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The State authorities should extremity its favoritism against tribal families affected by the Mundakkai landslides and instantly denote a broad rehabilitation package, M. Geethanandan, State coordinator of Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha (AGMS), has said.
In a connection issued present connected Thursday, Mr. Geethanandan said the rehabilitation of 13 tribal families who were to beryllium relocated from Punchirimattam and Erattukundu areas had not progressed contempt the inauguration of the archetypal signifier of the township task successful the Mundakkai disaster-affected region.
According to him, the tribal families were excluded from the township project. They, helium said, had besides expressed their unwillingness to determination distant from their forest-based livelihoods. Considering this, the authorities had decided to allot alternate onshore adjacent Chooralmala colony nether the provisions of the Forest Rights Act, helium claimed.
“Funds for constructing houses and implementing different rehabilitation projects for the affected families person not yet been identified,” said Mr. Geethanandan. He described the contented arsenic a wide lawsuit of neglect and favoritism against a socially marginalised tribal community.
The AGMS person besides came down connected the authorities and catastrophe absorption authorities for entrusting the work of tribal rehabilitation chiefly to district-level officials contempt the announcement of large-scale township and rehabilitation projects successful the area.
He pointed retired that the astir 500 tribal families successful Wayanad who suffered losses during the floods of 2018 and 2019 and the consequent landslides were inactive awaiting due rehabilitation. The authorities should instantly denote a rehabilitation package, failing which the organisation would motorboat protests and edifice to ineligible action, helium said.
