment of high school on September 15, 2004.
While 36 families of Talapatama village have taken shelter in Badagada police station on Tuesday night fearing the peoples of Harabhangi Krushak Mahasabha after the Mondays incidence.
On Wednesday, Police told that the persons those were taken shelter in the police station, they returned back to the village. No terror in the area, administration is looking into the matter.
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