The Hindu Business Line : AP govt urged to waive endowment land dues

In a press release on Tuesday, Mr B.V. Raghavulu, CPI (M)'s State unit Secretary, asked the Government to hold `grama sabhas' and identify the genuine tenants who were actually doing the farming on endowment lands. "Government should not ask them to vacate," he said.

Alleging that a recent directive by the State Endowments Department with regard to the lands under its purview would be detrimental to the interests of tenant farmers, he said it was unfair to ask the poor farmers, who were toiling on the lands for decades, to quit.

The Department had slapped notices on the farmers, asking them to vacate the lands and pay the dues in one month, he said. "A large number of feudal chiefs have registered themselves as tenants, giving the land on sub-leasing and making huge profits. The Government guidelines provide no succour to those farmers who have taken land on sub-lease," the CPM leader said, criticising the Government for not putting in place proper guidelines to identify the genuine tenants.

Mr Raghavulu urged the Government to buy endowments lands and distribute the same to beneficiaries belonging to the Scheduled Castes.

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