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The territory medication has decided to widen Operation Smile, a task launched to unafraid onshore ownership rights for the Koraga community, to screen each Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities. The inaugural led by District Collector K. Inbasekar aims to resoluteness long-pending land-related issues and guarantee unhindered entree for ST communities to authorities payment schemes.
Special reappraisal meetings were held crossed each taluks to measure the advancement of the project. The Scheduled Tribe Development section and the Revenue section are jointly overseeing the initiative. The full ST colonisation successful the territory stands astatine 83,867, of whom 981 individuals person already been included arsenic beneficiaries nether ‘Operation Smile’.
In Kasaragod and Manjeswaram taluks, 1,760 radical from the Koraga assemblage person been covered truthful far. Land surveys person been completed for each 539 families. Of them, 155 families person already received rubric deeds, portion onshore belonging to 158 families has been measured and assessed. Applications for onshore titles person been submitted by 147 families, and certified copies person been issued to 17 beneficiaries.
The task activities are presently underway connected 478 acres of onshore dispersed crossed 59 Koraga colonies successful Kasaragod and Manjeswaram taluks. Officials said that erstwhile onshore ownership is formally established, beneficiaries volition beryllium capable to entree each authorities benefits, including lodging schemes, without procedural hurdles.
