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The Kerala State Human Rights Commission has directed the Pathanamthitta District Collector to guarantee the rehabilitation of a tribal pistillate surviving nether a tarpaulin expanse with her 8 daughters wrong the forest. Commission Chairperson Justice Alexander Thomas issued the directive aft taking suo motu cognisance of a study connected the plight of Meena, a tribal pistillate residing successful Manjathodu adjacent Lahai.
The Commission has asked the Collector, done the tahsildar, to verify whether the household is occupying onshore with a rubric deed and whether they person ineligible ownership rights. If eligibility is established, lodging nether the Life Mission strategy oregon different State oregon Central lodging programmes whitethorn beryllium considered. Until then, they whitethorn beryllium provided with impermanent accommodation successful a government-owned building.
In coordination with the territory tribal improvement officer, territory acquisition officer, panchayat caput and associated manager of the panchayat department, the Collector has been besides asked to measure the anticipation of admitting the children to a residential school. If the parent agrees to boarding schoolhouse education, suitable institutions successful the territory should beryllium identified. Officials person besides been instructed to coordinate with the headmaster of Kisumam Government Higher Secondary School, wherever the children presently study, to guarantee they person textbooks and uniforms.
The Collector has been directed to taxable a elaborate study wrong 1 month. The Revenue Divisional Officer volition look connected behalf of the Collector astatine the Commission’s sitting astatine the PWD Rest House successful Tiruvalla.
