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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tiger reserve proposal: Tribals to move court by Raghu Paithari

Tiger reserve proposal: Tribals to move court by Raghu Paithari

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published Published on Feb 18, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 18, 2012

Tribals who are opposed to the proposed tiger reserve in Kawal wildlife sanctuaryin Adilabad district have decided to move court to seek protection of their Adivasi rights. Interestingly, there is no confirmation of the presence of tigers in the sanctuary although officials claim that the forest has seven big cats. 

Sources said that the movement of the tigers has not been recorded by cameras in the forest. An expert recently came from Khammam forest to rearrange the cameras that they may pick up the movement of tigers but in vain. 

According to the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (Pesa) Act of 1996, gram sabhas or panchayats should be consulted before acquiring land in scheduled areas for development projects and for resettlement and rehabilitation of persons affected by such projects in these areas. 

No gram sabhas have been held in the 42 tribal habitations in Jannaram, Kadem, Khanapur, Indravelli and Utnoor mandals which would have to be evacuated for the proposed tiger reserve. Adivasi Ikya Porata Samithi district president Sidam Shimbu pooh-poohed the forest officials' claim that a rehabilitation package had been announced saying that it had been done without consulting the local tribals. 

The Centre has proposed to rehabilitate the tribals and offered compensation of Rs 10 lakh per family besides providing cultivable land in another area. "Why should tribals leave their ancestral lands to make way for a tiger zone," asked CPM leader Kanaka Yadavarao, who led a padayatra of Adivasi bodies from Jannaram to Adilabad town in January this year to protest against the tiger reserve. 

Adivasis fear that, once rehabilitated, they would lose their rights to the forest. Meanwhile, Jannaram divisional forest officer G Ramakrishana Rao has said that it was not possible to launch works without notifying the area. Although the central government has declared the area to be a tiger zone, the government must notify the area, the DFO said. "We have sent proposals to the government and are awaiting its response. We will not forcibly shift the tribals," he added.

The Times of India, 18 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Tiger-reserve-proposal-Tribals-to-move-court/articleshow/11932347.cms


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