Re: Sweet Sixteen!!

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM, JyothiandRaj <jothiraj12@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Friends

What a Day!!!

It was in 1952 that government granted land to the Dalits in Thimmammanahalli of
Pavagada Taluk. Four Dalits lost 4 acres each totalling 16 acres of land to the tricks of the
caste forces in the village. The four people are Thimmkka W/o Babaiah: Muthyalappa S/o
Muthyalappa; AK Gangappa S/o Hanumantharayappa; AK Gangappa S/o Anjanappa. In the
year 1986 they went to the AC court under the PTCL Act (Prevention of Transfer of Certain
Land). In 1994 the court passed a verdict in favour of the Dalits. But the Caste people went
on appeal to the DC court against the judgment of the AC court in the year 1996. But the
same year the DC sent back the case to the AC to be decided there. In 2002 the AC court
once again decided in favour of Dalits. But the people kept quiet as they did not have
necessary support to take the caste people head on.

But after the formation of Dalit Panchayats things started changing rather fast. The case
was taken up. The entire team of Pavagada went to the AC to give actual possession of the
land to the Dalits. The AC was in jitters. He dithered endlessly. He wrote a letter to the
other officers but kept his signature pending. Our leadership asked for even an unsigned
letter. He was wondering why such a demand was put up. We informed him that even if he
did not sign the letter he and we know that he made the letter though we cannot use it
anywhere else. He gave a copy. We kept on pestering him till he finally signed the letter and
sent it to all other officers.

Today was the day. The entire officialdom was in the village from the morning. Our village
people and leaders were present in full strength. Survey was done, boundary was marked,
stones were laid and our people are in actual possession of 16 acres of land that was lost to
them for more than four decades.

Wow, what a saga this was for us and the achievement and satisfaction knows no bounds.
We are simply immersed in this pool of success. Hope we shall wake up before we drown
into it. There are many other challenges waiting for us in the world of realities.

TEAM REDS, Dalit Parliament, Jyothi and Raj



Rural Education for Development society

Shanthinagar

Tumkur 572102

Karnataka - India

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Raj's Mobile: ++91-9845144893

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