Madikeri Aug. 11: Villagers, farmers, leaders of various organizations and people's representatives of this area have demanded that Kundacheri and Kopatti villages under Kundacheri Chettimani Gram Panchayat, which have been included as an eco-sensitive zone in the recently released Kasturi Rangan report, be immediately excluded.
They held a meeting in the Gram Panchayat hall and strongly opposed the inclusion of Kundacheri and Kopatti villages in the Kasturi Rangan report, which was released for the 7th time on July 27.
Speaking, Kedambadi Keerthi Kumar, a member of the Agricultural Credit Cooperative Society, informed about the difficulties and inconvenience caused to the people due to the Kasturi Rangan report.
Former vice-president of the panchayat, K.U. Harris, said that the public in the area of the panchayat concerned with the Kasturi Rangan report had held a meeting in 2012 and submitted an objection to the then government demanding that the two villages be abandoned. For centuries, poor people in Kundacheri and Kopatti villages have made a living by cultivating paddy, coffee, black pepper, cardamom, banana, areca nut, coconut and other mixed crops. Also, land title deeds and cadastral papers have been given to soldiers who retired in 1979, 1981, 1983, 1987, Scheduled Castes and Tribes,
Laborers and farmers. He expressed dissatisfaction that the Kasturi Rangan report will cause problems to people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
Kundachery and Kopatti villages should be removed from the eco-sensitive zone immediately. They demanded that the concerned department and the central government take action in this regard and protect the interests of the villagers.
Dabbadka E. Sridhar, chairman of the Chettimani Agricultural Cooperative Society, said that the oppression being inflicted on farmers cannot be tolerated. He said that the Kasturi Rangan report will definitely affect four villages under the Kundachery Panchayat and that a non-partisan struggle will be waged in the coming days.
Prominent C.S. Rashid gave information about the Kasturi Rangan report and the submission of objections
Prominent Keerthi Uthappa, Kedambadi Jayaprakash, Kaveramma, Mangerira Jagadish and many others opposed the report and asked them to submit objections.
The meeting was presided over by former Gram Panchayat President P.B. Dinesh. Elders Kedambadi T. Ramesh, Kedambadi B. Surendra, Kedambadi Vishu Praveen Kumar, Panatale Loknath, Kodi Hansa, Venugopal, Agricultural Credit Cooperative Society member A. Dinesh, elders Kodi Thyagaraj, Indumati Ravindra, B.A. Surendra, K. Shekhar, Allanga Uthappa, Mattari Srinivas, K.M. Ismail, K.S. Annaiah, Kiran Manju, Anuja Rakesh, Kedambadi Prasanna Kumar, Ponneti Prasanna P.M. Ibrahim, Jimmy Kedambadi Harish, K. Shivakumar, Sathyabhama Soma and others participated in the meeting. After the meeting, Chettimani held a symbolic road blockade in the town for 10 minutes and shouted slogans against the report. They objected to the report and submitted a petition through the Panchayat Development Officer. On the same day, on the 13th, they decided to meet the District Collector and submit a letter of objection to the government.
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