Dear all
I found the news published in the Bhubneshwar
edition of English daily “The Pioneer” interesting and posting it for perusal of all.
Yours
SudhirMishra/Balangir.
FRIDAY,
15 MARCH 2013 19:56
PNS
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The State Government while having provided land pattas to
3,27,496 tribals under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) till date, has decided to
provide land Pattas to 23,000 tribals very soon.
It may be noted that
Odisha has emerged as the top State in terms of FRA settlement and providing
land Pattas to the tribals and forest-dwellers under the aegis of the
Department of SC & ST Development.
This was revealed at a
high-level review meeting on FRA presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
on Wednesday, where Minister of ST & SC Development Lal Bihar Himirika was
present. The Chief Minister directed the concerned departments to provide land
Pattas to tribals after considering their claims at the earliest.
It was also informed at
the meeting that 12,000 landless families have been provided with Pattas under
the Odisha Tribal Empowerment and Livelihood Project (OTELP) till date.
For identification of
landless tribals under the OTELP, the Government has appointed 550 Community
Resource Persons in 30 blocks who have identified 26,000 landless tribal
families.
The landless tribals are
being provided land under a number of welfare programmes including Basundhara,
Mo Jami Mo Diha, OPLE and OGLS coming under the OTELP. The Government has set a
target to provide land to five lakh tribal families of 18,000 villages under
118 Tribal Sub Plan Blocks by 2016-17.
This apart, the
Government has provided land Pattas with 26,900 acres of land to 17,706 ST
families. It has also taken steps for development of the land and houses of
these land allotees under various programmes including Indira Awas Yojana, Mo
Kudia, Mo Pokhari, MGNREGS and Bamboo Mission.
It was also revealed that
the Government has taken up construction works for hostels for tribal students.
While construction of 379 hostels was completed in 2011-12, works for 621
hostels are underway of which construction of 350 hostels would be completed
before the coming academic year.
Out of the total 1,000
hostels to be constructed during 2013-14, 110 would be earmarked for tribal
college students. The process for construction for five urban hostel complexes
in Rourkela, Bhubaneswar and Brahmapur has already started.
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