Taking cognizance of more than 16,000 claims received for awarding lands under forest right recognition letter (pattas) the Collector Surguja R Prasanna instructed the concerned authorities to get the claims approved by special gram shabha by July 27 and further passed them by divisional level by July 30.
Then the proposals would have to be presented at district level, authorities informed on Thursday. In a meeting of district level forest rights committee, Prasanna instructed Sub Divisional Officers (Revenue), that all the applications received after survey should be verified again. In case of rejected applications, reasons should be mentioned and again they may be sent to Gram Shabha for approval. As per official informant collector instructed that land of all patta holders under the forest rights act, should be levelled and then house would be constructed on them under the Indira Aawas Yojana. It was informed in the meeting that so far in all 19,235 Pattas have been distributed in two phases. Out of it 4,287 cases have been sanctioned for land levelling and 4,391 cases for construction of house under Indira Aawas.
Claims and objection received from special backward tribes Pahadi Korva and Pando should be hundred percent verified by sub divisional officer and the beneficiaries whose claims and objections are rejected , in those cases sub divisional officer is supposed to get those papers verified write note on it himself, instructed collector. CEOs of the cooperative banks are also being instructed to expedite the procedure of making Kisan Credit Cards (KCC). Total 819 KCC have been made so far.