CHAMARAJANAGAR: Soliga tribals from three settlements in Biligiri Rangana Betta (BR Hills) in Yelandur taluk staged protest against a move by the district administration and the Forest Department to notify a piece of revenue land as forest land.
The villagers took out a march and staged a sit-in at the gram panchayat office under the pouring rain. They demanded that the issue should be sorted out at the earliest. The protesters belonged to the Banglepodu, Yarakanagadde and Seegebettadapodu settlements.
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The Soligas claimed that revenue land on Survey No. 1.3.5.4 was granted to them in 1963 by then Chief Minister S Nijalingappa for cultivation and said that since then, they have been farming on that land. However, the piece of land was suddenly notified as forest land, they said.