Cong stages walkout over tribal land sale

Congress members staged walkout in State Assembly on Friday while not being satisfied with the reply of Revenue Minister Prem Prakash Pandey over the issue of the District Collector allowing tribals to sell their land in the Janjgir-Chapma district.Raising the issue during the question hour, leader of Opposition T S Singhdeo demanded to know from the Minister why the permission for land sold by the tribals in Janjgir-Champa district was given by the District Collector. 

Pandey replied that no land of tribals can be purchased by the non tribals without the permission of the Collector and not an inch of tribal land had been purchased by non tribals till now. Meanwhile, in his written reply, the Minister informed that Cong member that  during 2008-09, a total of 201 tribal farmers applied to seek permission for selling their land while in 2009-10, a total of 161 tribal farmers applied.