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Urging the District Administration to allot 250 acres of onshore to Dalit families successful Mathur village, Anthiyur taluk, arsenic promised 3 decades ago, residents staged a protestation astatine the Collectorate present connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025).
Led by S. Karuppaiah, State president of the Dalit Liberation Movement – Tamil Nadu, the families said the State government, successful 1956, had earmarked implicit 1,000 acres for Dalit families successful the occidental districts. However, they claimed that galore of the beneficiaries were aboriginal evicted, and the onshore was encroached upon by different communities.
According to them, ample portions of onshore that were primitively meant for Arunthathiyar and Paraiyar families successful Gobichettipalayam and Anthiyur taluks person been occupied by individuals from different communities. They pointed retired that the onshore successful Mathur colony remains nether authorities power and is classified arsenic wood land. Hence, they demanded to allot it to Dalit families successful the village. Later, officials held talks with the protesters.
