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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Are tribal panchayats in protected areas being illegally converted to municipalities? -Anmol Guptajeff Joseph

Are tribal panchayats in protected areas being illegally converted to municipalities? -Anmol Guptajeff Joseph

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published Published on Sep 26, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 27, 2022

-The Hindu Frontline

The story of Manuguru in eastern Telangana tells us how this sleight of hand is worked.

Manuguru, a small town in eastern Telangana, set a record in April 2022 collecting Rs.1.59 crore in property taxes. It even made it to the list of top performing municipalities in the State by achieving more than 95 per cent of its annual property tax collection target. However, the fact is that Manuguru, in Bhadradri Kothagudem district, does not have an elected body and its very existence as a municipality is questionable.

Until May 31, 2005, Manuguru was a panchayat in a Fifth Schedule area under the Constitution, which provides special protection to tribal people, when the government of undivided Andhra Pradesh converted it into a municipality. (Panchayats in Fifth Schedule areas lose their special safeguards when they are “upgraded” to municipalities.) “The State has no legal capacity to do this,” said Palla Trinadha Rao, an advocate and tribal rights activist in Andhra Pradesh.

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The Hindu Frontline, 26 September, 2022, https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/investigation-pushed-even-from-the-margins-tribal-panchayats-in-protected-areas-illegally-being-converted-to-municipalities/article65893689.ece


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