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The Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam and the All India Kisan Sabha staged a protestation against onshore alienation successful the sanction of industrialisation and for the retrieval of panchami lands backmost to the Dalits, astatine the Collectorate present connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025).
The protesters highlighted the assorted struggles undertaken to found the rights of the mediocre implicit lands nether their use. The relation slammed the new-age onshore alienation by unchecked onshore acquisition for real-estate connected the 1 hand, and onshore acquisition for projects connected the other.
The associations demanded that 12 lakh acres of panchami lands that were encroached upon and ‘usurped’ from the usage of Dalits indispensable beryllium retrieved and handed implicit to the rightful owners.
Demanding onshore for the tillers and users, the protesters called for onshore rights for those utilizing and labouring connected lands of temples, Trust, and the Waqf board. According to the protesters, the lands that were utilized by generations of mediocre indispensable beryllium fixed back.
They besides called upon the authorities to halt onshore acquisitions of wetlands for SIPCOT projects. Instead, the authorities indispensable usage the poramboke and fallow lands, and those lands that autumn successful the interim indispensable beryllium acquired aft owed consultations and outgo of rightful compensation, the protesters said.
According to the protesters, the Forest Rights Act, 2006 indispensable beryllium implemented to assistance dwelling rights to the accepted wood dwellers. However, the associations alleged systemic alienation of the accepted dwellers from their claims to the forests.
They besides demanded the authorities revoke its 1989- issued bid banning pattas for fallow poramboke successful elevation hamlets and see pattas for accepted dwellers connected the poramboke lands.
