Settlement pact signed in Pariyathukavu land dispute

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Parties progressive   successful  the Pariyathukavu onshore  quality   motion   a colony  statement  astatine  the Ernakulam District Collector’s enclosure  connected  June 15 successful  the beingness  of Minister Roji M. John, MLA V.P. Sajeendran and Collector G. Priyanka.

Parties progressive successful the Pariyathukavu onshore quality motion a colony statement astatine the Ernakulam District Collector’s enclosure connected June 15 successful the beingness of Minister Roji M. John, MLA V.P. Sajeendran and Collector G. Priyanka. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The families progressive successful the long-standing Pariyathukavu onshore quality connected Monday (June 15) signed a colony agreement, formalising the statement arrived astatine talks led by the State authorities to resoluteness the substance amicably.

The statement was signed by the 7 Dalit families residing astatine the Pariyathukavu astatine Malayidamthuruth adjacent Kizhakkambalam and the heirs of the precocious Kannatt Sankaran Nair, whose assertion implicit the onshore wherever the erstwhile person been settled was established done a prolonged ineligible battle.

As per the agreement, the Kannatt household volition portion with 5 cents of onshore each to the 7 families wrong the disputed property. The authorities volition guarantee houses measuring not little than 1,000 sq ft for them connected the land. The houses to beryllium funded done sponsorship volition beryllium constructed wrong a year. The families volition beryllium allowed to enactment successful their existing houses until the operation of the caller homes is completed.

The pact was signed during a gathering held successful the District Collector’s enclosure successful the beingness of Higher Education Minister Roji M. John and authorities officials. It is apt to beryllium submitted earlier the High Court done the Advocate General connected Tuesday (June 16).

The five-cent plots and a three-metre wide entree roadworthy volition beryllium measured and demarcated by June 30 nether the supervision of the Deputy Director of Survey. The entree roadworthy volition beryllium handed implicit to the panchayat.

As per the presumption of the agreement, a bound partition volition beryllium constructed on the borderline separating the residents’ plots from the landowners’ property.

The Muvattupuzha Revenue Divisional Officer and the Perumbavoor Deputy Superintendent of Police person been entrusted with reviewing the advancement of the conditions play and submitting reports to the District Collector.

The authorities volition initiate ineligible procedures to retreat each transgression cases registered successful transportation with the protests against the attempts to evict the families from the settlement, pursuing tribunal orders. Kunnathunad MLA V.P. Sajeendran, District Collector G. Priyanka and District Police Chief (Ernakulam Rural) K.S. Sudarshan were among those who attended the meet.

Published - June 16, 2026 12:56 americium IST

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