ThiruvananThapuram: Examination of files from the income department has revealed that former Revenue Minister E Chandraskharan was ordered to issue orders that enable tree logging, suggesting the objection of officials and even before clarity where all trees can be cut down from the Law Department.
The current copy of the file and the File Note The Department of Revenue also shows that the Minister refused to objected to the Ministry of Forestry and warned that actions would be taken against officials who raised objections to this problem.
“Amendments to the land assignment regulation, 1964, was brought in 2017 to allow farmers to fall trees that had been planted or planted naturally from the land assigned to them,” he wrote in the file.
He further said that in accordance with Part 6 of the promotion of tree growth laws, 2005, it has been said that landowners, if it is not forest land, can cut all trees except sandalwood, which has been planted by them on the ground.
Even when the forestry department raised several objections in the logging of trees despite having so much clarity in these provisions, the income department has issued a circular on March 11, 2020, making ownership of all trees, except land sandalwood, on landowners, on landowners.
Must look serious that even so, some try to sacrify the rights of poor farmers, the Minister said in the file.
He said that farmers do not need to ask permission from anyone in opposing trees like that, and anyone who tries to block their rights must be considered as DereltionSi of their duties.
Officials have written in files that even based on the amendments brought in 2017, logging sandalwood, teak, black wood and black wood is illegal and this logging based on 2017 amendments will not survive in the legal examination.
But the minister rejected the objection of this law.
Also, the round mentioned by the minister lives in a high court by temporary commandments issued on July 8, 2020.