ALLEGED ENCROACHMENT BY ACF: OFFICIALS CONDUCT INSPECTION
Based on a
complaint filed by an NGO against a Forest Department officer, accusing
the latter of encroaching Reserve Forest land, a team of Forest
Department personnel conducted an inspection of the said land in
Devamachi Reserve Forest near Thithimathi in south Kodagu this morning.
Chief Conservator of Forests
(Kodagu Circle) Brijesh Kumar Dikshit, who led the team, told SOM later
that encroachment of Forest land under Survey No. 76/1, said to be
under the possession of the family of ACF K.D. Belliappa, has been
confirmed.
"There is no doubt that forest
land has been encroached upon. However, the extent of encroachment and
those involved can be ascertained only after a thorough perusal of the
records as there are too many documents involved," said the CCF and
added that he would be submitting a report to the government by April 2.
Replying to a query, he also
said that the Central Government had approved of the said land for
regularisation under the Akrama-Sakrama scheme, as it had been
cultivated as a coffee plantation, along with such encroachments by many
others.
It may be recalled that social
activist M.G. Prabhu, who is also the Director of Hunsur-based Indian
Institute of Tribal Education, had at a press conference in Mysore on
Mar. 10 last, accused ACF Belliappa of encroaching 18.20 acres of forest
land in the Reserve Forest. Prabhu had also lodged a complaint with the
Principal Chief Conservator of Fore-sts A.K. Verma about the alleged
encroachment, based on which an investigation was ordered.
Courtesy:-Star Of Mysore
http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=31707
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