Ravi Thakur has urged the Tamil Nadu government to provide four hectares plus a job
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Chennai: Vice chairperson of National Commission of Scheduled Tribes (NCST) Ravi Thakur has urged the Tamil Nadu government to provide four hectares plus a job each to families of the 20 woodcutters killed in the Sesachalam forest firing.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle after eliciting the views of the top brass of the state government and victims’ families in the city, Thakur on Friday said, “The victims and other eligible ST’s should be given land in accordance with the Forest Rights (scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights) Act 2006. I have also asked the government to give a job each either to the wives or children of the 20 men killed in the incident based on their qualification.”
( Source : dc )
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