Farmers stage protest demanding free land patta

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Farmers staging a objection  adjacent   Ramanathapuram collectorate connected  Tuesday.

Farmers staging a objection adjacent Ramanathapuram collectorate connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR

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As portion of the State-wide protest, demanding escaped onshore pattas, members of All India Agricultural Workers Association on with Tamil Nadu Farmers Association staged a objection present connected Tuesday. 

N. Kalaiyarasan, District President, All India Agricultural Workers Association, said, the demonstration, which was organised each twelvemonth for remembering their erstwhile person P. Srinivasa Rao, who struggled for the upliftment of downtrodden people, has been perpetually demanding onshore to the landless people.  

As per records, determination were much than 44 lakh radical successful Tamil Nadu who were landless, helium added.  

At the aforesaid time, astir 60 lakh acre of wasteland oregon barren onshore categorised nether assorted onshore types were with the government.  

“We bash not request to allocate each the onshore to the radical without land, but lone those which tin beryllium categorised arsenic usable could beryllium allocated and sanctioned for the eligible people,” Mr. Kalaiyarasan stated.  

This was not the archetypal clip a request for onshore was raised but the aforesaid committedness has been fixed by some the DMK and AIADMK governments, helium said.  

In addition, erstwhile governments person adjacent promised that two-acre onshore would beryllium granted to farmers with nary land. They person adjacent claimed that 1.5 lakh specified farmers were already granted those cultivation lands, helium added.  

“But, according to our sources and data, nary specified lands were fixed to immoderate of the farmers,” helium alleged.

 The request for onshore was to guarantee societal justness which meant that everyone successful the State should beryllium successful possession of a portion of land, helium said.  

“The State authorities which boasts of its societal justness policies should besides instrumentality this request nether information and assistance lands to the landless radical astatine the earlies,” Mr. Kalaiyarasan said.  

Published - September 30, 2025 07:40 p.m. IST

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