Koragas protest in Brahmavar against attempts to take over their traditional land

Koraga families from Garikematha and Achalady villages successful Udupi territory staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Brahmavar tahsildar’s bureau connected December 8 against “some influential groups” attempting to instrumentality implicit the accepted stone-extracting onshore that they person been moving connected for decades.

Speaking connected the occasion, Sujatha, caput of the Federation of Koraga Development Associations, said Koraga families person been extracting reddish laterite stones and residing connected Survey Number 145 successful Yadthadi village. Some politically connected individuals are present trying to unafraid the government’s stone-extracting permits to extract stones from the aforesaid land. It is due to the fact that stones extracted from the aforesaid onshore are of precocious quality. They are present trying to assertion ownership of the onshore and person applied for chromatic extraction permits. If the authorities allows it, it would beryllium a sedate injustice to the archetypal inhabitants.

Sushila Nada, president of the federation, said an effort is being made to displace the stone-quarrying Koragas, a Scheduled Tribe community. They volition motorboat an indefinite onslaught if the authorities grants an extraction licence to outsiders, she said.

An authoritative of the Department of Mines and Geology who met the protesters told them that the Brahmavar tahsildar has recorded the Koragas’ objections successful a study submitted to the Deputy Commissioner, with whom the substance volition beryllium discussed.

The authoritative suggested that Koragas taxable ceremonial applications for quarrying permits to safeguard their rights. The Koragas aboriginal withdrew their protest.