Kadar tribals to get homestead patta in ATR after struggling over two years
The Hindu
Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V. Senthil Balaji will hand over pattas to 21 Kadar tribal families today
Over two years of struggle by 23 families of the aboriginal Kadar tribe to get homestead patta in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) has come to an end.
Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V. Senthil Balaji will hand over pattas to 21 Kadar tribal families in an event at Valparai on Sunday, said officials who are in the know of the development.
They said that 21 out of the 23 families who had sought for patta will get lands inside the ATR as an alternative for their traditional settlement namely ‘Kallarukudi’ which was destroyed in a landslide in August 2019.
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