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The Confederation of Environment Associations of Nilgiris (CEAN) has appealed to the District Collector to instrumentality cognisance of beverage estates that interruption the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Land Ceiling Act, 1961.
Surjit K. Chaudhary, retired IAS serviceman and chairperson of CEAN, said the existing buildings meant for beverage cultivation person been converted arsenic nutrient stores, restaurants and league halls, portion others person been converted into impermanent houses for tourism. Moreover, galore beverage estates person entree to these buildings done forests lone for beverage cultivation purposes, which are present being utilized for tourism and commerce. The estates are successful adjacent proximity to reserve forests, which threatens wildlife.
He added that violations astatine the estates contravened Section 73 (iv) of the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Act successful summation to the dangers to elevation ecology and conservation by creating “unsustainable biotic unit for idiosyncratic monetary gains.”
He recommended that “a village-wise… survey whitethorn beryllium done connected each beverage estates to database their dereliction, if any, to travel suitable enactment successful a liable mode by district-level officers. The Forest Department indispensable besides beryllium advised to revisit each the permissions fixed to the beverage estates to find their violations,” helium added.
