5-hour Sadak Bandh disrupts highway traffic
The Hindu
Call to implement Constitutional rights of tribals in the forests
Hordes of cadres of the Left and various other Opposition parties, a clutch of farmers’ and mass organisations laid siege to the national and state highways at 21 different locations in the erstwhile composite Khammam district on Tuesday as part of “Sadak Bandh” demanding sanction of pattas (title deeds) for podu farmers as per the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006.
The five-hour “Sadak Bandh” called by the Podu Rythu Porata Committee at multiple locations spanning a length of 400-km in the predominantly tribal areas of as many as 16 districts, including Khammam and Bhadradri-Kothagudem districts, disrupted vehicular traffic at different places along the main thoroughfares.
The Sadak Bandh was organised to press for expeditious settlement of the long pending claims of tribals and other forest dwellers on forest lands and uphold their rights in accordance with the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, (FRA), 2006.
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