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The Confederation of Environment Associations of Nilgiris (CEAN-Kotagiri chapter) has alleged that immoderate beverage estates successful the territory are successful usurpation of the Tamilnadu Land Reforms (fixation of ceiling of land) Act, 1961.
In a property release, Surjit K. Chaudhary, retired IAS serviceman and Chairperson of CEAN, said that the enactment governs the maximum magnitude of cultivation onshore that a household oregon an idiosyncratic tin clasp successful the State, enacted to “reduce disparities successful onshore ownership” and “prevent the attraction of onshore successful a fewer hands.”
Mr. Chaudhary said that immoderate beverage estates successful the territory person deviated from beverage cultivation to residential and commercialized purposes, which is successful usurpation of the existing laws. CEAN stated that estates astatine Yedapalli successful Coonoor and different areas successful the territory were being transformed for non-tea cultivation purposes.
Raising questions arsenic to however officials had fixed approvals for these diversions, Mr. Chaudhary has sent a missive to the territory Collector with a elaborate database of diversions and questions astir however permissions were granted.
He called for each idiosyncratic powerfulness connections and powerfulness for thoroughfare lights connected properties built successful beverage estates to beryllium disconnected, portion each roads should beryllium declared amerciable and blocked. He besides called for a database of each beverage estates that person violated the instrumentality to beryllium drawn up and registration of parcelled lands beryllium declared illegal.
