Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa, who has consistently opposed the large-scale eviction of farmers and tribals from forest lands, told presspersons here on Tuesday that the Law Department had now opined that such farmers need not be evicted.
The Speaker said that following the legal opinion, if a Government Order was issued in this regard, it would facilitate regularisation of farming on forest lands.
“Once the GO is issued, the government can confer occupation rights on these farmers over the land they are cultivating. There are more than three lakh applications seeking regularisation in this category,” he said.
Stating that the work of renovating the Legislative Assembly hall would be completed by January 25, the Speaker said the next session of the legislature would be in February.
