Members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),
Mysore district committee, staged a protest in Mysore on Monday urging the
State government to order a probe into land deals involving more than
2,000 acres in and around Chamundi Hills.
The 1951
agreement between the erstwhile Mysore royal family and the Government
of India should be scrapped as the land in contention belonged to the
State, they said.
‘Issue title deeds’
The
protesters criticised the district administration for remaining
“silent” on issuing title deeds to farmers who had been cultivating
‘bagair hukum’, ‘gomala’, ‘gundutopu’, forest and revenue land for over
40 years. They demanded that the government initiate the process of
issuing title deeds.
The land mafia had entered
politics in the district and had a hand in the distribution of sites by
the Mysore Urban Development Authority, they charged. The CID probe
ordered by the government was dismissed as “eyewash”.
The
workers drew the attention of the government to “large-scale
irregularities” in land purchase by the Karnataka Housing Board for
developing a housing complex at Gungaral Chatra area and surrounding
villages in Mysore taluk. This case too should be handed over to the CBI
or the Lokayukta, they demanded.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
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