Mandya,
Jul 12, 2012, DHNS:
Maddur
taluk has witnessed highest encroachment
Land
mafia is ruling the roost across the state and about 29,909 acres of
government land that has been allegedly encroached in the district
has come as a shocker for the residents of Mandya.
Among
1,44,273 acre of government land available in district, 32,718 acre
is encroached.
The
district administration has till now cleared just 2,808 acre.
Government land worth crores is encroached by many and is cultivated
on which authorities have turned a blind eye which is proved by the
limping clearance works and no action against tresspassers is taken.
Highest
Maddur
taluk has witnessed highest encroachment of 7,919 acre while the
largest taluk Nagamangala has 362 acre of land encroached.
Gundu
topu, school premises, graveyard, roads, ponds, land reserved for
public purpose and even forest land has been encroached.
In
Mandya taluk, 6,408 acre, 2,307 acre in Malavalli, 3,397 acre in
Srirangapatna, 3,193 acre in Pandavapura and 6,321.14 acre in K R Pet
is encroached.
For
the reasons unknown the clearance work is going on slow. Not more
than 10 or 15 acres of encroached land is cleared per month. Only
9.30 acre of land is cleared in May 2012 while there is no much
progress in other taluks.
Committee
Task
force to conserve government land formed in September 2009 led by
former secretary V Balasubramanyan identified the land encroached and
launched the clearance works.
Form
50-53
The
authorities have received many forms of 50-53 to legalise 17,868.30
acre of land belonging to government which was cultivated illegally
before 1998.
2980.25
acre in Mandya taluk, 5483.11 acre in Maddur, 426.03 acre in
Malavalli, 2,942 acre in Srirangapatna, 141.02 acre in Nagamangala,
1944 acre in Pandavapura and 3,938.02 acre in K R Pet has to be
dispatched under the form.
Land
surveyors
Though
posts for 100 land surveyors is sanctioned for district, only 76 is
filled, who are forced to perform multi-task of handling record room,
collection of documents, integrated mutation and others along with
their part of work.
It
is not only the lack of staff that is hindering the works but
district also lacks total station equipment which measure the land
accurately.
Officials
say two equipment are borrowed to serve the purpose.
While
another official says sufficient amount of money is not alloted for
clearance works.
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