Ranchi: The Munda tribe-dominated Khunti district which stayed in the limelight for its Pathalgarhi motion and consequent police actions in 2018-19 is now once more bringing eyeballs in the aftermath of an”encroachment” from the district government and demonstration from villagers.
As stated by the Tilma gram sabha, the district government and the authorities have”encroached” upon their own Sarna Sthal (sacred spot to get tribal worship) preventing the villagers by providing their worship.
On Thursday afternoon, a great number of safety personnel prevented the villagers from protesting in the region and threatened to do it when they continued to protest.
The gram sabha, on the other hand, has composed a letter to chief ministry Hemant Soren trying to recovery of the rights ensured under the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act 1996.
The Act provides the community directly over property and enables the gram sabha to make conclusions concerning any government job in their control area.
The letter delivered to the ministry from the gram sabha stated it had refused consent to the authorities for camping or construction of police employees.
From the correspondence, the pradhan of the Tilma village, Birsa Munda, stated no processes had been followed closely Section 24 of Land Acquisition Act 2013 for obtaining the property quantifying 0.58 match marked as plot amount 1456.
“It had been around February 28 that through a soccer game at the village, even a huge contingent of security forces arrived together with local government officials to encroach across the property by levelling it using JCB machines and also erecting a weapon,” the letter reads.
The residents also have handed another charm to the SDO using the touch of over 100 villagers awarding the management of the compulsory consent necessary from the gram sabha for any construction job which hasn’t yet been completed without acquiring property.
Among these villagers, Nandaramsaid they have a police station in Maranghada, barely 7 kilometers from Tilma.
“The villagers do not want a police camp along with even a police station as well as the gram sabha hasn’t raised any need So, there’s absolutely not any point to spend the land to establish a camp or even a police station, about that we have yet to be taken into confidence,” he explained.
Stating the villagers weren’t permitted to do puja in the Sarna Sthal, Nandaram reported the fencing was created within a bare piece of property.
“The government hasn’t obtained the Sarna Sthal entirely but they’ve encroached the open territory in which the villagers execute other rituals such as creature sacrifice,” he further added.
Tilma and Turup are one of both villages where Pathalgarhi — that the movement of preparing stone tablets to maintain their rights over property and woods as guaranteed under the PESA Act — wasn’t completed.
Deputy commissioner (Khunti) Shashi Ranjan didn’t respond TOI’s calls or text messages, even that the SP of the districtAsutosh Shekhar, stated the property was obtained by the government and passed over to authorities.
“The plot where the police station has been constructed doesn’t incorporate any Sarna Sthal.
An adjoining plot is that the Sarna Sthal however, the villagers needed to execute rituals in the fencing.
Consequently they had been ceased,” he explained.