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The Revenue section has invited applications from residents excluded from thelandholder database to implicit the colony process for the Neelakurinji Sanctuary successful Vattavada. The determination follows claims by residents that 167 individuals were excluded from the last colony list.
On Thursday, the section called for applications from residents successful Blocks 58 and 62 of Vattavada. Those excluded tin taxable their claims astatine the Devikulam gross divisional bureau oregon the Kottakamboor and Vattavada colony offices till March 9. Applicants indispensable beryllium that they held the onshore connected oregon earlier October 6, 2006.
Recently, the Revenue section had issued notices to residents successful Blocks 58 and 62 of Vattavada and Kottakamboor villages, directing them to nutrient ownership documents earlier the Devikulam Subcollector. According to officials, Subcollector V.M. Arya issued notices to 452 individuals for last verification. However, a radical of residents maintained they were near retired of this archetypal list.
Ms. Arya stated that a precocious level gathering held connected February 11, attended by Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran and Revenue Minister K. Rajan, led to the determination to judge applications from excluded persons.
“Through this opportunity, residents tin taxable their claims for the last settlement. Once we person the last fig of applications, we volition person a wide representation of the full fig of residents successful the colony process,” said Ms. Arya.
Former Vattavada panchayat president K. Ramaraj welcomed the determination but urged for much ceremonial documentation. “Our information shows that 167 farmers were excluded. We request that the authorities contented a ceremonial Government Order (GO) regarding this process,” Mr. Ramaraj said.
Ms. Arya added that the validity of the applications volition lone beryllium determined aft last verification. She besides noted that the Forest section is entitled to taxable its ain claims during the colony process.
The Revenue section has yet initiated the colony process for the Neelakurinji Sanctuary 20 years aft its archetypal announcement. On October 6, 2006, then-Forest Minister Binoy Viswam announced the instauration of the 32-square-km sanctuary successful the Kottakamboor-Vattavada country of Devikulam taluk.
