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Sep. 10: In the incident where a forest department officer and staff destroyed a two-acre coffee and cardamom plantation in Mukkodlu village on the pretext of forest land, forest officers Darshini and Dinesh should be dismissed from their jobs by Ta.26 and a compensation of Rs. 30 lakh should be given to the aggrieved farmer Kalachanda Naniyappa, District Raitha Horata Samiti President Chakravarthy Suresh has demanded.
Speaking at a press conference, he warned that if action is not taken to fulfill the demand within Ta.26, they will besiege the Madikeri Forest Hall and protest.
On August 18, forest department officers and staff completely destroyed the land owned by Kalachanda Naniyappa of Mukkodlu, claiming it to be forest land.
Naniappa has made a living by growing cardamom and coffee plantations in Mukkodlu's Paisari land. Since his plantation is Paisari, he has submitted an application in Form No. 51 in 1991 and Form No. 53 in 2018 to get it sanctioned. His plantation is in Survey No. 33/2, and its land title only mentions Paisari and not forest. Even so, Suresh questioned who gave the Forest Department the authority to destroy the agriculture in his land.
The farmers are currently facing difficulties due to the problem of 'C and D' land in Somwarpet taluk. He said that the Revenue and Forest Department should conduct a joint survey to resolve the problem. He expressed his strong anger by informing that the Forest Department is currently ignoring these instructions and conducting survey work in places like Tannimani, Bhagamandala and so on. The government has appointed Renukamba as a special officer to identify and survey C and D class lands. As per the rules, the survey should be conducted on the 4th page. However, the survey is being conducted without providing information.
There is opposition from the growers to converting C and D land into forest and the related Section 4 survey. Although the Raitha Horata Samiti has already waged several struggles to resolve the issue, the government has not given a proper response. Many growers in Somwarpet taluk are making a living by cultivating half and one acre gardens on C and D land. But because C and D land is forest land, the growers are not getting any government compensation or facilities, said Suresh.
Tearful farmer
Kalchanda Naniyappa of Mukkodlu said that the forest officials who came to our garden in Paisari land had said that the land was a forest of gods and belonged to the forest department and left. Then, two days later, the officials who arrived said that they had completely cut down the coffee and cardamom plants. The meeting was attended by Raitha Horata Samiti Bhagamandala Hobli President Hosur Girish, the Sangha's District Director Naganda Bhavin, Sajan Nandira of Mukkodlu village, and Odianda Sujan.
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