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CPI(M) for distribution of land to the poor

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“Ensure that all those who have applied for pattas get them,”

CHENNAI: The CPI(M) on Sunday urged the State government to take steps to distribute the land of temples, churches, Wakf Board and trusts to the poor in the City.

A resolution adopted at the Mylapore area conference said poor people who had been living on the land should be made the owners.

“The government should take over the land and distribute it to the low-income groups,” the resolution said.

Another resolution asked the government to remove the deadline for distributing the pattas.

“Ensure that all those who have applied for pattas get them,” it said.

Addressing the conference, CPI(M) MLA S. K. Mahendran said that though as many as 30,000 persons had applied for pattas in all five taluk offices in Chennai, only 1,724 had received the pattas, so far.

South Chennai CPI(M) secretary K. Beema Rao participated in th conference,

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